Currie was named at Stand Off on the official team sheet, but Hughes played there from the start. A bit of mind games from Price I think.

How old was Adrian Morley when we signed him ?

Yes you are correct.

Price played Hughes there to shadow Johnny Lomax and tackle him out of the game and he was an extra forward for us, when we had the ball.

Hughes was very effective that day to give him his due and had Lomax in his pocket for all the game.

Born 1997, signed 2007 so I think 29 or 30 and he played 7 seasons for us.

Well he didn't seem too bad so perhaps we should make an exception. Better still look rather more carefully at who we are buying. Use the old grey matter, avoid journeymen, talk to players and coaches that know them well, look at their playing records and stats, ask them why they are happy to sign etc etc. Im not saying that putting on a blindfold and sticking a pin in a list of available players is not totally useless, but we do perhaps need to move on.

Did well for a 10 year old.

Players like Morley or Sonny Bill Williams are few, and no question would you make an exception for fitness professionals like those guys.
Even so, we still got Morley going on 29, which is close enough to a 27/28 age guide.

By and large a 27/28 year signing is going to give you 3+ years of worthy investment, so when they reach 31/32 you’d be thinking about the worth of an extension or not.

We don’t want to be signing the likes of Kasiano and Dudson again.

Hull made an approach, but it's been knocked back.

i think we should sign more 10 year olds

dammit

Especially as props don't usually reach their peak until about 11.

Ha ha sorry 1977!

Focus certainly seems to be on youth - it’s a nice refreshing change. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... tor-rugby/

Focus certainly seems to be on youth - it’s a nice refreshing change. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... tor-rugby/

From 2012 to 2022 we have had only Currie. Philbin, King, Thewliss and Wrench through the academy system that seem to have embedded themselves in the 1st team squad. That's really poor, and I know that we seem to have finally understood just how important home grown players are to our future success. But.... even allowing for the focus on player development and apparent success, I really hope we are going to see a balanced approach to the external and internal channels of squad recruitment. That may seem strange coming from me as I have been banging on about youth development for years, but I really hope this doesn't swing in the other direction and we end up shooting ourselves in the foot.

Hopefully it means agents will use other teams as stalking horses when trying to get their NRL players better terms.