Quote ="FearTheVee" This is all aside from the fact that the salary cap means Saints have enough players through their academy who have played SL this season to put together a full team, and such exposure can only be good for the young players in this country.
1 Wellens
2 Armstrong
3 Wheeler
4 Dean
5 Tyrer
6 Eastmond
7 Smith
8 Graham
9 Cunningham
10 Frodsham
11 Ashurst
12 Dixon
13 Clough
14 Roby
15 Moore
16 Emmitt
17 Lomax'"
This is the key point. For years now we haven't given youth a chance, and have lost a lot of talent at the "potential" stage as a result. Only by giving English prospects game time and the benefit of a first team training regime will we ever get the elite national player pool broader, and the national side more competitive - and our sport will always struggle to grow without some international success. Loyal servant though he was, does anyone really think that people like Keith Senior should have had no competition for his England jersey well into his thirties? Roll on the next generation I say - especially the cockney ones
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