Yeah you might be correct on Nash jumping ship. My memory does fail me sometimes!

Can't forget Richie Myler

I think we all know that Richie would do a great job for us. I was more interested in peoples thoughts when comparing players like Donoghue to Gerrard.

Donoghue leaves the club and we bring in a player in Gerrard, who isn't half the player IMO.

My point is that we seem to work harder to bring in players that have been released by the SuperLeague club under the assumption that they are better than what we currently have because they have only come through our own youth system.

Mike Ostick,josh simm,rob draper,martin keaveney,was it martin ainscough centre/standoff,mike morrison at leigh.I think johnny leather,paul o connor are better fullbacks than yates.A few decent players gone, but some just not good enough at championship level.I am not too impressed with gerrard and prefer donoghue.

This lad is deffinately one to watch out for....... One of the best youth forwards Ive seen in the last few years.. Cant believe they've let him leave us. viewtopic.php?f=21&t=452255

This lad is deffinately one to watch out for....... One of the best youth forwards Ive seen in the last few years.. Cant believe they've let him leave us. viewtopic.php?f=21&t=452255

Excellent thing is hindsight. How many of those were at the club when we were in SL and couldn't guess whether we would go down.

most of the players mentioned got chances to show themselves as up to standard and then played badly in the first team.

phil wood being an obvious exception as he had a well paid job outside or rugby so wanted to be part time i believe

I cant remember Dayne Donoghue, Paul O'Connor or Adam Bowman playing particulalry badly for the first team when they played, and I cant remember Leather, and a few of the others ever getting a chance.

They may not have been good enough, but my question is, did we persevere with them enough. We seem all too willing to give former Wigan academy players opportunities in the first team.

This isn't a dig at anybody in particular, its just an opinion stating that for some reason we think the players that leave Wigan are the best thing since sliced bread.

Where is Dale Bloomfield now? Didn't he spend some time hopping between ours and Saints academy yet never quite made the breakthrough?

According to 'game on' magazine he is at Rochdale

Donaghue made a break once at Fev and looked scared to death with the ball and ended up throwing it along the floor about 10 yards forward. He never lived it his schoolboy hype despite plenty of chances.
Bowman had one decent game at 'haven and that was it.
O'Connor was keen enough but too small. All 3 are now playing at the correct level for their abilities imo.

Adam Sidlow is going alright at Salford from what I've seen

Nash hasnt played a league game yet at Leigh after a pre season shoulder injury, will be back soon though to add some size to our pack.