Westerman and Myler were blooded in the National League.

There is more chance Davies and Vievers getting a game at Wakefield as they are running with a thin squad with little depth next year. Davies is up against 5/6 from what i hear maybe even 7 other Props, he will be 5th choice at Wakefield not 8th.

How do young players get a chance other than injuries in this day and age......in all sports? 90% of the time it is due to injury.

They will get exposure to SL games but not be relied on week in week out, they will however have more of a chance at getting game time than they would at Wigan should injuries kick in.

The only thing you can be sure of in rugby is that injuries will happen and younger lads will get a chance its the nature of the beast, in truth it is very hard to plan, because of the very nature of the sport.

By going on loan they are bridging the gap between the poor reserves and SL.

I am not sure what point you do raise that i have not responded to could you do it more clearly than hide it in quotes which are annoying to read please.

On the last point you are chosing to believe rumour when it suits you but not when it does not.

I think the problem at Wigan is that we have so many youngsters knocking on the first team door, compared to most other clubs, that it is virtually impossible to give a decent blooding to them all without seriously weakening the team (no matter how poorly they have performed at time over the past three years or so).

I would dearly like to bring them all on at Wigan but take the pragmatic view that we can't, so why not allow some to go to other clubs. I believe it has worked well with Joel Tomkins, Mossop, Flanagan, and Goulding. If Wigan also believe it has worked why not carry on doing it?

It's a lot harder to blood young players in your own team as there are no easy games anymore except the Challenge Cup where Tomkins and Mossop made their debut.

We've been beat off Celtic this year who are the bottom club in the league so that shows you have to be at full strength every game so by loaning young lads out maybe for half a season you are blooding them out of the way and taking away the risk of losing, destroying their confindence, fans getting on their backs etc.

In hindsight we should have loaned Pryce out for a few months before he even made his debut for us because now the lad can do no right and his confidence is shot.

Loaning players to NL 1 clubs and other SL clubs is working look at Joel Tomkins, Flannagan, Moore, Halley.

With our club as big as it is (que the trolls) the pressure on the youngsters will be big so we need to take that away whilst they gain confidence with playing against the big boys. I'm not saying wrap them up in cotton wool but in some circumstances it is better to let them mature and develop out of the limelight and pressure at Wigan.

Next season :-

Pryce to Widnes (Month to month basis)
Davies to Widnes (Month to month)
Goulding to Salford (Week to week basis)
Ainscough to Wakefield (Week to week basis)

I'll look forward to Davies showing Fielden up next season. Top move for Ben and Wigan though. Just look at what Kear gets out of Moore, Bibey and Korki week in week out. I would expect him to play first team, don't expect him to go there to play reserves when he can do that at Wigan.

I do think Davies will play reserves at Wakey with a bench spot when injuries occur. He is IMO too young to play prop week in, week out.
Prop is generally a position for mature battle hardened players, younger props do find themselves in and out of a team.

The use of our younger players by Noble is and will be a source of disagreement. Tomkins is 20 in his first season in SL and can cope with it. Could he have done as well at the age of 18? I very much doubt it.
Giving him 20 first team games at that age could have wrecked him. There were some who wanted him in last year when Lockers was injured with Barrett going to 13 and Sam in at 6. Would it have worked? Possibly.

Ainscough came in after last year being in the U18s and 21s. His try scoring ability is brilliant, he a natural wingman. He's a lot to learn in defence but there are many of us who will remember at the start of SL Jason Robinson getting murdered under the high bomb. He improved and it didn't stop him nor will it or should it stop Ainscough who, again IMO, is equally as talented.

As for our backrowers in the reserves, Farrell etc. So who would we drop?
Hock, Bails & Lockers were our back three at the start of the season and injuries would see Hansen & Joel come in. No doubt some would put Farrell in there but would we if we were losing more than we were winning which happened at the start of the season. Farrell's inclusion wouldn't have won us matches which we lost.

It has been mentioned above that we now have so many pushing for a first team place and many can't be fitted in especially when we need to win every game after the disastrous start to our season.

Any decision to bring in a younger player has to be equalled by a decision to leave a first team player out. That is rarely done and why injuries are the main reason why younger players are promoted at all clubs in most sports.

The best way of promoting younger players would be for the competition rules to force clubs to play them. In as much as each named squad of 17 must have x number of players who are under, say, 20 years of age. Then every club would have to comply and no club would be disadvantaged.