Johnson 20
Russell 23
King 20
Atkins 30
Penny 28
Ratchford 28
Patton 21
Hill 28
Dwyer 23
Sims 31
Currie 22
Hughes 24
King 21

Wilde 21
Smith 18
Cox 24
Bailey 31

Average age starting 13 = 24.5ish
Average age = 24.3ish

I'd argue that keeping hold of Daryl Clark is more important, but keeping hold of either of them would be an achievement.

I did actually work that out but couldn't be bothered typing it all down !

and if you did I would have hoped that you'd have gone to at least two decimal places 24.5ish and 24.3ish indeed!!! (only kidding Mike good work)

Ha ha !!
Good stuff

The mean average is a little over 24years, however the mode betters that at only 21! The median is 25 1/2 years.

Who are the players to come through the Warrington Academy to really establish themselve as a top super league player? Can only think of Currie myself.

Wigan's list is endless.

Warrington really an awful lot on buying players when they have shown promise at other clubs (Hughes, Hill, Clarke, Linhamn, Atkins, Westerman, Ratchford etc) Aswell as you Aussie imports.

Hopefully with your much improved Academy teams, Tony Smith can actually develop them and not have to really on buying. Some of the tries your kids scored on the weekend were stunning.

Sculthorpe? Harris?

Another decent measure of the great achievement from a young squad on Saturday would have been how many first grade games experience between them. There was a lot of experience missing. Gidley and Westwood alone is about 600first grade games +50ish rep caps. Add Sandow, Westerman and Clarke and we are at around 1100 first grade games worth of experience missing.
If we look back to say 2012 we probably had the most experienced 1-17 in the league but would have struggled with players like Briers, M Monaghan, Westwood etc all missing in the same game. I know it is a one off and one swallow does not make a summer but I hope that players like Patton, Johnson, Smith, Wilde (and others) can be given more regular first grade opportunities other than when injuries hit us. I am still wondering why Wilde was an unused sub in the saints game.

Go on then (I'm going off Wikipedia so could be wrong, some like Patton appear to be on the low side):

Johnson - 4
Russell - 58
T King - 19
Atkins - 294
Penny - 160
Ratchford - 210
Patton - 4
Hill - 195
Dwyer - 64
Sims - 278
Currie - 102
Hughes - 122
G King - 50

Wilde - 11
Smith - 4
Cox - 69
Bailey - 314

Starting XIII average = 120 games
17 average = 115 games

Any from this millennium?

Depends what you call top level. Mike Cooper, Paul Wood and Ben Harrison are probably the next best after them.