Quote: Jake the Peg "We're really not as good as anyone else at bringing through youngsters. How many international players has our academy produced since the start of SL compared to the likes of wigan, leeds, saints and bradford?'"
I will give you that we haven't been good enough over the past years (and keeping them) but I think in the last 2 maybe 3 years we're getting there - i.e since Agar left.
Creating international players isn't a measure of success, I'd say players playing in SL/NRL is a better measure. If we take that, even in our "darker" Agar days we've created a number of players through our academy, Tommy Lee, Scott Wheeldon, Danny Washbrook, Reece Lyne, Tom Briscoe are all playing SL regularly albeit elsewhere. Wasn't there a thread on here mentioning how many players are now playing SL regularly who used to be at Hull.
And for players playing at Hull through our academy, Danny Houghton, Tom Lineham, Chris Green and Bowden are first team regular, Hadley pretty regular, Shaul played nearly every game last season. So I don't think we're doing too bad if you don't purely search for Internationals.
As for internationals, we have created at least 2 internationals from our academy recently, Josh Hodgson (granted he left) and Tom Briscoe. Seen as you said since SL started Horne played international, Yeaman did, Paul King (Token app for England I think) Cooke should have.