It matters not where they come from or how long they have been around.
Team should be picked on merit.
Each game best 17 available,based on attitude, ability, form etc.

But where is the fun in that during pre season?

Any truth in rumour Re Liam Flynn?

Typo for rubbish

Agar has shown the team won't be picked on merit. The club trained players will only get a chance through injury. For what its worth Anakin and one of Trout and Walshaw would start for me.

That's very unfair. How have you come to that conclusion - how do you know what his decisions were based on - does he ring you?

Walshaw for one did nothing last year to justify automatic selection, same for Trout.

This club trained stuff for me is overdone even though I do accept there is a bias towards Aussies - but then they do generally tend to be far more reliable than their UK counterparts so it's easy to understand coaches motives.

With the disastrous decision to bring back P&R it will only get worse as it forces coaches to go safety first.

Completely agree. Bad day for RL when they reintroduced p&r.

Is he related to our former players Adrian Flynn and Wayne Flynn??

Why? If it's even handed and transparent then I've no complaints at P&R, if on the other hand the RL decide to cherry pick then that's a different thing!

What ! and have playing in the top flight decided on a teams ability to play the game, that will never catch on

Licensing has made clubs kick start stadium developments, more clubs have blooded more British players, club sponsors are easier to come by knowing they will be on sky in SL. Clubs have improved facilities for players and fans. These are the reasons we left p and r. The RFL have buckled due to pressure from a few clubs without thinking of the good licensing was doing for the game over here. Licensing should have been for 20 years at least to see the benefits properly but yet again the RFL try something, It's not an instant success, so give up. It would have worked and seen to be fair, had it been policed properly, kicking out those who failed the criteria, including us.

Because it's short term and does not promote stability. I know it's traditional and works in football - however that is a far richer game and teams can fall 1 or 2 divisions and survive - we can't.

As ever we flounder from one extreme to another in RL - surely there is a halfway house between the horrors of relegation and the unfairness of a closed shop.

Clubs like us will never produce a GB International again with P&R in place - do you want that?

To be fair that's the last thing on my mind regarding Trinity, I've been watching this team since the mid seventies, I can't remember spawning multitudes of GB players whether it be in P&R days or indeed in the fourteen years ( someone will put me right on that if I've got it wrong) we've been in Super league.

Perhaps it was a little unfair, to put it another I will be pleasantly surprised if the three mentioned get much game time next season outside of injuries.

Fully agree about the environment to blood youngsters.I only hope the non-fed limit is retained and the club trained numbers remain the same at the very least. An increase in the former will see a return to sides being filled with kolpack stiffs, even more so now the pound no longer has the value to entice the better antipodeans.