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| Got this off the Wire forum.
Off the field weve come a long,long way.Well done Saints.
Quote sport crazy="sport crazy"Matt Wood has played rugby for the last two years as a winger. With his club side, which has included Dougie for both of the seasons and Cal for one, he's won every piece of silverware availabvle -2 premiership titles, 2 NWC cups, a Lancahsire cup and the National cup.
He's proudly represented Warrington at Service area for each of those years but has never been offered a scholarship until now.
He was offerd a scholarship at Warrington which he and his family, wanted, were absolutely delight at and were in the process of accepting.
Matts great grandad played for Warrington, the family are all season ticket holders, want him to play for Warrington and are proud Warringtonians.
Saints in the meantime made contact also offering a scholarship, they were told what the situation was with Warrington in that Matt was going to accept their offer but still invited him down to the club.
Matt went to Saints with his family where they had a two hour long meeting during which they were given great detail of the scholarship programme, the setup at Saints and how they will develop Matt - at the end nobody could think of a single question to ask because everything had been covered so thoroughly. The family came out of the meeting highly impressed with Saints - with the overall thought that their scholarship is a well established proven programme, with experienced coaches that have been at the club for a number of years, it has produced first team players and most importantly Matt thought it would be right for him.
We stepped away from it all for a few days, spoke to a lot of people, had a lot of sleepless nights but decided that at this time Saints are the right club for Matt to develop any potential he has. Matts club coach, who has connections at Saints, never got involved or influenced any decision.
One of the considerations with Matt was to take him out of his 'comfort zone' at Warrington and put him in a new enviroment at Saints which he doesn't know with people he doesn't know. This is not only to develop him with his rugby but long term as a person as we know very few lads make the grade.
The hardest things I had to do was tell Warrington that Matt wasn't excepting their offer, in particular Peter Farrell, who scouted Matt, as he has been an absolutetly superb professional gentleman with Matt and the family.
Warrington are in the process of changing with some excellent staff working very hard to make it work. They have got both established and new local lads on the scholarship, who are exciting prospects.'" |
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| Quote Don Brennan="Don Brennan"Got this off the Wire forum. Off the field weve come a long,long way.Well done Saints.'" Excellent! |
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| Quote Saint Simon="Saint Simon"Excellent!'"
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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Mr Burns?'" indeed! |
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| Quote McClennan="McClennan"I've also heard that the Warrington youth set up isn't rated as highly as Saints is.'"
I spoken to Dougie a few months back, and he said pre-Bastian, our Service Area was shocking. No organization, poor training and just lack of professionalism. However, he said since Bastian has come in it's all changed and it's ace. I think it's a little obvious saying the Saints set up is rated higher than ours. I think in the coming years we'll see some top players come through that may raise a few eyebrows, but it seems Saints have an established conveyor belt that's producing the goods. |
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| Quote Ashmeister="Ashmeister"Apparantly the Rylands coach works for Saints
Coincidence ?
Just read another forum and people are raving about him. Apparantly he looks the business.
We've signed Matty Woods from Warrington aswell. Another u15 talent.'"
He does indeed, been there about 3/4 weeks I think. He also has high hopes for some of the lads that he coached at Rylands, although after speaking to him he did say that Saints where interested in a couple of these lads.
Went watching Rylands in the NWC final at Golborne, the one lad that stood out to me is the lad that has just signed for our friends from over the hill, very strong runner, aggressive, good defence and also very well disciplined. He played in the second row in this game but I believe he can play a couple of different positions. |
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| hi 
i also play for warrington and for all thoose who do want to know of the pottential of dougie charnock i can tell you as i have known him since 10 and played with him since school boys. dougie charnock is the best player that i have ever played besside. i also have been to district both years, dougies 1st year this year but i can tell you that he is as good as it gets the best player in all ages to come from warrington. just so that you know i aint going to be biassed towards one of my best mates but i can tell you now that he will be the best player at the under 15s age group at saint helens. |
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| Quote Robbie Rotten="Robbie Rotten"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, trying to influence youngsters like that
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Give over, he signs for Saints he signs up for yearly trips to Wemberlee, Old Trafford and so many medals he'll need an extension building.
He signs for the Wire he'll be arrested at 21 outside Panama Jacks and spend the rest of his days regretting not joining the world famous Charnock and Wood at Saints. |
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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Give over, he signs for Saints he signs up for yearly trips to Wemberlee, Old Trafford and so many medals he'll need an extension building.
He signs for the Wire he'll be arrested at 21 outside Panama Jacks and spend the rest of his days regretting not joining the Legends Charnock and Wood at Saints.'"
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| Quote getdownmonkeyman="getdownmonkeyman"Too soon?'"
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and for all thoose who do want to know of the pottential of dougie charnock i can tell you as i have known him since 10 and played with him since school boys. dougie charnock is the best player that i have ever played besside. i also have been to district both years, dougies 1st year this year but i can tell you that he is as good as it gets the best player in all ages to come from warrington. just so that you know i aint going to be biassed towards one of my best mates but i can tell you now that he will be the best player at the under 15s age group at saint helens.
