Ricky Stuart's amassing a Barmy Army in Canberra and the Raiders want to make their ties to the Old Dart even stronger.

They're in early talks with Wigan about playing a pre-season trial against the English Super League club ahead of the 2020 NRL season.

The Raiders are considering taking their recruitment of English players to the next level, having already signed about a third of the national team.

Now Raiders CEO Don Furner said they could look to the future and bring the next generation of English stars to Canberra as well.

"Names keep coming up and we keep looking," he said.

"We're looking at some of the younger guys too. I've spoken to a couple of clubs about going to that next level down and looking at some younger guys and giving them an opportunity at 20s.

"It might be a faster development pathway for them and they go back and play at their club. So we're looking at that as well."

Are Wigan fans concerned about this. The Canberra club are sugar coating this news as a reciprocal arrangement between themselves and Wigan, when in fact they are manipulating the Warriors into a position of being merely Canberra's feeder club.

Wigan have always had the best conveyor belt of young, homegrown talent in English Rugby League, which Canberra want to now steer in the direction of the Australian capital city. Very sinister indeed.

Not sure that's true; there's a fair few teenagers on the NRL. Even front-rowers.

Does no one think that one reason we generally get the best academy players is because they know its a good route to the NRL?

but in general hes right, compared to SL

What often amazes me about The NRL is the number of returnees. I would have bet the house in Soliola being finished, having seen his last season in SL, but there he is still doing big minutes in NRL.

Corey Thompson! Just as good in the NRL as he was in SL.