Didn't MC state on his podcast early in 2022, that his ambition was something like to have most of his squad were home grown players, or something like that

The road to hell is paved with good intent.

For us it would be better for the Road to be paved with gold.

I'm sure it still is, but that's a long plan. Can't just instantly do it.

It cannot be MC’s plan because he is going at the end of the season, so he has little time left. If he plans to get an head start in the Championship by having a squad of the standard required this season then yes he has achieved that.
I wonder who we will arrange a dual registration with so that we can assist to give the senior’s clubs players playing time. The recent movements suggests we are already putting the processes in place.

Gold is far more acceptable to a good youth set up as Hull KR are showing.

Well I'm not sure he knew he was going when he said that, but I don't understand why he's now getting a hard time about this. Isn't it good to try for this.
We did better than most on academy, we just seem to be stuffed by those not needing to pay for academies and invest in short term squad.

It's not so much as a hard time, but its just we don't seem to be going in the path that he said only just over 12 months ago, and this is him saying it, no vicious rumours here. So many young players we have lost since this.


Also, he had high hopes for our then coach too!

Two home grown pivots in the recent England squad for starters

The team are certainly not playing to their abilities that’s plain for all to see , they may not be the best in super league by a long shot ,but they are at a better level than they are showing at present and there lies for me the problem . Is it simply down to confidence or poor structures put in by the coach ,im not sure , but just looking at the team struggling with the basics of the game is worrying .3 defensive howlers cost us dearly at Wigan something you don’t often see in the amateur game let alone with professional players .

Yeah we’ve always seemed to have a good production line for homegrown players, I just hope the dream comes true and most of our first team consists of players graduating from the academy.
For one reason or another I think we’re some way off that yet and a drop to the championship won’t help.

Granted, we do.

The problem we have, not valuing them enough, and being able to retain them, while at the same time, squandering cap and budget space elsewhere, which I feel at times, defeats the whole object of what were trying to achieve

Exactly

East to say. But if we just went with our young players this year they'd have been ripped apart by all those lovely supporters that think they know better.

Correct me if I'm wrong but Rovers have only two players in their whole 1st team squad who have come through their system. Lewis and Fishwick.

They did have Will Tate who was released to Castleford once they got Corey Hall and Connor Barley who is now on a season long loan to York I believe.

If you were including Litten he started off at Hull FC.