We've been taking 'em for years. Saints signed virtually the entire Crosfields U16's one year, to get Andy(?) Haigh, Joey Hayes and Danny Arnold.

Bracek is one you took off us. He came thru at the same time as Graham and was tipped as the better of the two. The rest is history.

And we did the same with Leatherbarrow (Mellor& wigan)

I don't think well ever know what goes on to make kids leave our club! As much as wed like to!

My cousin is a hooker who played his rugby for leyland warriors! Until a few warrington scouts asked him and a few other players to move to burtonwood(am I right with this) bulldogs! As they wanted the players in an area which the wire scouts could have first choice on them! And they woukd be pkaying alongside other lads that had been moved in to the area! Most notably rhys and ben evans! However another was a vinny kokupa(or something along those lines)! I went to watch the boys tear through a latchfors side in the cup and as I was chatting to my cousin(who had received the man of the match award) was approached by peter farrell! Who told him that within a week or two peter would be back down to the club to arrange meetings with the players warrington were going to sign, and that my cousin would be one of them! However when farrel came back to the club he picked out the evans twins. And vinny, leaving my cousin behind, denying having ever spoken to my cousin about playing for warrington! My cousin was absolutely distraught as he was commuting for training and games from leyland just to be signed by warrington! And there was a whole fuss where my parents had to sign to say he was staying with us in warrington on weekends just so he was aloud to play for them! However after this saints got a hold of my cousin and put him in their train on squad! In the end he just missed out on signing for saints due to them picking up another young hooker from wigan! However they told him that if he wanted he would be more than welcome to train with them, providing that he moved to blackbrook so that they could keep a better monitor on his progress! My cousin snapped up the chance to train with the saints and now will never have anything to do with our club due to the way he was treated by them! And the way he was treated so positively by saints even though he didn't make the team!

This is just another example of our club being poor with the way they treat some teens and its no surprise that other clubs are more succesful in those areas!

Read through most of these posts and really didn't see anybody named who left and made it into the Saints first team other than Andy Dixon ... can anyone correct me?

As far as Andy goes, great to see him doing so well, he was always a great kid and a strong player. Coached him when he was younger and despite going to school in Warrington he was always a Saints fan through and through!

You do realise he says "won" just to troll you and you fall for it, every, single, time, no matter which forum he posts it on.

Both Kane and Jo are good players and I wouldn't be surprised to see both of them make it.

Warrington have also lost another good player to Wigan from the same age group and some have gone to Widnes because there seemed to be more of a focus to bring in lads from union and the lads had had enough. After realising that there weren't going to be enough players the club then started phoning round the players asking them if they wanted to come back.

I also heard recently that there was a player, U16s I think, who had an injury and Warrington said come back to us when it's sorted and we'll see what we can offer but the lad got approached from Wigan who said that they would pay for the treatment and rehabilitation. Who would you choose?

no he didnt... i played in the same age group as longy for years.... i was a hooker and he certainly wasnt playing against me... i hooked for lancashire at that age group as well.

Whatever you say*, you prick


*although a trawl through Chief Scouts posting history would indicate the constant butchering of the English langauge in this manner for months before I raised it.

Yet another example of Warrington's neglect of a home-grown Wally Lewis right under their noses.

Shocking by the club how they rely upon proven, experienced youth rugby scouts and coaches to assess the worth of schoolboys rather than rely upon the players' parents and mates. It really needs sorting out before we end up with an Academy team that tops the table.

it was a terrible mistake by all clubs that didnt offer me a contract.. i could have been one of the best 3rd rate hookers in lower league rugby had i been given the chance.

That's good to know, just in case he is chosen to play on Saturday! I hope he is, btw, as he has been very good since returning from injury. He reads the game well and is not afraid to defend or push forward.

So Longy is lying when on page 45 of his autobiography he writes, "And then to cap it all, me and my StJude's mate Kieron 'Kez' Cunningham were selected to play for the England Under-16s against the french Cadets..."
If you're interested, the match programme is in a frame next to the bar in St Judes' clubhouse. Have a look next time you're in there.

Well he didnt get picked to play for lancashire between the ages of 12-15... maybe he was a late bloomer



I would have hooked against him for years.... maybe he wasn't a hooker back then.

strange... i remember all the players i played against and with that made it... i have no recollection of cunningham though... mind you long was that greedy when he was young no one else on his team got the ball much.

You got trolled and resorted to insults



/facepalm

114 posts so far and I wouldn't mind betting that most of them are trolling on this Site. Grow up and get a life.

It wasn’t an insult. Its down to RLFans swear filter replacing certain words with others. All I did was put your name in and it got automatically changed. It will probably do it again now, prick.

Has Kane Ditchfield now signed back for Warrington again? Listed as a Warrington player on the latest England youth squad listing

Well that isnt true is it. Especially considering there are 6 Challenge Cup medals in the hands of lads from the Leeds academy which they won whilst playing for Warrington. And one of those was also a challenge cup winner with Leeds, so thats 7 right off the bat.

1. Why are you replying to a post made over a year ago, have you been in hibernation and just woken up?
2. When you finally made a post it didn't make any sense to me, what are you trying to say?

With all this talk of Wire prefering muscle on their kids, I have to ask, who is running Wire's youth set-up??....Purple Aki??...

"It's the lure of the red vee, the change to represent a club where so much history has been made and where so many legends have played."

History being the optimum word. When did you last win a trophy?

They love finals though.

Maybe this focus on weights helps to prevent injury? Saints don't seem to be lucky with injurys?