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| There has already been quite a lot of debate about signings for 2015, so with around a third of the year gone, which of the younger players have impressed and are likely to be future Wire players ? I have put them in groups for my own views;
Matty Russel
Ben Currie
Rhys Evans
Ben Evans
James Laithwaite
Brad Dwyer
Gene Ormsby
Glen Riley
GOB
The top group seems to have the most potential, but I am a bit disappointed with Currie, he doesn't seem to have kicked on really from last year. Rhys Evans is my top pick though, he looks better each week and I like his defence as well. Brother Ben seems a bit like a bottle of red wine, maturing slowly. I don't think he has yet reached the stage where you could predict he will be an automatic first team choice in the future though. Russel is exciting, but I am waiting to see if he can develop into a more rounded player, both attacking and defending.
I think there is a fair bit of uncertainty surrounding the second group of players. Dwyer was developing nicely last year, but I think the lack of playing time he has been given this year has not done him any favours. With the team in need of points, TS seems to have stuck with Monas at the expense of bringing Dwyer on. Ormsby is a handful but very raw, I don't think we will know about him until he has played quite a few games. Laithwaite is pretty solid, but doesn't seem to have kicked on as much as I thought he would.
And finally group three. Props develop very slowly, but I am not sure about Riley. If you swapped the physiques of Ben Evans and Riley, then Evans would be a top class prospect. Riley doesn't seem to be making the most of his size. And lastly GOB has failed to impress, despite the number of games played. He is now 22yrs old. Both these players are contracted to 2015.
In general I am a bit disappointed. Somebody on here said that the younger players had not kicked on as much as was expected, and much as I hate to admit it, I think that is a fair summary at this point in the season.
Thoughts ?
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| Quote: Rauhihi' offload "What ever happened to Alex Thompson?'"
Thompson now plays for Oxford.
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| I think developing talent for whatever sport is essentially a numbers game. For every e.g. 1,000 kids playing the sport you might get 3-4 elite sportsmen / women. This assumes that they have access to the right coaching and facilities. Yes, they have to have the correct genetic make up, but it is really a numbers game - it's a pyramid, and the bigger the base the more top flight players you get at the top. Back in 1998 Wire spent quite a lot of money to re-connect with the schools and clubs in the area. I can remember Paul Darbyshire was tasked with the job, and he said that out of 80 primary schools in the area, only 10 were playing rugby league. There must be a lot more than that now, but presumably we have paid the price for that over the last 10 years or so.
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| Why do wigan have a bigger pool than us, we are talking about players that are not from Warrington anyway, the like of Harrison, wood. Once we get to the acadamy structure players are signed from all over. We could say watkins came through the warrington system as he played for Latchford?. Its not about the pool its choosing the correct players and seeing the potential and developing the potential in the correct way.
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| We used to mine Cumbria quite a bit for talent. Rudd, Roper, Dave Elliot, Roskell, Chambers all came from that area (Kells I think) and proved to be very good players (though Ruddy never quite lived up to his considerable potential).
Don't know whether we no longer scout that area or the production line has dried up a bit but it certainly produced quite a bedrock of good amateur players who came through the ranks.
Not sure if that is sympotatic of the amateur game in general or not. Certainly watching promising young players in the A-team at Wilderspool and arguing about who would make it and who wouldn't was a wonderful way to spend a Friday evening.
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| its how we used to recruit, we'd identify lots of kids with potential, and throw a lot of money at them to sign with us on professional terms.
its one of the great stories Derbs told at a squadbuilder meeting many many moons ago.
kind of upsetting at the time to hear it.
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