just like we have some great young talent coming through, but the 15-17 year olds we have been able to attract as a SL club over the last 3 years will still take a good 4-5 years to become 1st team regulars. Now if we had been in SL for 14 years and were still relying on over the hill or never was overseas players then that would be beyond a joke!

think you will find richard horne broke into the first team the season before the merger and was a regular in the first team the following season

never stopped the likes of featherstone producing players in the championship/nfp

please name the 17 players that fev have created then that play in the super league errrrmmmm let me think tom briscoe thats it

tom briscoe never played for featherstone!

rich whiting and karl pratt come to mind, but you will probably not realise that being a bandwagoner

featherstone was just an example of a lower league club that manages to produce players, like the cumbrian teams

unlike hull kr fans who come out with the same excuse year after year that they are playing catch up with all the rest of superleague! are you going to be saying that in 5-10 years too!!

Moving beyond the predictable Hull & Rovers BS, while journeyman Australian & Kiwis are coming off the quota & blocking the path of young players, we'll never challenge the Aussies.
The quota should be four, with no exemptions (as far as contract law will allow).
England would get trounced by NSW at the moment, so we have some way to go.

We have ex players in superleague so how have we not created any players just because they don't play for us any more doesn't mean they haven't been created by hull kr

lol at a fan of a club that's just signed a 33 year old Australian for another year and someone the quality of Manu. Remind me again which NRL team Manu was ripping it up for prior to joining SL? All clubs are in the same boat, signing ageing or fringe NRL players to fill the gaps created by ineffective jnr development by clubs and the RFL.

You can;t blame clubs for wanting instant success, its what the fans (and to some degreethe RFL) judge them on.

Quite right, don't Esders, Ellis and Wilkin count?

ian kirke and kirk netherton as well so i would think were doing something right and as for a bandwagoner i been a season passholder for 21 years and iam only 26 so i dont think iam a bandwagoner far from it i have seen rovers through the bad times hopefully going to be better times unlike some of you dull fans that started going when you got to superleague or when you reach a final and come out with your old shopacheck shirts on