Nosey parker carried a story on Monday that cas head of youth development and u19 coach had been tempted along the m62 by the wire anyone heard anything

I’m encouraged by any attempt to increase the success of the youth programme - we’ve had plenty of talented young players who haven’t really reached heir potential despite looking as good or better than their contemporaries in other clubs. The failure of many may well be with the weakness of the bridge between the youth and first team structures. Price has already been addressing this.

One issue that makes this story a bit suspect is that IF we are to poach Cas’s head of youth we’d need him living this way. We’ve already seen that Price has identified a prior issue where the first team coaches didn’t have any input into the youth sessions which are taken at night. Our first team coaches didn’t have that opportunity (or maybe motivation?) since they lived over the Pennines. I’m really encouraged by the changes Price is making behind the scenes, I just hope he’s got the actual x-factor when it comes to coaching the team to grand final success. Maybe Henderson and Leulai will provide a nice balance in managing the players to complement Price’s hard-line style.

Story suggested they were indeed upping sticks and relocating

Done deal, pete riding your new head of youth

Sounds like a good deal for us.

He joined Cas ahead of the 2014 season and was well respected for his work at Hudds prior to that. Good recruitment I think. www.castigers.com/article.php?id=3811 So is that Phil Jones on his way then? What about Peter Farrell too.

He joined Cas ahead of the 2014 season and was well respected for his work at Hudds prior to that. Good recruitment I think. www.castigers.com/article.php?id=3811 So is that Phil Jones on his way then? What about Peter Farrell too.

Phil Jones left the club last week, on his twitter feed cited that he was "moving onto pastures new"...

Words from the man himselfhttp://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sport/wolves/15897186.Plan_to_make_Wire_academy__the_best_around_/rl

We always seem to talk a good game when it comes to our youth, but don't seem to have the same volume of young players coming through as Wigan / Leeds / Saints etc etc. Hopefully this will be the start of an improvement in this area.

Saints?.... they are worse than Wire!
3 decent players, two hookers and Briers, in 2 decades...4 if you want to include scouse Jammer...who left before hitting his peak.

List ours Rubber.

A little harsh on Saints maybe... they’ve had some superstars - Cunningham, Wellens, Roby, Eastmond. Then they’ve had some ‘good’ players Percival, Makinson, Greenwood, Morgan. They’ve certainly had more success with their youth than we have. I think the likes of Laithwaite, Evans and Co may have become more established players by now under Saints. Possibly. They had the raw talent.

Regrding James Graham, I’m not sure he was a product of their youth system. Didn’t he sign from Waterloo RU?

Harris Sculthorpe...come on how far are we having to go back...I can top trump you on anything Saints.

I thought you said 2 decades.

Exactly.
Now I think we know Saints and Wire are both shat at youth development.