1. Briscoe
2. Goulding
3. Aspinwall
4. Brown
5. Hodgson
6. S. Tomkins
7. Long
8. Prescott
9. John Clarke
10. Hargreaves
11. J. Tomkins
12. Paul Johnson
13. O'Loughlin

14. McIllorum
15. Hansen
16. Gilmore
17. Bibey

I think briscoe played for Fev Lions rather than the academy team

1. BLAYMIRE
2. MORTON
3. ATKINS
4. MURPHY
5. GEORGE
6. SOUTHERNWOOD
7. BROUGH
8.MASON
9.WILDEY
10.WESTWOOD
11.FERGUSON
12.GOLDEN
13. ELLIS

14.BIBB
15.PITTS
16.
17.

Could be wrong but thought atkins was bradford and george huddersfield. Hasnt trout played first team?

and Bradford don't produce any players of note

Interesting to see a couple of Wiganers have Clarke as their hooker. Do you reckon Clarke was better than Mark Smith?

1. BLAYMIRE
2. MORTON
3. ATKINS
4. MURPHY
5. GEORGE
6. SOUTHERNWOOD
7. BROUGH
8.MASON
9. DAVEY
10. GRIFFIN
11.SNITCH
12. WESTWOOD
13. ELLIS

14.BIBB
15.PITTS
16. WILDEY
17.FERGUSON

We're struggling at stand off and in the threequarters but the pack is a match for anyone.

At Wigan, I'd say Smith was the better player.

Away from Wigan, Smith decided to play his career at at Widnes with the majority of it being in NL1 which was a bit of a waste IMO. Where as Jon Clarke has competed generally pretty well through his time in Super League.

What about a pack of

lynch
lunt
watts
elima
huby
westerman

Quote ="pyeman"Could be wrong but thought atkins was bradford and george huddersfield. Hasnt trout played first team?'" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 207342.stm signed from us for 2007. But got his first first-team appearance at Wakie

Quote ="pyeman"Could be wrong but thought atkins was bradford and george huddersfield. Hasnt trout played first team?'" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 207342.stm signed from us for 2007. But got his first first-team appearance at Wakie

Slightly amending the other Cas one:

Thompson; Owen, Shenton, Arundel, Pryce; Kain, Orr; Lynch, Lunt, Huby, Elima, Watts, Westerman.

Bench: Godwin, Boyle, Walker, Gledhill.

Squad players: Massey, Milner, Worrincy, Davies, Saxton, Holmes, Harris.

The young forward Walker looked handy against Saints the other night. How long's he been around?

Made his debut this season.

That would have been my take on it as well. I remember Smith looking a really good prospect when he was coming through behind McCormack and Newton but he didn't get many games. It was inevitable he was going to move on and he did look good quality in a weak Widnes SL team, probably the fact they got relegated and he stayed with them, meant he disappeared off the radar.

Clarke is one of those players who seems to be respected within the game (ie coaches and other players seem to rate him highly) more than he is respected on the terraces. He's fit and strong and his workrate is high, and his defence is good. If he'd had the speed out of dummy half that Higham has I reckon Clarke could have been up with the best.

did gledhill and elima ever play for cas in SL ?

Elima played once against Salford (?) and scored on his debut.

As for Gledhill, don't think so.

Salford

1. Michael Platt
2. Andy Ballard
3. Stuart Littler
4. Jordan Turner
5. Dean Gorton
6. Stefan Ratchford
7. Simon Svabic
8. Paul Southern
9. Andrew Henderson
10. Andy Gorski
11. Luke Adamson
12. Stephen Bannister
13. Lee Marsh

14. John Clough
15. Ian Sinfield
16. Darren Bamford
17. Gareth Owen

Poor. Shows exactly why Salford have made these recent signings opposed to their own academy/reserves.

Your thoughts?

Looks to have a good future, runs the ball in well, tackles hard and has lots of enthusiasm.

In pre season friendlies in the last few years he's put a few sl props on there a*se, did stosic the other year.

Got a twin in the hudds academy team too who can hopefully step up.

Walker came from Bulls academy. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... 6490663.jp

Walker came from Bulls academy. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... 6490663.jp

Quote ="peter parker"Walker came from Bulls academy. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... 6490663.jp'" But has played at Cas longer and has come through the ranks at Cas. If a player played 1 month at one club in their academy and got released but then played three years in another club's academy, wouldn't you say he's the second club's player? I would.

Quote ="peter parker"Walker came from Bulls academy. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... 6490663.jp'" But has played at Cas longer and has come through the ranks at Cas. If a player played 1 month at one club in their academy and got released but then played three years in another club's academy, wouldn't you say he's the second club's player? I would.

Generally agree with this, although I would not have Bibb anywhere near the 17

Yeah, I would. Sorry, I didn't read the OP properly, I thought they didn't count if they signed from another team's academy. My bad.

Yes I know that! My point is that isn't he from Dewsbury or somewhere, and came straight into our first team, hence Wigan isn't his "Origin" club?