Did OK for a debut, with little time to get used to the team, but there's a lot more to come from him yet - he was fairly poor by his own standards, but a lot of that comes from not quite "gelling" with Fox. That will come, with time, though. Also, he's played most of his recent career on the wing rather than centre.

Congrats on the win, BTW, and glad he played a part in it!

AFAIK, ALL super league clubs, at various stages of their progression, have taken loan players. It's part and parcel of the game with benefits to BOTH parties. In important games its vital to have players the coach can be confident of doing the job, he obviously sees them day in and day out and is in a better position than all of us to make the call.

Think he more than made a good loan signing with Charnley.

Could you get your tongue any further up morgans

And he can type at the same time. Who says men can't multi-task?

I think you'll find my post reffered to ALL Super League coaches making the most from the loan signing market, not such a difficult concept to understand really.

Think i must have misread this bit then -



Wigan will be so grateful

What a load of tripe, you wasted probably 10 calories typing that! Ask yourself this; how many years will Wigan have been developing Charnley to be at the level he clearly was last night? 5/6? Rovers set up was tripe up to 2007 and I don't expect us to see that level of youngster coming through in all positions for another couple of seasons.

It's fairly obvious that Mariano clearly (in JM's eyes) isn't up to SL standard. At 23, I suspect if he isn't there now he never will be.

In 2008 & last year, I would accept we were not doing enough at bringing in youth. That's not the case this season, there is a clear pathway for jr players now, just as clear as other clubs, so this "feeder club" b***ocks is just a load of tosh. Go bang your head and look at the likes of Watts, Latus, Taylor etc coming through.

Yes, the obvious clear pathway is to bring in academy players on loan or poach them from other clubs, e.g Watts from Castleford and Hodgson from Hull FC!

Isn't Briscoe from Fev?

Watts was released by Cas and Hodgson didnt want to spend another 2 seasons being 3rd chioce to Berrigan and Houghton.
As was said the Briscoe brothers are from Fev, Tuffour was from London so quite why Rovers are having the finger pointed at them here i fail to see your point.
All clubs have to look further afield hence Rovers setting up roots in Grimsby as an example.

You keep using Cas as an example of the "pathway" for youth to 1st team, yet this season alone Cas have loaned 2 Wigan youngsters (Ainscough & Tuson) to help them through an injury crisis.

Rovers do exactly the same and its somehow the Berlin Wall in front of our Acedemy? If you are going to try for the "reasoned debate" form of trolling, you need to up your game sonny!