I thought that, but I also knew maybe I was biased at the time.
Not the only to slip throught the net, go back to 95 ish when we signed a lad called Stuart Fisher and turned down Paul Deacon!!

Deacs got some stick at college for being an "Oldham" player from lots of our academy at the time. Good to know 14 years on he made his rugby do the talking

Was also signed from Fax IIRC

BTW if you use the season by season drop down bar on the site and scroll reet to the bottom you can look back at academy seasons all the way back to 2002. Was surprised to recall that our [url=http://wigan.rlfans.com/fusion_pages/index.php?page_id=9682003 Junior Academy[/url finished bottom of the table winning only 2 games that year after the grading phase.

Not a real shock when you think how many were in the first team

Fair point Sherlock.