: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:36 am  

ritz wrote:

Producing young players who look good doesnt mean they gonna turn out to be any good, karl pryce looked brill in academy and scored loads, but he aint turned out that good.

Why is it always leeds and saints who get mentioned about their junior developement, bulls have developed more than saints, more bulls academy reared players played for england in aus than saints.

Sykes, pryce, peacock, langley compared to roby, graham and wellens..unless you insist on counting gardner(barrow) and wilkin(hull kr) as most posters do.
Plus burgess would have played if not injured, poss deacs as backup if not injured, fielden if form hadnt dropped.

How about Cunningham ?

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:05 pm  

No1_Saints _Fan wrote:

How about Cunningham ?

I think he's talking about the England World Cup team.

But why anyone would want to be associated with that mob beggars belief.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:27 pm  

ritz wrote:

Why is it always leeds and saints who get mentioned about their junior developement,

if you look at leeds 1st team squad at the moment i think it is a pretty impressive advert for their youth development. i noticed when i watched their opening game againts celtic that their 17 had a fair amount of home grown talent.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:30 pm  

ritz wrote:

Producing young players who look good doesnt mean they gonna turn out to be any good, karl pryce looked brill in academy and scored loads, but he aint turned out that good.

Why is it always leeds and saints who get mentioned about their junior developement, bulls have developed more than saints, more bulls academy reared players played for england in aus than saints.

Sykes, pryce, peacock, langley compared to roby, graham and wellens..unless you insist on counting gardner(barrow) and wilkin(hull kr) as most posters do.
Plus burgess would have played if not injured, poss deacs as backup if not injured, fielden if form hadnt dropped.

I thought skyes was from london

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:47 pm  

deacon isnt from bradford either

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:56 pm  

joe d saint wrote:

I thought skyes was from london

He was born in Dewsbury but came through the Bradford academy, went to Quinns and then came back to Bradford.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:57 pm  

joe d saint wrote:

I thought skyes was from london

Sykes is a Bradford academy product.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:39 pm  

SAINT ANDREW wrote:

deacon isnt from bradford either

No but because of when he started playing for us, over 3yrs before he was 21, then he is classed as homegrown, hence bulls developed.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:04 pm  

ritz wrote:

No but because of when he started playing for us, over 3yrs before he was 21, then he is classed as homegrown, hence bulls developed.

yeeeeaaah but he's not really is he? you no it and i know it.

: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:50 pm  

SAINT ANDREW wrote:

yeeeeaaah but he's not really is he? you no it and i know it.

Deacon comes from Wigan but was signed from Oldham.