Just a variation on the threads about overseas players/home grown players in first teams and whatever. Can you name a team of players who came through the academy of your club, and are either still there, or still playing rugby league elsewhere?

This has been done in the past but not for a year or so and it's interesting to see the names who have come through certain clubs because some of the teams who get criticised for bringing in loads of overseas players, actually have strong home grown credentials when you look at it like this (eg Wakefield with Ellis, Westwood, Mason). If you did it in football West Ham who are full of overseas journeymen, would have a cracking team with Lampard, Cole, Johnson, Ferdinand, Defoe and so on.

Some players could count for more than one team because they transfer from one clubs Academy to another, Chris Bridge (Hudds-Bradford), Ryan Atkins (Bradford-Wakefield). I would say that the second club can only count them if they hadn't made a first team appearance at the time they signed them.

This sort of exercise shows the health of a clubs youth development system and it shows how strong a team would be if there were no transfers or imports and clubs simply had to produce their own talent to succeed.

I will start with Warrington (others can help with the gaps)

1 Riley
2 Penny
3
4 Sibbit
5 Blythe
6
7 Hulse
8 Cooper
9 Mark Gleeson
10 Wood
11 Mitchell
12 McCarthy
13 Harrison

14 Pickersgill
15
16
17

a few years ago this would have had Harris, Sculthorpe, Wainwright and Hilton

Is Ian Sibbit still playing?

Probably missed a few that should be in there, but:

Wellens
Foster
Wheeler
Tyrer
Lomax
Briers
Eastmond
Graham
Cunningham
Clough
Dixon
Moore
Roby

Emmitt
Matty Smith
Magennis
Ashurst

Yes there's talk that Sibbit is going to Bradford for 2011

Leeds

Mathers

Broughton
Smith
Walker
Hall

McGuire
Burrow

Bailey
Diskin
Scruton
Jones-Buchanan
Ablett
Sinfield

Murrell
L Burgess
Clarkson
Ward

Very much off the top of my head, but a decent 17 all of whom have featured heavily in SL this season while omitting the likes of Ashley Gibson and Jason Netherton.

For Cas:

Owen (Cas)
Thompson (Cas)
Shenton (Cas -> Saints)
Arundel (Cas)
Pryce (Hunslet)
Kain (Fev)
Orr (Quins -> Cas)
Huby (Cas)
Godwin (Bulls)
Lynch (Bulls)
Elima (Catalans -> Bulls)
Watts (KR)
Westerman (Cas)
--
Lunt (Hudds)
Holmes (Cas)
Walker (Cas)
Massey (Cas)
Boyle (Salford)
Gledhill (Wakey)
Davies (Cas)
any others?

No Morley & Carvell?

Thats what happens with picking these teams, its amazing who you forget!
Was Gareth Raynor a Leeds Academy player as well?

Sort of.

IIRC he came to the club at 20/21 from Castleford Panthers asking for a trial. Not sure if he had been in anyone elses Academy prior to that?

Dowes?

Ahead of Morley & Carvell?

there should be a section for "honorary mentions" for good players who have gone onto make it elsewhere that wouldn't get in the first choice team, eg Wigan would have blokes like Luke Robinson, Martin Aspinwall

Off the top of my head:

1. Briscoe
2. Aspinwall
3. Wild
4. Brown
5. Hodgson
6. Sam Tomkins
7. Coyle
8. Prescott
9. McIllorum
10. O'Carroll
11. L Farrell
12. Joel Tomkins
13. O'Loughlin

14. Jewitt (IIRC)
15. Tuson
16. Hargreaves
17. Gilmour (IIRC)

How could you possibly consider someone outed as a softcock by a Frenchman ahead of TMFMISL? Seriously.

not easy for huddersfield but just about managed a seventeen.

marcus st hilaire
jermaine mcgillivary
michael lawrence
martin gleeson
leroy cudjoe
chris bridge
tom hemingway
eorl crabtree
phil joseph
andy raleigh
oliver wilkes
jon grayshon
adam hayes

james martin
paul mennell
paul jackson
alex brown