There are loads of holes mate, players loaned out as well as in. Players who never played a senior game etc could be argued but these are the squad listings on the site therefore were counted. The point is that clubs don't have 23-25 man squads nowadays.

I drive past Leeds Road playing fields to Uni on a morning and often see the Giants first team training there, I'd say usually there is around 30 players taking part in training

It is great to see so many on the team. I think that they really do have a good shot at being a decent team. I did not realize that Warrington was on the squad. What do you guys know about him?

I’m just pleased that Giants have a competitive team at long last. How many years of mediocre performances was it before 2006?

The bonus of all this has been the emergence of good prospects for the England international squad.

Looking forward to seeing Grix getting a run of SL games at full back. He was very good for us there.

Shame it wont last viewtopic.php?f=2&t=478005 Not a single one from Hudds! Or is that part of the plan? Let other clubs develop them and then flash the cheque book again?

Shame it wont last viewtopic.php?f=2&t=478005 Not a single one from Hudds! Or is that part of the plan? Let other clubs develop them and then flash the cheque book again?

Quote: Conorgiantsfan "I don't think that's necessary - we have a England Centre who's gone through the academy, we have Elliot Hodgson, Micheal Lawrence and many more young players that have come through OUR academy.'" I see the cheque book is out and the season hasn't even started yet news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 336877.stm

Quote: Conorgiantsfan "I don't think that's necessary - we have a England Centre who's gone through the academy, we have Elliot Hodgson, Micheal Lawrence and many more young players that have come through OUR academy.'" I see the cheque book is out and the season hasn't even started yet news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 336877.stm

I quite like how jealous supporters are desperately looking at ways to have a pop or a dig at the Giants.

Top effort I say. During the course of the season these lads will get the opportunities and those that don't will at least benefit from training in a full-time professional environment.

Not everyone can be as diplomatic and righteous as you are cadoo.

Are Hudds the club you are supporting this month?

I don't think that's very fair.

No it's fair and he's right too.
Not everyone can be as righteous and diplomatic as me, but that would be going off topic and derailing the thread unnecessarily.

Back on topic, I hope that Luke Robinson can kick on at hooker after his impressive displays in an England shirt. A very talented player and one I would have love to have seen come through at Wigan during this period under Mike maguire and Shaun Wane. Interesting to note that Leroy Cudjoe has been given the number three shirt. Here's hoping we'll finally get a decent British centre.

It's all irrelevant TBF.

They are only alotted numbers. It doesnt mean the players, say numbers 25 and over, earn more. And there's a good likelyhood that if you have a 31 man named squad that 5 or 6 of the players will never see the 1st grade.

Saying that at Leeds this year we have a 31 man squad and I wouldnt mind seeing the majority get game time at some point because of the quality down there.