I agree, Sinfield and Widdop were great yesterday. They really clicked as a partnership, resulting in some of the most exciting attacking play I've seen England/GB produce in many years. I genuinely thought we could score every time we received good field position.

I've always been a Myler fan so at the minute him & Widdop for me.

I've only seen him play a few times but he has impressed me. I think he moves a team around really well.

Saints could do with someone like him. We'd be happy to take him off your hands

And how many of hear are regular half backs.

Luke Gale - plays half back but is no where near good enough for England. Would happily see him leave Bradford!

Stefan Ratchford - fantastic potential, but he's played all over the place this year which is my point in the OP

Lee Gaskell- as above

Rangi Chase- don't make me laugh. He's not developed he decided he was English when he realised he wasn't good enough for NZ

Liam Sutcliffe - great prospect. How much has he played at 6 (genuine question to Leeds fans) grey prospect for future 6 shirt though.

Stevie Ward - how much has he seriously played at 6. I've only ever seen him play in the bavk row. but speaking to Leeds fans they think he's a 6. Again there's the problem.

Marc Sneyd - like this guy a lot. But played half season at FB for some strange reason.

Gareth O'Brien - Potential but just doesn't seem to cement his place down.

Richie Myler - regular 7, but yet to convince me he's a test 7. Hope he proves me wrong and has plenty of time to do it.

Sam Powell - again great potential but played a bit at hooker. But I like him a lot.

Ryan Hampshire - handful of games, but could be an excellent half back IF he isn't moved to FB

Joe Mellor- like Mellor a lot

Danny Craven - decent player for Widnes

The thing I kept finding my self typing over and over again was potential, but not playing there regularly which is half my point. Not saying we should be creating international half backs, but in 5 years only one half back has come through who has any sort or chance of getting into the England squad. The rest are playing all over the place which is half my point. Why aren't clubs giving the lights of Sneyd/Gaskell/Rathford the half back shirt?

Sinfield played the best game by a GB/England halfback in a long time. I doubted him as a world class stand off, but I take it back. Based on this tournament if anything I'd wonder where all these defence-splitting plays have been for Leeds.

In terms of developing halfbacks my main bugbear is the obsession with pace and running games. Quite frankly a halfback who can run but not pass, control a set of 6 and have a good kicking game is not a halfback. England seem to produce an endless stream of halfbacks who couldn't organise the proverbial. Sinfield just showed you don't need to be quick at all to be a playmaker.

It wouldn't surprise me one day tbh. Unless Green goes at the end of the year I can see him moving on. We certainly have a lot of options coming through at Wigan in the halfback positions so he's got a job on.

If only Joe Mellor hadn't lost a yard or two of pace after a terrible knee injury a few years back I think we would have seen him on the field yesterday. He's still a good player but he could have been great.

I think a lot of the 'apprenticeship' time that half backs of yore had were spent in the 'A' team. Perfect place to develop their game after coming up from the colts. With a mix of back up/fringe players, players coming back from injury, older colts & traillists. That was a great backgrounding for much up and coming talent, now we have a fecked up situation of kids needing to be fully SL ready and lead a team around by the time they are 19 or left languishing getting the odd easy cup game and/or being dual coded/loaned out at teams that may or may not use them anyway..
I can't see any solutions to our problems tbh

Under the current model the season-long loan would seem to be the best option. For players leaving the Academy due to age, a year in Australia even at junior level would be a fantastic way to gain experience as well.

Harry Tyson-Wilson. Could potentially (ep, I know that doesn't mean it's guaranteed) be the next big thing.

Andrew Dunneman left Canberra when they didn't give him the head coach job.

He is the best halves coach in the game after maybe Andrew and Mathew Johns.

The abandoning of the reserve comp in favour of DR has hit HB development more than any other position, Championship Clubs wont take ' pivot ' positions on DR as when they are called back it disrupts the whole team

So end DR and replace it with more season loans, simple as