Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:04 am  

Mirfieldbull wrote:

I think CK would be in the team in front of Hamer definitely and I don't think Addy would be anywhere near the first 17.

I personally would see Alan Redfearn in front of Harkin, and going further back Tony Fisher would have to be with a shout as hooker, if anyone can remember him!!!!

I wasn't suggesting Addy and Kopczak would make the top table, rather that they are international players and the RFL should reward clubs who develop Academy players into internationals in some way.We got next to nothing for developing Bateman, Whitehead, Ferres, Kopczak, the three Burgess brothers and Atkins, These are just the internationals and don't include Addy who is rumoured to heading for the exit.

We developed them and the rich clubs pick them up for next to nothing.That is business, but where is the incentive for the likes of Bradford to continue to develop the next generation of top international quality talent?

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:39 am  

billypop wrote:

I wasn't suggesting Addy and Kopczak would make the top table, rather that they are international players and the RFL should reward clubs who develop Academy players into internationals in some way.We got next to nothing for developing Bateman, Whitehead, Ferres, Kopczak, the three Burgess brothers and Atkins, These are just the internationals and don't include Addy who is rumoured to heading for the exit.

We developed them and the rich clubs pick them up for next to nothing.That is business, but where is the incentive for the likes of Bradford to continue to develop the next generation of top international quality talent?

I remember you howling in anguish when you took Andy Lynch, Wayne Godwin, Michael Platt from Cas for diddly squat.

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:08 am  

tigertot wrote:

I remember you howling in anguish when you took Andy Lynch, Wayne Godwin, Michael Platt from Cas for diddly squat.

Surely his comments are merely suggesting that Cas should have been rewarded for that too?

[Bulliac]

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:19 am  

The incentive is just that you hope they stay for a while before they inexorably rise higher. The days of cash transfers are pretty much done, of course, so no solace there. As a lower division club, we are just a waypoint, a place for a young player to pass through on the way to their proper station in life. Just how it is, I'm afraid.

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:02 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

Surely his comments are merely suggesting that Cas should have been rewarded for that too?

Perhaps it just took a bit of time for him to realise.

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:59 am  

Did Henderson Gill start at bradford ? If so not a bad shout for a winger

[Pumpetypump]

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:11 am  

Chris Bridge? Rob Parker maybe. Do we need to start a a second team.....

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:16 am  

Pumpetypump wrote:

Chris Bridge? Do we need to start a a second team.....

Got him from Oldham I think. Although we will have been the first team he played in the seniors for.

[Bullseye]

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:20 am  

I thought it was Deacon we got from Oldham.

Bridge was in the Hudders academy and then joined our academy I think.

Henderson Gill is a great shout.

Re: Best of Bradford/Home Grown : Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:24 am  

Bullseye wrote:

I thought it was Deacon we got from Oldham.

Bridge was in the Hudders academy and then joined our academy I think.

Having looked it up, he played amateur rugby in Oldham, before joining Huddersfield pro when he was 16. So yes, you're right, but I knew there was an Oldham link in there somewhere!