Isn’t Austin a winger when it comes to international selection?

Austin is an Aussie.

Let's us know when they decide to turn up

As far as I can see clubs who run the player development systems certainly DO give their young pivotal players opportunities. The problem appears to be there aren't many of them about. Some say it's the emphasis on size and strength that has made it difficult for the smaller skillfull players. Lilley got a lot of time at Leeds IIRC. Richardson is getting a second chance at Cas?

Desperate club..blimey heard it all now..think Widnes are a desperate club..desperate to get back in the top division...

Yes, and Leeds gave Walker plenty of game-time too, to be fair.
Cas seem to be prioritising a young core of English players (a spine of Evalds, Richardson, Trueman and McShane in 2021) too.
Thinking about Warrington too, they did give Dec Patton a good opportunity. Maybe I was over-critical.

He cant be, I definitely saw him in an England shirt


Mind you, I also though he was a HB and while wearing the England shirt, I'm sure that I saw him "playing" on the wing - probably my eyesight.

Evalds is 27 in a couple of months, McShane is 30. What's your definition of young these days?

How many England players have turned up in the last 15 years at an international level?

whether it fits the cas fans argument.


although we could spin it another way, why aren't cas prepared to give a young fb or hooker the chance to make a name in their spine instead of going out and signing players from smaller clubs yada yada.

it's all the same merry go round.

he really crapped himself in the foot with his question.

you could throw jack hughes in there at loose as well.

Hill as well. Ben Currie in the back row...

well to be fair, he's talking about spines, its just a little churlish that cos this season they've got 2 young english starlet halfbacks we're getting the "why can't everyone do what cas is doing' mantra.

from a team that previously had luke dorn, bretty seymou, ben roberts, rangi chase, peter matautia, Gary Lo, and Quentin La-lau Tonga-lae (gave up halfway through, sue me if its wrong) as parts of their spine.

It's easy to point fingers (fun too)

Mate, anything under 40 falls into the spring chicken bracket these days!

In fairness, I have posted that I might have been overly-critical. Wire have given Dec Patton plenty of opportunities too - maybe they wouldn’t have needed to sign Widdop if he had developed.

Going a bit further back, just using halves , we had myler and briers for 4 years.

Then struggled to replace briers, with a merry go round of ratch myler bridge and o'Brien for a few years, and Patton was added to that at an early age. then realising it wasnt working we plumped for kurt gidley and sandow,

Great Britain

What a stupid comment, he didn't pick himself for the wing


He was picked out of position like alot of the squad, by a coach who made absolutely bizzarre squad choices.

A certain New Zealand international, World Cup winner may be up for grabs soon as well

I have taken a break from the Wire board until i can congratulate them on winning the Grand Final , but deary me are they delusional on how much Inglis will be getting paid !

Some of us have quite close connections to the club, but we won't betray confidences, so nothing delusional about it. Also, Sky's RL team confirmed on the Rugby League Show yesterday that Inglis 'wont even be in the top few earners at Warrington'.

Yeh and i have close connections at Headingley , but they would never tell me what anyone was earning !

Ploiner rhino has proper got his knickers in a twist over this

Theres about 5 people would know what he's on.

Karl Fitzpatrick
Inglis and his agent
Simon Moran
The Salary Cap manager/accountant

And all those who know somebody at the club