J Thackray ( Crusaders )?????? thought he started elsewhere??
1997–00 Hunslet Hawks
2000–02 Halifax Blue Sox
2003–04 Castleford Tigers
2005–06 Hull FC
2006–07 Leeds Rhinos
2008 Doncaster
2008–2009 Hull FC
2010– Crusaders RL

sorry jimmy though hutchie was about about were the fc ex-players were playing now

haha,he might have meant anthony thacks?? now at widnes?

could it simply be that anytime a young player gets to play first team rugby they get butchered from the terraces and the message boards if they try a few things that go wrong.im pretty certain the likes of tompkins,eastmond,macguire etc made a hash of plays when they were first breaking through but maybe didnt get as much abuse and their confidence wasnt as rocked.do we simply expect too much too soon

I've said this for a long time and it's no coincidence that our best coach since Brian Smith was in charge when the bulk of those better players came through.

On the other hand you could also ask how many top class footballers the area has produced, cricketers, swimmers, athletes, cyclists and world class business people?

Maybe it's just the general mentality and lack of ambition of people from this area that is the issue

aye, nobody mocks failure like hull folk and we tend to live for the weekend.hardly a good development ground after the initial breakthrough

so do the players,so maybe there is the problem!!!!

aye but were kind of brought up with it arent we.is it the dockers/fishermans work hard party hard heritage

Sorry mate i actually meant all players playing in SL who are not at there original teams (excluding foreigners of course)

Ie Tansey, Sharp, J Turner, Dowes etc etc for us

I remember in 2007 we fielded a team in the second round of the play-offs, having finished 4th and beaten Huddersfield in the first round, that had only one overseas player and 10 homegrown in it. Lost 18-21 but felt pretty proud of that teamsheet. Think this was it:

1 Shaun Briscoe
2 Craig Hall =#FF4080Homegrown
3 Richard Whiting =#FF4080Homegrown
4 Kirk Yeaman =#FF4080Homegrown
5 Gareth Raynor
6 Richard Horne =#FF4080Homegrown
7 Matthew Head
8 Paul King =#FF4080Homegrown
9 Tommy Lee =#FF4080Homegrown
10 Garreth Carvell
11 Lee Radford =#FF4080Homegrown
12 Danny Tickle
13 Danny Washbrook =#FF4080Homegrown
14 Wayne Godwin
15 Graeme Horne =#FF4080Homegrown
16 Scott Wheeldon =#FF4080Homegrown
17 Ewan Dowes