Before Gutterfax gets in - you mean you have young ENGLISH players at HKA - do they understand the accents or do they speak Strine as well.

Some good ones here, hope they get a chance

Latus
taylor
Watts
Sheriff
Bell
Hodgson
Hardcastle
Cox
Peterson
Beaumont
Salter

plus the likes of Hodgson, Cockayne, Murrell, Fox, Briscoe, Welham, Cook, Hall, Netherton who are all English

It ain't as bad as Guttersnipe tries to make out.

Leeds has to be Jared Stewart, Brad Singleton and Chris Clarkson should get more game time.

paul johnson and josh vievers both looking good in pre season and will prob play most of the season.

For Wigan-

Josh Charnley- The club were rumoured to be letting him leave on loan for the season to Quins but his pre season efforts changed thier minds and they let Pryce go instead. I expect him to get chances at Wigan this year and he looks one hell of a prospect going off his HKR form.

Steffan Marsh- The coaching staff at Wigan love him and he'll get plenty of opportunities. He's quick and has great footwork.

Liam Farrell- If he kicks on he's got a big chance of England selection at the end of the year. He was simply outstanding in 2010 and makes the game look so simple. He's the best young forward i've seen come through at Wigan in a long time.

Outside of Wigan i'm looking forward to seeing Milner at Cas. I keep reading alot of good things about him and hooker is an area we could do with producing some top quality players in.

Was very impressed with Liam Watts last season for Hull KR. As said, Warrington have the Evans' brothers, and a man that I think will really kick on this year; Mike Cooper.

Why do people include the likes of Cooper and Watts on these threads? Watts played all but one game last year, Cooper made his debut almost 5 years ago. These threads should be for actual rookies, not just a chance for people to list every English player under the age of 26 at their club.

Watts only turned 20 at the back end of last season. I would still class him as a young player.

Maybe so but I think the OP was searching for posts about young players who may come into SL this year, not ones who already have a lot of experience at this level.

As would I with Cooper.

Scott Taylor should make his breakthrough this year. Jordan Cox looks a very useful backrower. He's a big lad for his age too.

He's still young, but he's an established first team player now, everyone knows about him. Tom Briscoe is also 20, Eastmond is 21 etc. Yes they are young players in the sense that they are not veterans, but what does listing them achieve? Players like that don't belong in this sort of thread, it should be about youngsters who may be about to break into the first team rather than established stars.
Cooper is older than Sam Burgess. If anyone had listed Burgess on this thread they would be laughed at.

Don't forget Rhys Williams. He has looked good in 5/6 games he has played.

This lad has the potential to be a great as far as I'm concerned. Fast, good hands, good confidence, for me he has to stay at Wigan.


Not seen anything from him to excite me. Gets the ball and it's head down, charge in. Never passes and on at least a few occasions last year was badly out of position in defence or missed tackles to concede tries. I'm sure he'll do well somewhere but I can't see it being at Wigan unless on the wing.


Let's hope so. George seems to be fitting in well at Souths, and an England pack hopefully eventually including Sam, Tom and George will be a real handful for the Aussies.

How foolish of you saying we have youth players developing according to most on here it's no existent or we should have 1-17 young English club developed players how dare you upset people on here

From Warrington.

Was very impressed with Larne Patrick everytime I saw him last season.

They are still eligible for young player of the year, surely thats the category that decides on the term 'young' as far as RL goes.

That's why I think the category should be changed. In the NRL and many other sporting leagues they use Rookie of the Year, and the Albert Goldthorpe medal in League Express is also for rookie of the year rather than young player. It should be an award for players with 10 or less first grade games at the start of the season. Either way, listing a bunch of players who are in their second or third seasons is pointless and self-indulgent in terms of this thread.

I know, but he plays for Wigan which is what I was referring to.

Bateman at Bulls looked a decent player, maybe not this season though.

Indeed. I'll bet the mother in law on him being a strong prospect for future full international honours. Looks like Tom Burgess is laying down a market too, following the departure of two of his brothers for Oz - he has something to prove, and likley will do IMO.

How refreshing, too, to see such a positive and thoroughly good, informative and interesting thread! Take a bow, everyone!

Good shout. Early signs suggest he has a very bright future in the game.

Bateman and Leeds Rhino Stevie Ward are the most exciting forwards coming through in that 16/17 year old age group imo.
At under 18 level keep an eye out for Castleford hooker Daz Clark,

I have already mentioned Wigan fullback Matty Russell who i think is the next superstar of British RL.

look out for Eloi Pelissier for the Catalans - seen him in the two friendlies - looks a quality act in the half-back area