It was “tongue in cheek”, given they were 2 of the best players of 5heir generation (domestically).

Remember we were supposed to be in the running to sign Harris back when he came back from Welsh RU.

There was even a 'fake news' press release doing the rounds that tricked some people in the media, with a mock up of Iestyn's head photoshopped on Mark Hilton's body so it looked like he was wearing a Wire kit.

Yes, sorry I was wrong on the dates for Ben.


If he was in the first team at 17, I think it's fair to say his substantive development was from 12-16 at Wigan.

Yes Mike Greg was a rare talent indeed and again could not be considered a "product" of any Warrington youth development because as you say there was no system in place.

So how many international class players have we produced since we tried developing our own players?

I think this area is very important though as it's indicative of our ability of top talent identification at an early age (wherever they live), ability to compete with rival clubs for said top talent to recruit them and then the ability to develop them into top class players. We are not good at this, no point in ignoring the fact, we need to address it.