Quote: FearTheVee "Warrington's 1st team squad is 30 players, ours is 34. But taking the top 30 (i.e. ignoring Josh Jones, Joe Greenwood, Warren Thompson and Jordan Hand).
Wire have perhaps 16 "experienced" players as below, plus Chris Riley (read Jamie Foster) and Richie Myler (read Jonny Lomax).
B Hodgson
M King
C Bridge
J Monaghan
L Briers
A Morley
M Monaghan
G Carvell
L Anderson
B Westwood
B Harrison
M Higham
J Clarke
P Wood
S Grix
R Atkins
then the likes of Mitchell, Cooper, Blythe, McCarthy, Evans then kids.
Saints are pretty much the same, with 16 experienced players plus Jamie Foster (Chris Riley) and Jonny Lomax (Richie Myler)
Paul Wellens
Ade Gardner
Michael Shenton
Sia Soliola
Francis Meli
Leon Pryce
Kyle Eastmond
Josh Perry
James Roby
James Graham
Tony Puletua
Jon Wilkin
Chris Flannery
Scott Moore
LMS
Paul Clough
We then have the likes of Wheeler, Ashurst, Dixon, Magennis, Armstrong, Gaskell, Makinson who have played a fair bit of first team, then kids.
The difference between us and Wire isn't squad depth, it's number of injuries.
Wigan's squad depth is tremendous because they have the best youth system in the UK game, and fair play to them for that.'"
I agree with much of what you say regarding squad depth, not much in it between top 4-5 teams. However, I don't believe Wigan have best youth system in UK. What about ours under Mike Rush, must have been the best in the past 5 - 6 years. Also atm Wigan's 20's are good but our 18's are by far much better, & are probably the best 18's in the whole comp.
