Paul Youane wrote:
Interesting to see a contender for worst post of the season before the season has even started.
Which youngsters have broke through since the departure of John Bastian? We haven't even played a single competitive game yet.
Can you also list out all the "Warrington talent" breaking through at Wigan and Saints especially the ones that were on our books and moved on.
Talking absolute rubbish again.
It's interesting that John Bastian was highly successful at Leeds and Tony Smith brought him to us, we had an Academy Grand Final win a couple of years ago but when he was here you would get a few complaints every off season on here about how we were releasing top talent, Warrington only wanted lads that were big and fit and ignored skill, and our players were getting signed up by other clubs and would come back to haunt us.
We hear this every year. But none of these players who get signed up by the likes of Wigan or Saints ever come back and haunt us. Fancy that! I expect the excuse is, when they were driven away by Warrington's bad management, their confidence was ruined, or it put them off rugby league, and they were lost to the game....
Most likely what happens is every year a few lads get released because our coaching staff don't think they're good enough to make it with us, and disgruntled parents/family come on here and complain about it. If they get picked up as squad padding by other clubs they use it as justification that they were obviously great players.
But I could be wrong. Anybody in the know able to make predictions of 2 or 3 Warrington lads that were released in the last few years who will go on to be top SL players at other clubs? Or even one?
