The recruitment and development of young players at Warrington will always receive criticism (rightly or wrongly) due to its track record of delivery and comparison with its peers less than 10 miles away.

We don't help ourselves at all. This Rylands team are among one of the best in the North West and have been unbeaten for about 2 years (I think). They have some very highly rated players. Warrington never even bothered to have a look and scout them from what I've heard. 13 to Saints and 1 to Wigan. We never offered any of them a contract. We have the biggest pool of talent in the region yet we are letting clubs from out of town and our rivals cherry pick who they ant first. We need to spend more time on the youth developing our own.

If only we were half as proactive at developing our academy and recruiting the best young players in the town as we are are being active on social media.

You can't categorically say that we never looked at them. Maybe we did, maybe we thought 'let some other schmucks bring em through and we'll buy the best ones off them later on with our incredible wealth'. Would probably make more economical sense. Looks like we concentrate more around the Oldham area - not been bad business in the past with Sculthorpe and Harris and aren't Thewlis and Dean from there?

Let's not forget this team is U14s not u16/17s - long way to go for any of these lads. Half of em will be lost to girls before the end of summer.

I'd be worried and disappointed if that was the mentality of the club.

If Saints are signing 14 players from one Warrington club what state is junior rugby in within St Helens?

I don't think we're in any position to question clubs like Saints and Wigan when it comes to their youth development etc.

I know their are people on here who think Wire can do no wrong however given their recent record of producing and developing youngsters I'd trust Saints judgement on this one over ours.

Fact is, we have simply not been nowhere near good enough in producing youngsters. SP and KF have admitted this themselves in a recent fans forum. I don't think it's unfair at all to pose the question why we weren't interested in any of these lads from within our own town yet our two major rivals were.

Do you really believe Warrington weren't interested in any of them and never attempted to recruit them?

Warrington never offered any of them a contract. Saints and Wigan got in first. That's 100% true.

I'm sure they've already rung you to explain and apologise.

I've already said...
Our club is aware and the board wasn't happy about it.

However there isn't anything they can do now about it...so what's the point in them trying to expline it?

https://twitter.com/BarlaCups/status/11 ... 6551007232 Barla U14 National Cup Final Rylands Sharks U14s V Lock Lane (Cas) Midday KO @ Batley Bulldogs - Mount Pleasant Ground Get behind the lads !!! COME ON YOU SHARKS !!!!

https://twitter.com/BarlaCups/status/11 ... 6551007232 Barla U14 National Cup Final Rylands Sharks U14s V Lock Lane (Cas) Midday KO @ Batley Bulldogs - Mount Pleasant Ground Get behind the lads !!! COME ON YOU SHARKS !!!!

Well if Lock Lane win we better make sure we're there to sign up all 17 of em.