Until he hard a military hair cut, that sounds like Rhys Evans.

We definitely need at least two new signings next season. Which team in any sport has been successful by keeping the same team even the best team ever IMO, Barcalona buy players each year or it becomes to predictable and teams will find you out and so far this season that's what's happened. You need to freshen things up each year IMO.

Or promote young, up and coming players from your junior sides that have been trained by the club and therefore should slot in seemlessly when the time is right?

You are far too sensible for this Site. Far better to pass on completely unfounded rumours about NRL players whose current salaries no UK teams can currently afford.

I thought the next thing on his shopping list was going to be london broncos. (Or did they mean stetson and 6 shooter when they said he was discussing a cowboy outfit?)

Jon Wilshere
Alan Hunte
Adam Neal
Ian Sibbit
Mike Wainwright
David Highton
Vinnie Anderson

*cough*

Ratchford
Myler


off the top of my head

We've only promoted Ben Currie and he played in games last year too.

The young players just get slagged off for making mistakes anyway.

Welcome to Warrington.

I'm not saying we are doing it, but, that we should be doing it, or at least trying to do it as it's more sustainable in the long run. Someone mentioned barcelona fgreshening up tyeir squad regularly butr the also have a high proportion of players trained 'in house'? They didn't buy Messi for £100m from a Bayern Munich.

Messi didn't grow up in the suburbs of Barcelona did he, they shipped him over as a teenager from the other side of the world.

It would be great if we could have scouts out in Queensland picking up the next Greg Inglis for our academy but it wouldn't be allowed (nor would he get a work permit).

Surely what we need to do is to develop as many top class juniors as we can. Then where we have gaps, we buy in the best talent we can find, regardless of who they are, or where from.

If we don't have sufficient quality coming through, then we buy in a team. I think it's as brutally logical as that, because we can not 'afford' to be less than a top 4 side.

We are at a disadvantage to both Wigan and Leeds, as the former can attract quality youngsters from their locale, whilst Wigan have a fantastic bedrock of schools and clubs to draw youngsters from. So we will inevitably need to get the check book out from time to time.

I accept your argument and of course knew that Messi wasn't a local lad, it's within the rules of their game and we must operate within the rules of ours when scouting.

My proposition is that we need to be aiming for promoting from within as a first alternative rather than a last resort and that the chequebook isn't the only answer particularly given the state of RL generally and certainly care should be taken when paying out for 'the finished article'

I should also add that when I say develop our own juniors, there are only 7 of our U19's that have come from local clubs and schools. The rest are drawn from the 'four corners'; Kells, Orrell, Hunslet, Golbourne, Telford etc etc. I don't see that as an issue.

Golborne isn't exactly a million miles away though