He's a cracking player. Last year tried his hand at centre and stand off. But we should be patient, as i say, last year he was playing Under 15 rugby, while in reserves he could be playing first teamers coming back from injury etc.

I don't follow??????

Yep, Rhys Evans. He is one of two brothers (the other being Ben) who relocated from South Wales to sign for us.

anyone got this lad down for first team one day?

When do we play Saints next?

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sounds a good prospect

Reserves- Wigan were the better team on the day, but the wire lads never gave up, thought the forwards were tireless in particualr McCarthy & Coops, they looked knackered when they came off. The no's 7 (Harvey?) didn't half get knocked about by their no 12 though, Good Effort from the team though

I think Warrington's Academy had 5 or 6 u16's playing today. You'll soon have to stop "mocking" Warrington's youth policy with results like this.

Rhys Evans certainly does look a good prospect. Once he's left school I would imagine he'll be training full time with the first team.

I wonder how "Brett Kenny" on your forum would explain Warrington being able to recruit such talents from South Wales in front of rugby union in the days of the salary cap?

As for Wigan being short of players in the reserve game? I think Warrington had about 10 fit players by the end of the game.

Paul, I wasn't using that as an excuse for the defeat.

I've just looked at the team sheet and it looks as though 15 of the 17 in the Wigan side are "first year".

Have a look here for the teams [urlhttp://viewtopic.php?t=411608[/url

You will know much better than I the ages of the Warrington lads. The Warrington winger Chris Flemming is a friend of ours. He and all his family are Wigan season ticket holders. It was funny to see them cheering for Wire academy yesterday.

Hate to break it to you pal. but there was quite a few players who weren't first years for wigan on show. logan tomkins, mathew sarsfield, liam thompson, jack hughes, the tall number 10, and prop that came of the bench were all older than 16?

Signed from Burtonwood Bulldogs weren't they?

No, they came from South Wales. I think the played for Burtonwood Bulldogs in like 'junior rugby' but they were pretty big signings to be honest from South Wales, came with a fair bit of fanfare, obviously the club must have put a lot of work in & getting the families to relocate etc.

Pretty much j.

Anybody who hasn't seen the Academy in action follow the link on this thread: viewtopic.php? ... c&start=15 or alternatively go to well known web based video sharing site and search for Rhys Evans try. What the clip doesn't show is his "side-step" that he executes without losing pace.

Anybody who hasn't seen the Academy in action follow the link on this thread: viewtopic.php? ... c&start=15 or alternatively go to well known web based video sharing site and search for Rhys Evans try. What the clip doesn't show is his "side-step" that he executes without losing pace.

Heres the direct link www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiKJOCwL4A

Heres the direct link www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiKJOCwL4A

That's an awesome try.

Did quite a few of them when he played service area. Had Viny on his wing (as a centre) and tore up other teams.

Quote ="The Eclipse"Heres the direct link www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiKJOCwL4A'" Jesus. H. Christ.

Quote ="The Eclipse"Heres the direct link www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiKJOCwL4A'" Jesus. H. Christ.

Quote ="The Eclipse"Heres the direct link www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiKJOCwL4A'" OH EM GEE!!

Quote ="The Eclipse"Heres the direct link www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNiKJOCwL4A'" OH EM GEE!!

He really is that good.

He certainly looks the part in that video.

Hope he has an immense debut season, then the club can release a range of "Rhys Lightning" merchandise, before loaning him to Widnes

If anyone from the club is reading this, I'm copywriting that nickname, as well as 'The Harare Ferrari' for Vinny Kapoka.

Great result for the U18's Academy. They totally outplayed their Wigan counterparts. Great Kicking game...great work in attack. With some outstanding defence.

The Wire dominated throughout.
The score line flattened the Wigan team, I thought.

Some very talented youngsters.

I posted the same thing on the Wigan site, Warrington bombed two tries and Wigan struggled against the kicks (particularly the high ones) from which Warrington scored three tries.

But it was a very enjoyable game, the second of my three in a day.

This post is the high point of a dreary Tuesday so far!

Rhys is also a member of the "Quiz Eubank" and we wish him very well in his career. he also knew the final score in the world cup hence getting us a point on the quiz night.