How odd. SL appearances this year by players 21 or under at clubs higher than you :



Ryan Hall (age 21) 16

Danny Allan (age 19) 5

Kallum Watkins (age 18 ) 10

Paul McShane (age 19) 3

Ben Jones-Bishop (age 20) 1

Paul Clough (age 21) 17

Kyle Eastmond (age 19) 6

Chris Dean (age 21) 5

Gareth Frodsham (age 19) 3

Gary Wheeler (age 19) 8

Andrew Dixon (age 19) 3

Matt Ashurst (age 21) 11

Tom Armstrong (age 19) 4

Jonny Lomax (age 18 ) 3

Jacob Emmitt (age 20)2



Total = 97



Rovers

Liam Watts (age 18 ) 0

Scott Spaven (age 19) 0

James Haynes (age 19) 1

Two clubs that both have fourteen years of Super League behind them, with plenty of success along the way. Our first year had a threat of relegation, which wasn't the best time to be bring youngsters into the team. Last season saw Rovers finish 7th, well above some well established Super League sides, and this season has us in third position with ten games to go and the youngsters are starting to come through.

OMG your boring!

What a dull response - where's the sport in that?







Salford have just come up:

Richie Myler (age 19) 14

Jordan Turner (age 20) 13

Stefan Ratchford (age 20) 12

Luke Adamson (age 21) 15

Andrew Thornley (age 20) 1

Adam Sidlow (age 21) 6

Dean McGilvray (age 21) 2

Jason Walton (age 19) 1



Total 64

I can help thinking she has a point!!



I desperatly want to believe Rhys Lovegrove and Liam Watts were worth signing and playing in front of Esders, Beaumont and Taylor but I just cant.



No doubt you will call me a closet Hull fan or something again now

It's "you're"

And not for the first time.







TBH that's probably the best sort of Hull fan to be at the moment.

I agree with you a lot but seen as though you refused to send me any dirty pics of you I have stopped heaping praise on you in public

Which ever way you put it, spelt incorrectly or correctly, You are! Do us all a favour and change the record.

She may well have, I'm not saying she has no point at all, but it does not mean she has to go on about it =green[size=150ALL[/size the time.

TBF, she has precious little else to go on about

Not that dull, dull is the position Salford find themselves in at present, along with other clubs that are struggling to compete. It's a well known fact that Rovers sacrificed their youth policy, which was well respected for a lower league club a few years back, to assist them with their plan to get into Super League, which they managed to do as you well know.



Rovers have over the last couple of seasons have progressed in the top division, and at the same time we've progressed at youth levels also. Every club has it's own policy on it's youth development, Salford's is to bring in players at an early age as your stats suggest, but yet it's also encouraged by the state Salford find themselves in, with little money to spend on new players, Mcrae's own words, and a reliance on youth to help out.



Hull have a policy of telling the world they have a very good crop of youngsters coming through, yet constantly look to Australia and New Zealand to recruit players, what does this say to the young players looking to step up into the first team?



Now although some might argue that Rovers have the wrong kind of approach, I can only suggest the stats point to it working in our favour, the first team are going well in the Super League, the youth teams are improving.