Quote MattyB="MattyB"I will say it again. When you allow quality to leave year on year and you only replace with youth then at one point it all goes downhill.'"
I 100% agree!
We all want a 17 full of home grown players but in real life you've got to be very lucky to get a group to come thru.
Saints tried it when we stopped bringing quality players in and went with youth like Tyrer, foster, ashurst, Dixon etc etc and we even tried two Young halved in lomax and Gaskell.
It didn't turn around until Brown brought in the likes of Amor, walsh, Mose, turner, walmsley, burns, Vea to add to the likes of Lomax, Makinson, Percival, Thompson, Richards, Savelio.
The balance has to be right!