How many have canterbury bull dogs developed in 25 years??


If Oldham find a gem then obviously big clubs will be interested and overlook their own youth players for the golden boy.

There are lots of amateur and semi pro clubs who are also scouting for the best in their area.

Look across SL and how many halfs have been developed by their own club, Wigan have a Saint directing them about the park, yet our fans are sniffy about him not being good enough. Not good enough for Saints but good enough for GF winners.

We set impossible expectations.

No he always a #7, but strangely never played there for Saints in his two Wembley finals with them.

Sure I read in his book he played centre for army/raf.

That was Rugby Union.

It was a while ago I read it tbh.

Didn,t Saints force him out to the centres and he left the club because of it.

Saints are really struggling for the next 9 at the club below James Roby. They have signed a number of potential half backs and hookers amongst the crop of u16's recently signing for the academy but obviously it will be a number of years before they are ready for the first team.

I think Eastmond was the last 7 we developed but Offiah got his mits into him and turned his head to RU. The rest is history. Lance was a panic buy when Eastmond told saints he was leaving - he was bigged up by his agent as the man to fill our half back vacancy - as a World Cup winner with wealth of experience, we bought it.

It's a real shame that it didn't work out for us and him, but I doubt the club will ever offer an overseas player a 4 year contact ever again.

Yes they signed Bob Prosser from Wales RU and Tommy Bishop from Blackpool.

I do like the look of Rob Fairclough, he is a real tough little scum half, a bit scrawny at the moment but he will probably fill out with full time coaching / conditioning. As with all academy kids it's difficult to tell how they will turn out. What are your thought on Joe McSperitt?

I think Brown puts the anonymous display in the halves down to a poor pack performance on the basis that it is very difficult to look good behind a beaten pack;
[i"To help them make life easier we need our forwards to do a little better," Saints coach Nathan Brown said. "I didn't think we were as good through the middle as we've been in the last five or six weeks.

"Hull have got some good forwards but I'd like to think we could have done better. I thought they rolled down the field very easily."
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It's a chicken and egg situation though. Yes the pack dominating makes the halfbacks job easier, but if poor kicks allow the opposition a simple, quick start to the set, then no matter what our forwards do they're gonna get a role on and make ground and put yet more pressure on the kickers. This limits the space halfbacks can work in, but they aren't creating the gaps to put people through.

Adam Swift is playing 6 today for Rochdale #justsaying

Saints have time off this week, few lads gone away.

I would have though it would have been better to approach this two weeks as if we were playing each weekend, given that we will have another week off for the CC final in a few weeks' time, since we need to be working on our halfback combination for the next match. But I suppose that would have been to fly in the face of the culture at Saints which isn't to work too hard I guess, especially when we actually need to.

The low meters made would seem to bear out some truth in the pack not doing their role.

Flanagan and Mose had the best average gain in the pack. But Mose had low number of carries, slightly more tackling than usual for him

Good idea, they can all cone back approaching the remaining games as a mini season with new targets rather than being stuck in a rut.