errrr.....no lad am not !!

What I did find interesting about the IL interview was the fact that he'd had meetings with Wayne Bennett and Graham Murray regarding our possible targets. He'd discussed a few players with them and been warned off for whatever reasons. It's good that we're tapping into 2 experienced and respected coaches knowledge base.

IL said he'd been advised against some players by these 2. Now this may be me putting 2+2 together and coming up with 5 but hasn't Carl Webb worked under both these coaches?

Now if that had been Mo he'd be being accused of being a part-time chairman.



Dave

I'm glad Lenagan is having meetings with those sorts of characters about players and not just going off his own eyes.

With all due respect he knows no more then the average poster on here about NRL players and i wouldn't like to think we'd let anybody off here go and sign our overseas players

The great thing for me was him trying to get the link with Australian clubs to send our better young players out there to gain experience.

I still can't fathom what the Aussie clubs gain from such an arrangement.

It's a bit like Wigan Athletic sending young players to Barcelona for a season. When you look at it like that why would the overseas club be interested in doing this?

Dave

because every now and again a club unearths a talented player? look at united with pique

You will have to explain to me what you mean. Who is doing the "unearthing"? Us and we then send them to Aus - so I still don't see what the Aus team gains from this.

Or we send a few kids and the Aussie side unearths one of them as a talented player, but given this player would still be our player I still don't see what the Aus club gains by doing so.

Dave

I agree, sounds a tough sell for the SL clubs IMO.

They'd be more open to our top academy teams touring, like Saints' kids have done a couple of times in the recent past.

Junior development is a very competetive landscape in Australia, they won't want to be wasting resources developing players for Wigan.

ill put it simply

wigan think they have a talented player so they send him to oz to gain experience in what many people regard as a superior comp. said player returns form his loan stint a better all round player (due to the oz clubs better training etc... - again, what 'people' claim)

the oz club gains a player who they can use to supplement they own home grown players in their reserve (and possibly first team) squad all for a relatively low fee

of course, all this depends on a club in oz that would be happy with the arrangement which im guessing is why it hasnt been arranged yet