haha only 4 homegrown so that wud mean 11 of the starting 13 wud hav 2 be homegrown epic fail

where are you getting this from ? :S

Oh no have I been pwned? my bad

Tru dat

Anyway I'm sure it'll get answered in the morning

Leon should get the number 6.

no way can bulls afford to pay out his contract

They can if an agreement is reached with Saints. If they are happy to release him to get someone else his contract could be cancelled by mutual consent couldnt it?

Unlikely i know but if both sides are keen to do a deal for its own reasons, anything can happen

Can't see Saints letting Leon Pryce walk cheaply, we are more likely to get him back next year...

Regarding home grown rules for 2011; [urlhttp://www.superleague.co.uk/page.php?id=346[/url

CLUB TRAINED PLAYER RULE

engage Super League XIII is likely to have the most club trained players taking part in the competition for nearly five years thanks to a new rule introduced for 2008.

The new ‘club trained player’ rule stipulates that each club must have at least five players who are aged under 21 years or are graduates from their own academy system in their 25 man first team squad during 2008.

The table below shows how these figures will increase between now and 2011.

Year..............................2011
Home-Grown Players.........8
UK-trained players............12
Overseas trained players....5


so, for 2011 [iat the moment [/iI would suggest;

[uHome grown players[/u;12
Halley, Sykes, Langley, Whitehead, Koppy, Donaldson, Finigan, Addy, Southenwood, Olibison, Crossley, Wardle,

[uUK trained players;[/u 8
Scruton, Lynch, Godwin, Platt, Sculthorpe, Walker, Aincough, (?) Elima (quota exception?)

[uOverseas trained;[/u 4
L'estrange, Hall, Orford, Kearney, (room for one signing or retain Menzies)

Outside of the 25 at the moment but still with the club for 2011 at the moment, with a 2010 squad number (some might be released some retained outside the 25;)
Worrincy, Crookes, Sherriffe, Reardon, O'Brien, T Burgess, G Burgess, Tate,

This gives us a 25 man first team squad that satisfies the rules, my reading of them is that the 12 uk trained players can be home grown, so we need 20 home grown/uk trained a minimum of 8 of which are "home grown". Correct me if Im wrong. I reckon we will have 12 home grown at least. There will be some movement in and out of the 25 squad obviously as and when.

I meant 2012..

And the bold bit is where we are losing ground on the top sides.

Where as Leeds, Wigan, Saints keep their best youngsters (in the main) we have lost some of ours - ala, Fielden, Peacock, Leon, Burgess, Atkins, Bridge.

I know these players all left for varying reasons and stages of development, but this doesn't seem to happen as much with the other sides. I think we may have just realised that homegrown players (especially the top ones) are worth more to us than we previously realised.

Exactly, which is the crux of it. And why we have shifted the emphasis to this in the last couple of years, but we're playing catch up now in a game of junior developement where there are no guarentees as to what you produce.