Quote: jaws1 "Good post but we only had 2 overseas players playing Monday Blake and Richards all the rest apart from Smith and Taylor came through our acadamy .Our chairman in his wisdom is relying on English trained players and not overseas as they are too expensive ,when an overseas player left he used his salary to upgrade the young players contracts .This looks like it is the way to go for the last 5 years we have been building the youth set up and now we have a conveyor belt of up and coming players.Who knows if every team follows suit in 10 years time we could have a great England team.'"
Assuming we can keep them all out of Rugby Union.
That has to become a new priority for the British game.