Quote ="KaeruJim"It took years to build to 2004 and that monumental GF victory. It’s taken years to lose our mojo too.
It will probably take us years to get it back again, but particularly with the youth we have coming through now, benchmarked again at the Aussie schoolboys (albeit on home turf and in very un-Australian conditions) - things look bright. We have similar ingredients to the time leading up to success. That’s no guarantee of course.
The club, long term, deserves criticism for the way it’s handled the transition away from the old guard - in the short term however I don’t see what hand we have left to play except to get the most out of the squad we have, which should still be good enough to avoid bottom spot by season end. There is no point just sticking in too many U19s players now, it is a huge physical jump to open age.
A handful are close, but most are another year or two off.
There is no point exchanging players unless whoever is coming in is significantly better than those leaving.'"
Whilst I agree that the youngsters look promising, most sports teams that gel with the youth players coming in already have a structure, a spine and some experienced leaders to bring them through. If you look at wigan and the kids they broought through under Wane, it was into a very well structured team with some strong leaders in key positions, o'loughlin in particular. Leeds need to get lucky with a new Sinfield and Peacock coming through.... I think Merrin was earmarked for the Peacock pack leader role, but so far has not shown that....
