It's an interesting one this.

Wane has obviously worked closely with a lot of the Academy lads, but in his 1st season as a Head Coach, will he throw some of them in? I hope he does, would be nice to see at least 2 or 3 given a few games.

Crying out for a half back who attacks the line. Gaskell and Lomax do it and put dount in the minds of the defence, last night Finch was reduced to passing balls laterally and I can't remember at any time him taking on the line, which is something I'm always critical of when it comes to his performance.

Just because the Saints can do it with the young guns does not mean it will work for the pies.

A tru saint .

1st post and not on your own web site. get a life.

You have only joined as you won last night

Shouldn't be a problem for us.

We have much better u20's side and have done for a few years now. We have a Charnley for your Foster, a Sam Tomkins for your Lomax and a Lee Mossop for your Matty Ashurst and that will continue and bear it's fruit rolling forward.

Saints were great last night and the 2 young halfbacks are going great but we'll be back and with our youth set up, the rise of the Aussie salary cap and therefore less top draw overseas players coming over were in a great position to move forward.

With SW's history of coaching Wigan's youth teams I'm sure he'll introduce quite a few of them them into the first team over a period starting 2012.
I would also be very surprised if he used more then one or two at the most into the first team for any one game.

mellor and crosby look like the two who are being primed, logan tomkins might get a few games aswell

I can understand people's doubts watching him yesterday. He looks decent enough but he's not that big yet has no great pace and is passing looked ok but not outstanding.

Hate to say it but looks a bit of a Mark Smith to me. A good lad that people want to be better then they are.

The lads I have high hopes for are Russell, King, Powell, Mellor, Crosby, Hughes and Burke. I've heard good things about the lot and they didn't dissapoint.

Wane will blood some younger players probably because he will have to but I think he would want to do so anyway.

The trick is getting the balance right. It was wrong this season with only Charnley breaking through but we can't chuck in five or six either. I like the idea of Russell at full back so Sam can go to six with the younger half backs being groomed for Finches departure. That is nice long term planning.

So the number mentioned by NickyKiss at the start of the thread seems about right. I don't get a chance to watch the under 20's but NK seems to know what he is talking about so I will look out for those names.

I don't get to many games either tbh but it's an area I'm very interested in and follow people comments and reports closely.

Rouges would probably be our man to give the best views.

Going off what I've seen guys like Russell, King and Crosby could be special. It's sometimes about these lads being in the right place at the right time though and we may see some lads come through you wouldn't expect and vice versa.

If S Wane gets the job it will be interesting to see what he does regarding introducing young players,this may show if he had a conflict with Madge regarding the make up of the team.
The case everyone is allways talking about is the split of fans regarding Sam Tomkins over which posistion he should play,if Wane (if he gets the job) switches Sam to standoff this may mean that such a difference of opinion existed. But as everyone knows there can only be one boss.
Next season though I think could be exiting times if a couple of young players are introduced,we must not forget that the u/20s have been very successful over the last few years. If we left the most promising ones in the u/20s for another year they may start to look elsewere.