They didn’t. This just proves that Donnytroll knows nothing about RL.

The O'neils, Andy Currier, the eyre's, the hulmes and the mylers inc. Richie who still plays today.

All came through after Widned got a run of success in the 1970's.......

There we go

Most clubs didn't have that much home grown talent back then, in1975 Warrington used 40 players and only 8 were from Warrington. Ten came from St.Helens. Salford had one Salford born player - Sammy Turnbull, Lancashire clubs had a good number of Wigan lads in their teams. At that time Swinton had 10 saints/wigan players and only 4 swinton lads.

In Lancashire the Saints/Wigan clubs successes fostered great interest in the playing of the game in those towns and their amateur set ups have fed that success for decades, that in turn attracts more talented youngsters into the game from those towns for them to continue winning the cups.

Obviously an ambitious Warrington have tried hard for years to replicate those production lines but haven't got anywhere near the historic and effective Saints/Wigan set ups.

Frank Mylers 1970's Widnes had 25 Widnes born players delivering success and that went on for some time, into another generation of great local born Widnes players, who kept that success going and the cups coming in in the 1980's when Jonathan Davies played for them. There's little RL talent there now.........

All SL clubs have player development "foundations" paid for by SKY so they all but Salford run academies, the problem is all the best young talent want to go to the Wigan's, Saints and Leeds of this world. How do you "do enough" if your best local kids Like Watkins as a young salford academy lad, are intent at signing at the top clubs???

Don't know why you are going back nearly 50 years when I made reference to the Superleague era.

Because these clubs like Leeds. Wigan and Saints came into the Superleague era with already strong local player development set ups as they won lots of trophies and still do, and an historic ability as big successful clubs to attract young players away from the places they were actually produced.

As I say Leeds didn't produce Callum Watkins, Salford did, the way things work out now is quality youngsters often don't sign to the local clubs. Rob Burrow wasn't a Leeds lad but they also signed him to their academy. These examples are not really "Player development" more like rich clubs poaching talent produced elsewhere....

Quote: FlexWheeler "This sintellins team…. Everyone else is so crap they’re not even tested and can cruise around in 2nd gear. Catalans will bend over, like all the pretender teams do in the grand final.'" so wish for a similar game https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... lans/55263

Quote: FlexWheeler "This sintellins team…. Everyone else is so crap they’re not even tested and can cruise around in 2nd gear. Catalans will bend over, like all the pretender teams do in the grand final.'" so wish for a similar game https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... lans/55263

as it stands Catalan are the best team in the league,they won the hubcap !!!
That makes 1 trophy to Stains and 1 to Catalan which was the leaders shield thus making them the Leaders.

This is the thing Jason. In soccer the top club would be just that.

In Rugby league you can be crowned the top club from fourth place albeit didn't that used to be from as much as 16th. place?

Wrencat will remember Dewsbury beating Leeds from 8th. to be champions in the early seventies...........

League Leaders is/should be the real prize

Easy to produce $hitloads of academy prospects when you're from a RL hotbed, have a sugar daddy owner and have won loads of trophies isn't it?

Hope that smoke doesn't burn your ass.

They won the what?

In the whole new Super Dooper era, the season regular is just a qualifying event for the play offs and means nothing.
Trinity proved this, albeit at the wrong end of the table during the "every minute matters" era, a time when only the last 5 minutes of the MPG were actually important.
FWIW, dont remember the Dewsbury beating Leeds from 8th, not sure that I was old enough.

I get that Donnyman,I was only pointing out that the stains have been telling everyone that they will win everything this year, but they have not.