Yes, that was really the point being made. Well done.

I keep forgetting were the only ones to have overseas players in our team

Surely there's space for Robbie Paul on the bench



Or Richard Moore?

Was Stuart Reardon Bradford academy as well? I think Richard Moore as well.

That team above would be top three never mind top eight.

Yeah, both of them.

Did Gilmour play in our academy?

he played in our first team

Long
Goulding
Hock
Hansen

I ran out of places.

It is a good side. Shame they're all not still playing for us.

Gilmour is still a link from Wigan's glory days. I remember a bit of fuss in the rugby league press in the mid 1990s, when Wigan announced that they had signed the 'best schoolboy in the country' who was a lad from Dewsbury (I think) Lee Gilmour. People were saying this was Wigan destroying the game, didn't they have enough junior clubs on their own doorstep, never mind going raiding the best prospects in Yorkshire, like they had done with Jason Robinson.

A few years later, there was another 'best schoolboy in the country' story. Leeds were trying to sign Iestyn Harris off Warrington, and Daryl Van de Velde wanted the 'best schoolboy in the country' who was a lad called Kevin Sinfield, thrown in as part of the deal. Gary Hetherington put his foot down and said no way under any circumstances let him leave. In the end a compromise was struck where Leeds offered a young Danny Sculthorpe who was on their books, to join Paul at Warrington, and a hefty transfer fee. Van de Velde moved quickly to use the transfer fee on signing the GB academy halfback Lee Briers from Saints.

At least a fair number of those guys won trophies with Bradford so the investment wasn't wasted.

Yep.