I'll be honest I'm only starting this topic because this year my club Wakefield have done quite well when in the past we have not. None the less it's interesting enough.



Name the players indoor squad who have come through your Academy into the first team.



I will accept players who moved over you your club as under 19's and players who left you but have returned so long as they were in the first team at some point (includes cup games).



In order of games played.



Regulars



Tom Johnstone

Kyle Wood

Max Jowitt

Chris Anakin



All made first team debut



Jordan Crowther

James Batchelor

Rob Moules

Judah Mazive



Yet to debut



Frazer Morris



Non Academy players who were signed young from other clubs and spent most of their careers with us/you - they don't count but are worth a mention.



Reece Lyne

Joe Ardudal

Anthony Walker

Jon Molloy



9 or roughly 30% of the squad all of whom imho are SL capable to varying degrees is not bad. I'll be happier when it's neared 40% which I personally think is about the best most teams can do and be competitive.



There is a bit of a myth in RL that teams used to be made up totally of local young lads. Thats not true, half is probably the best you can really manage and stay competitive, yes there will be exceptions (Wigan spring to mind at the moment) but generally clubs have always signed players from all over the place.

[uRegulars[/u

Michael Shenton

Greg Eden

Andy Lynch

Adam Milner

Oliver Holmes

Nathan Massey



[uAll made debuts[/u

Ash Robson

Tom Holmes

Kieran Gill

Will Maher

Brandon Douglas

Conor Fitzsimmoms

Brandon Westerman

Declan Sheenan

Luke Million



50% of squad.

How about adding on players currently playing in SL, but at other clubs now, that have come through the club? That would give a good indication as to what clubs contribute most to the league and which clubs just take from others? Could be interesting reading.

Hull FC



Shaul, Houghton, Hadley, Green, Bowden, Washbrook - regulars and would expect to all play 20+ games.



Logan, Lancaster, Fash, Turgut, Downs, Matongo - squad members but have all made their debut.



12/28 - 43%





Thompson, Naughton, Watts, Rawsthorne, Connor, Taylor, Sneyd, Griffin, Ellis - other English players.



Fonua, Tuimavave, Manu, Minichiello, Talanoa, Michaels, Kelly - overseas.

No problem with that, but in the case of Cas and Wakey it may be worth excluding Championship teams else we'll be here all day

Thats pretty good and about the max I'd say, paid dividends for you hasn't it.

Out of interest as I don't really know how it works - how many are from the joint Academy and technically do they count as a 1/2 because of the HKR connection - not that it makes a huge difference.

Probably!

None, yet.



I think all of those mentioned are too old (I think) to have played in the CoH academy, which only started in 2016.



The situation with the academy is that all the players initially were "ring-fenced" when the merger took place, depending on which club they came from. Once this works it's way through in a couple of years, it will move to a draft system I believe.

From the 2017 squad numbers:



[uHomegrown + Regulars[/u



S Tomkins, Manfredi, Gildart, Burgess, Williams, McIlorum, J Tomkins, L Farrell, O'Loughlin, Powell, Sutton, Tierney



[uHomegrown + Played First Team[/u



Gregson, Bretherton, Shorrocks, C Farrell, Wells, Higginson, Shelford, M Davies

[u

Homegrown + Yet To Debut[/u



Forsyth, Ganson, Fell, Marshall, T Davies, Field, Barnes



27/37 there



The other 10 being:



Gelling, Leuluai, Nu'uasala, Flower, Bateman, Clubb, Tautai, Isa, Escare, Navarrete

It'll be interesting to see Toronto's, given what they are there for.

Just out of interest are they all signed as full time players as opposed to under 19's because 37 is a huge squad.