Wires71 wrote:1) Must be true. The amount of young players that break through into the side, play 30+ games, then end up leaving to lower RL clubs is very high. Our conversion rate is very low.
Or it could be that they just aren't good enough players, ie we don't identify and sign up players of the required talent.
If the problem was that we were bringing through genuine talent, but unable to take it to the next level ourselves, then guys who we released would get picked up by other clubs and show us what they can do in the right environment.
Of those young players that you mention who have come through in to our team and played 30+ games, how many would have played that many games at Wigan, Saints or Leeds (bearing in mind the competition they would have had from the young players at those clubs).