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Re: Grow your own : Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:48 pm  
Is it not so much a failure to produce good quality players, but more effectively managing their transition into Superleague? We have had several ‘bright young stars’ come through and then a season or two later they’re on their way out.

Maybe playing a full strength team should be saved for big derby games and there should always be two or three young ones in the seventeen.
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Re: Grow your own : Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:02 am  
sally cinnamon wrote:
The only measure of success is whether we win the Grand Final. Any club can roll out its Academy players in the first team, it doesn't make it a success if they win feck all.

If we were fielding this all-home grown starting 13 in 2021, where do you think it would finish in SL? Would this be proof that our Academy was better than Wigans or Saints?

Gareth O'Brien
Rhys Williams
Toby King
Rhys Evans
Gene Ormsby
Riley Dean
Dec Patton
Mike Cooper (c)
Brad Dwyer
Ben Evans
Joe Philbin
Ben Currie
Harvey Livett


You misunderstand me. I am saying we only have four players in the squad that have come from the Academy that are of the right quality, the rest that were given opportunities have gone as they were simply not good enough. Perhaps I should have worded my post differently, particularly as the likes of Dec Patton has played over 100 games for us now.

So I am saying we need at least 8-9 players of the Currie, Philbin, King, Cooper quality in order to match the likes of Wigan and Saints. That is the gap that needs to be filled, and it's a big one.
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Re: Grow your own : Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:14 am  
Robwire wrote:
Is it not so much a failure to produce good quality players, but more effectively managing their transition into Superleague? We have had several ‘bright young stars’ come through and then a season or two later they’re on their way out.



I don't think so. A new academy player coming in still needs to lift his game to SL standard so they are simply falling at the last hurdle. Most of them will kick on to some extent and get games in the hope / expectation of improving further. If the coaching staff had failed then you would expect that some of our rejects would be picked up by other clubs and brought to SL standard, but I can't really think of many examples over the last 10 years or so ( possibly GOB ?). It will be interesting to see what happens to Harvey Livett. He probably falls into this category and played just under 50 games for us. But he was loaned to HKR this year and has now been released with rumours that he will be picked up by Salford.
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