Does it not run in the family?? And what about all the other u20's in SL?? If they don't get a break how will we know if they are good enough>

I'd imagine there is some money available for such a contingency however what we dont know is who may be available as a loan signing. Theres no point spending money on a loan signing unless they offer an improvement over our own youth. Rather than the quick fix off a loan signing its probably better longer term to give our youth the experience even if it may affect results in the short term.

Correct. While a good player might be waiting for a first team chance somewhere, a la Widdop, unless there is somebody remarkable smewhere out there that we don't know of, anyone signed would be derided as crap and the club slagged for signing second or third raters.

We did previously seem to have enough money for a loan player (though the deal fell through). However, that was for a forward. I suspect that the implication now is that we don't have the cash to take a half back on loan. There are plenty of forwards on the fringe of Super League first teams who could do a job (and fairly cheaply). Half backs on the fringe of SL teams, though, are scarcely more likely to do a job than Southernwood - and to get one from Aus would be pricey in itself, and probably involve all sorts of additional expenditure (flights, accommodation, time spent on negotiation & admin...)

You'd do worse than to look at Jake Emmitt at Saints (prop). He's been on dual contract and ripping it up at Leigh, and when we've recalled him he's been quite good.