Are they? which ones are they then?

Frank Watene 32

David Larder 33

Davis Wrench 30



There's a lot hovering around the 29 mark too, who aren't exactly long term prospects. With no academy in place, you will be totally reliant on other clubs to get replacements.

Sam Thompson looked okay at Hull KR last night.

I wouldn't be concerned about him. Although I didn't see the game, many who did were of a different opinion.

Well if you think them three as good as they are, are our best players then you are deluded.



so will you if the majority of the academy players arent going to be good enough or ready enough for next year.



Question for you - if you dont manage to tick any boxes on the playing field for a SL licence - next years squad - do you think it will be mainly full of lads for your academy team? Or will you be looking at getting in proven players?

This guy is hilarious... he has all the perspective of someone living in a box.



My mentioning your all or nothing mentality this year stems from the fact that you decided to get rid of your academy sides in order to pump the money into the first team. A fact no-one quibbles with on your board.

If you need to run a team as strong next year you will need the same finances and probably won't be able to run your academy again meaning that you won't tick that box which in the opinion of many means that you won't be flavour of the month with the RFL. Youth structures are important to them in terms of you developing players for Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield and and for us to develop players for Saints, Warrington and Wigan.





As for our young players the likes of Saints and Warrington were and are sniffing around them presently in terms of Ostick and Flynn, so they consider them good enough. Yates is quality and will be fanastic with a few more seasons under his belt but managing their confidence is paramount. We have tried throwing players into the first team and getting them to play every match and it doesn't do them any good.

Wilkinson is a man renowned for developing youth players so we'll trust his opinion over yours any day of the week.