in australia rugby league is the pinnacle of sport, hence it is what juniors are all aiming at.

kids who are good at sport tend to be good at all sports.

in AUS the best athletes go into RL

in UK the best athletes go into football where the big money and glamour is.
next they would aim for union for the same reasons, and then probably cricket.
beyond that comes RL

no glamour and less financial benefit.

obviously the southern hemisphere are going to produce more RL players than this country.

why is anyone surprised?

The welsh club have been around 5 years not 100 days. This thread is not about 'home grown' it is about using fed trained players. There are plenty of good players on loan in SL. There are SL level youngsters dual registered / available for loan. Last year the Giants, finishing 3rd, had loan players like Scott Moore and Lee Mossop. Ben Jones Bishop at Quins / Cooper at Cas are examples of the players who could be available.

The RFL have made it too easy for Crusaders to knee jerk and sign from the NRL. They need to exert more pressure on clubs like wakey to get the number of non fed trained down.

As I've stated before Wakefield does a good job of producing professional players but they don't have the means to keep them when the bigger clubs wave their Visa Debit Cards in Trinity's direction.

Blaymire, George, Murphy, Morton, Brough, Gledhill, Davey, Pitts, Bibb, Ellis, Westwood, Mason, Feather, Ferguson, Snitch are all playing top flight rugby at present. There are a number of young lads in Wakefields squad who WILL play over the next few weeks.

There are too many ex Wakefield players now plying their trade in the lower divisions to mention.

As a Wakefield fan I am sometimes disappointed at the number of Non Fed trained players in our team and would like us to reduce that number. In past years we have had sporadic bursts of junior development followed by a couple of barren years, that’s not good enough!

John Kear and his staff have worked very hard to instigate system that recruits a continuous flow of talented players who feed into the junior setup at Trinity and last year we saw the fruits of that new system for the first time.

Over the next few years the challenge to the club is to continue their investment in youth and not to fall back to a Boom n Bust scenario. If they do that then Wakefield will reduce their reliance on Non Fed Players and will steadily fill the team with home grown Academy talent. Producing greater numbers of players will also allow Wakefield to remain competitive even in the face raids from the bigger clubs.

All this is taking time but has been underway for about three years now.

What I dislike about GiantJo's comments are that they are totally insincere and despite the noises she makes she has no interest in the overseas numbers and is just trolling for a bite from Trinity followers. It’s quite laughable that a pseudo Giants fan should point the finger at another club when Huddersfield have a ridiculous record when it comes to producing their own talent, with just a handful of recent successes to point out as examples.

I have recently been watching a tape of lancs v Yorks U11s from 1987 (featuring Saun Long and Paul Cooke) plus Leeds v warrington at Wembley, and it's so sad that maybe only three players made it to SL level. The skill amd enthuisiasm is tremendous (pushing in the scrum too) so where did all this talent go? Were they shunted aside for the Aussie quick fixes?

If you watched a game of inter-counties Under 11s from any sport twenty years ago and compared how many had gone on to make a pro career out of it, then three is probably a decent return to be honest.

The drop-out rate for elite kids in all sports is alarmingly high, for a whole number of reasons not least they grow up and decide they'd rather be doing other things.

Wildthing, I meant on this thread. Most of your boys and girls are, as you say, quite fair in their assessment of the match. But there are a few (including the o/p) trying to find legal fault in the WC to justify the loss.

Down at the now defunct Celtic Crusaders, we always thought quite highly of your lot.

I know, but even so...

The OP isnt a wakey fan he's/she's a hudds troll who's mission in life appears to be to wind wakey fans up.

And who has spread his mission to the VT after being banned from the Wakey board.

Raising the point that 23 of 34 players in a European Superleague game are non fed trained + a guy from RU is a legitimate subject for the VT. Though regretably uncomfortable for some.

Yes you are raising a valid point, a tad unfair on the Crusaders though, but both clubs are within the rules.

However, even though you deny it, once again you have started a thread bemoaning the Wakefield club.

Did you start a thread when Wigan cheated regarding the S.C or when Hull F.C fielded an illegible player in the C.C?

Sorry, that was a rhetorical question.









Of course you didn’t.

Correct!

Correct!

And you would know that because? oh I forgot so sorry

Apologies didn't realise I was feeding a well known troll, quite obvious now.