We know our youth have been seriously lacking in recent years, the new chairman has put steps into to place to rectify this unfortunately it does not happen overnight. In time I am sure our youth policy will be very good and produce some of the stars of the future.

As for the 80's youth policies were poor throughout rugby league and the top teams just cherry picked the best players and slung them together with Aussies/Kiwis.

This.

A quick tour of these boards will reveal that pretty much every team thinks Sky in general and Clurkey in particular have it in for them. The logical conclusion is that they're just morons who like to say the odd controversial thing to get a reaction.

It's OK though, Clurkey has his unnecessary graphics and spurious stats to back him up, in his bid to sound like an insightful analyst of the game. A bid which has so far fooled nobody except the Sky Sports producers.

Clarky has a short memory when Wigan was struggling at the bottom of the league they didnt bring young players.
They went out and bought players and broke the salary cap just to stay up .

What's happened to his margin metre?

I think Hull are borrowing it to assist with their training sessions rather than developing their own system

It's keeping his hemorrhoids in place!

But surely that would render him unable to speak.

He always sounds to me he has sinus trouble.

Would have been nice if Teddy or Dipstick had reminded him of this.

The Manu comment was a pathetic jibe from Clarke, any player who has spent that amount of time at a club will be missed when he leaves. Would Wigan fans not be sad to lose Richards?

As for the loan signing of Russell, what about Leeds signing Lint when they had two bookers already?

He's normally better than that.

He will never beat his "Some tries should be worth eight points."

He forgot to add "especially when they're scored by Wigan".

I actually think he was talking about Warrington. I remember him saying that they deserved more points because they scored better tries.

Beating the world champs is a good start, but it only gets you two league points, the bigger picture lies in the under 20s and under 18s where you conceed 60 and 80 points. As far as youth developement goes your light years behind. Three years ago Wigan Identified why Leeds were so forward as a club in comparison, they have changed there approach and backed the youth system more and hey presto they are now challenging the Rhinos. Its not rocket science, while you allow players like Brisco to leave like he did, things will never change.

no bitterness there then

When you want to tell us something we [udon't[/u know, feel free to come back

Quote ="Chris28"When you want to tell us something we [udon't[/u know, feel free to come back'" didnt our u20s beat the whinos u20s last year at headingley?? www.therhinos.co.uk/rugby/17009.php

Quote ="Chris28"When you want to tell us something we [udon't[/u know, feel free to come back'" didnt our u20s beat the whinos u20s last year at headingley?? www.therhinos.co.uk/rugby/17009.php

Your spot on and Adam Pearson has mentioned this numerous times about the lack of investment in the youth set up,coaching facilities etc from the last board and he has invested heavily recently, but this will take time to filter through.
One thing i noticed when i have watched the under 20/18s is the size difference, London,Wigan whoever have looked bigger and faster, our lads have the heart but got beat by more physical players. Now with our new set up hopefully we will catch up.
I think while Adams here the Briscoe fiasco wont happen again.