Totally agree, it's what the salary cap was supposed to do , spread the talent a bit.

Lockyer's comment about Tomkins being exciting and they'll have to do more homework on him.
The Aussies had obviously never heard of him before they arrived here.
Mind you they might not have anything to worry about with Sam, knowing Tony Smith's ability to get it wrong he probably won't play him v the Aussies and Kiwis. After all Myler will be Smith first choice, won't he?

If Smith plays Myler he should be fired, not because Myler is a bad player but because he has had one match in about three months and that is no preparation at all for an international.

Why let teams who can't be ar$ed producing their own be allowed to receive this talent though?

Surely that is better than there being no talent available?

With your comments on Micky Mac, he's a player that will develop into a fine hooker. He's hard as nails and will hit anything that comes his way, he IMO is one of the old fashioned style hookers that won't take any crap. He can improve his all round game though which I'm sure he will but he's the best young hooker that's come through our academy for a good while and will only improve IMO.

And thats why we will continue to be 3rd (at best) behind Aus & NZ.

After a decade of SL and the Salary Cap ,just look at that England Team and compare it to the GB Team of a decade ago.


This competition has been dumbing down for 10 years and only now are people realising it. Look at the 'Bored of SL?' threads popping up on the Saints site.

It's gonna take a mammoth task from the likes of Wigan, Leeds, Saints, the Hull clubs & Wire (and to a lesser extent Wakey with John Kear) over the next five years to rescue this bloody game by nurturing talent through, cause sure as hell the likes of Salford, Huddersfield and Cas ain't going to do it!!

I like him. He has a great turn of pace, good step and has a an eye for the gap.
He needs someone to keep his feet on the ground and not let him believe his own hype. We have seen it happen to good youngsters before.
Hopefully though he will continue improving and within a few years we will actually have someone who can play a good role in the halves against the Aussies.

Unfair on Cas imo when you consider they've brought through the likes of Shenton, Westwrman and Owen in the last couple of years who all look good long term bets for international caps.

Agree with the rest of the post mind. The game is being run by the teams that bring the least to the table which is mind boggling.

With the smaller teams they have really stepped their game up in my opinion. I like some of the Huddersfield youngsters coming through, they seem to be going well in the first team now, Salford are getting some good players coming through and Wakey and Quins have decent players now too. They're the teams that used to rely on other peoples youth rather than promoting their own.

The only 2 teams that haven't produced a player of note recently are Celtic and Catalans. Catalans don't have an academy so take the good young french lads from other teams and Celtic have a decent academy set up, but only just started really so they've not started to come through yet.