Are they australians too?

One of them is.

Agree on the big baby thing. And it can't have been mums cooking as he didn't slim down any while here. Agree on the banging anything in sight would have carried on till it dropped off!!

Don't agree, for the (relatively) short time we have been in SL we have made massive strides with our youth teams. Do you watch any u20 or U18 games?

by looks of it, Hull KR fans will be getting soaked on Sunday

1. Brent Webb
2. Lee Smith
3. Brett Delaney
5. Ryan Hall
6. Danny McGuire
7. Rob Burrow
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Danny Buderus
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
12. Carl Ablett
13. Kevin Sinfield
14. Ali Lauitiiti
16. Ryan Bailey
17. Ian Kirke
18. Luke Burgess
20. Weller Hauraki
24. Paul McShane
27. Zak Hardaker

I guess Cross must have shagged BMD's wife, because even when we have two props potentially backing up with 2 games in 3 days, and another who hasn't played for weeks, he can't even make the gameday squad...

Also still no Clarkson????

Hauraki and McShane to drop out for me.

Senior is now the only 1-17 not in the squad, so no excuses with injuries either this week.

Loving that this thread has managed to turn into a slanging match over youth development. Not.

In fairness to HKR, while several posters have acknowledged that they need to (and have begun to) up their game in the youth set-up, they have given some young British lads a chance at times in their career when they struggled to get first team RL at other clubs (Murrell, Fox and Netherton spring to mind immediately) and turned them into very solid SL players and even international contenders. A few less Aussies in the pack would be nice, but if you're behind the pace on that front you can't catch up over night.

To be honest, if you look at where Rovers were 10-12 yars ago, at a time when their cross-town neighbours were getting all sorts of leg-ups, I think they've done a pretty good job so far.

Burgess and Hauraki for me with how he has been picking the team.

So Mr. McDermott has been regularly complaining about not having the opportunity to rest Sinfield, and publicly declared that he's worried about a man who's played every single minute of every single game this season, and stated (quite rightly) that he's unlikely to produce his best work if he's in desperate need of a rest, and that he's risking more serious/longer term injury if playing with fatigue...

and this same man then picks him to play 2 games in 3 days, when McGuire & Burrow (Replacement Playmakers) aren't playing for England, and Clarkson (Replacement Loose) is left out entirely?