Quote ="sally cinnamon"Interesting how most fans realise when it comes down to it that English youngsters are crap and the overseas option is almost always the better one.
But they still usually harp on with populist comments like "clubs should stop looking at Aussies all the time, there's just as good home grown talent here".
If Sam Tomkins had come through our youth system our fans would be banging on about how great he was, best young player since Harris and Scully, and if we signed Minichello to play ahead of him there would be outrage.'"
I have learnt to never take what u say at face value but I think you have hit on the point.
There is an overlap. Eg quins new signing. Ppl would prefer a young player to be be played ahead of him at quins so one day we will be able to compete with aus and new zealand. We certainly won't by employing over 30 players who are useless (cross) over young players.
