I think the points raised by Clarke and Cullen the week before are valid. On saturday only Crooks and Houghton were Hull lads and a city the size of Hull should be embarrassed by our failure to produce Super League quality players.It is nothing new as in the glory days of the 80s we had 4 Kiwis and an Aussie in the backs and a predominantly West Yorkshire pack. I don't know why we do not produce good players locally but ultimately we need a pipeline of up and coming local lads to balance the salary cap. If we recruit highly paid Aussies or pay transfer fees for talented English lads from other clubs we will not have enough quality players within the cap.

We know our youth have been seriously lacking in recent years, the new chairman has put steps into to place to rectify this unfortunately it does not happen overnight. In time I am sure our youth policy will be very good and produce some of the stars of the future.

As for the 80's youth policies were poor throughout rugby league and the top teams just cherry picked the best players and slung them together with Aussies/Kiwis.

This.

A quick tour of these boards will reveal that pretty much every team thinks Sky in general and Clurkey in particular have it in for them. The logical conclusion is that they're just morons who like to say the odd controversial thing to get a reaction.

It's OK though, Clurkey has his unnecessary graphics and spurious stats to back him up, in his bid to sound like an insightful analyst of the game. A bid which has so far fooled nobody except the Sky Sports producers.

Clarky has a short memory when Wigan was struggling at the bottom of the league they didnt bring young players.
They went out and bought players and broke the salary cap just to stay up .

What's happened to his margin metre?

I think Hull are borrowing it to assist with their training sessions rather than developing their own system

It's keeping his hemorrhoids in place!

But surely that would render him unable to speak.

He always sounds to me he has sinus trouble.

Would have been nice if Teddy or Dipstick had reminded him of this.

The Manu comment was a pathetic jibe from Clarke, any player who has spent that amount of time at a club will be missed when he leaves. Would Wigan fans not be sad to lose Richards?

As for the loan signing of Russell, what about Leeds signing Lint when they had two bookers already?

He's normally better than that.

He will never beat his "Some tries should be worth eight points."