Quote ="Father Ted"You've got to start with your youth system.
Get good coaches in at the U16s & 19s level.
Hull is a massive RL city with loads of lads playing at all levels. How many Hull born lads where in your 17 yesterday?
When Shaun Wane returned to the Wigan club in 2002/3 he came in as U18s coach. Lam was the then U21s coach. They both set about coaching to win. Wane moved to the U21's as coach when Lam departed.
Under Wane's coaching they topped their League six time, I believe, winning 5 GF's in a row. Those "Kids" played yesterday.
S Tomkins, Charnley, Thornley, Mossop, Farrell, Tuson.
You have a great RL city and if a town the size of Wigan can do it so can HullFC.
Our current U19s may well win their league and the young lads who have made their debuts this year like Hampshire, Tierney, Williams and Burgess from the U19s have not been coached at all by Wane. He went from the youth system 2010 and others took over the culture.
Yesterday Wigan had eleven players from their academy in the squad and two overseas players.
As I said if Wigan can do it so can HullFC. You have numbers we haven't and the quality must be there. It just needs to be found and developed.
Best of Luck!'"
Which shows that its the culture of Wigan to win things not just be happy to get to finals