Quote: Wires71 "I don't disagree but we haven't we been told for 15 years+ that our Academy is doing well?
Trouble is other clubs have first dibs over the most promising players due to their pedigree.'"
Do they really have first dibs, or is it more that we don't put enough effort into our attempts to sign and nurture promising youngsters as Wigan or Saints do?
Personally, if I was a multi millionaire in charge of our club, the first thing I'd have done would have been setting up the best RL academy in the country, with the best qualified coaches and conditioning teams - The only common denominatior in GF winners is that they all have top class, academy players in the heart of their sides - The actual head coaches have all been nothing special, just been lucky to have been at clubs with great youth set ups.