This board is like your club. It's inactive, boring, small time and full of thugs.

Club of the year after your semi final disgrace lol

Get a life and I think you are boring now, and not all are thugs at all.

Intelligent response, well done.

Thanks

ha ha

Widnes currently have 30+ Widnes born lads at u13s age training twice a week a with the Academy staff at the stadium, they dont need to send out scouts they bring all the lads in so they have a look at everyone, not just the few that might catch the scouts eye on any given Sunday.

I know they have and it's called the pathway system. It was discussed in the meeting I was in attendance. They also train at Cowley in st Helen's with saints. Both are open to any child in that age range so the is good players and some woeful players.

I can also tell you that 4 of them lads are being looked at by saints, Wigan and Warrington. Two of them I have no doubt will be snapped up and it won't be for Widnes.

Who cares

Not Widnes so it seems. It's a football town now.

So what Rugby is a minority sport and is in St Helens too. So your point of view is bull.

Double winners and also have many many bike grown players so my point stands.

gNot really and if you say so in your world. The size of your Town should be getting 30,000 on average. Most Towns are full of footballers and Widnes is a third of the size of St Helens. Why you coming on here anyway, as your opinion does not matter to Widnes, and congratulations on double winners with much more years in Superleague , and more money to spend. You deserve a medal for pointing out something I did not know about, and also i do not care about. I also see nobody is d with your view points and twiddle back to your board on negative points.

That's the sort of attitude that puts Widnes in a poor category of producing youth. For a club with Widnes history I find it pretty shocking that currently the is only 2/3 Widnes lads playing in super league.

Grass roots rugby is what keeps rugby going and Widnes turn a blind eye to it. You qoute keep spending the money which I find completely laughable when last season our squad had pleanty of English and homegrown players.

Lomax, swift, jones, Percival, makinson, wellens, Roby, Thompson, Ade, wheeler, Richards, greenwood, walker, Savelio and others that played odd games all come thru our system.

turner, Flanaghan, Wilkin, Amor, walmsley, Lms are all English players that play for the club.

We also have the likes of Chris dean, Jamie foster, Paul clough, Lee Gaskell, Matty smith Jamie Ellis off the top of my head playing for other clubs.

Your correct we have spent money, we spent it on youth development.

Spent more on youth development because have more money, and your club is in the top 4 biggest clubs in Superleague. It be like Widnes comparing against Keighley.

Been new to Superleague and to produce Jack Owens, Flynn, Declan Hulme, Craven, Gerrard, Gilmore, Gore, Lawton, and others left due to money. Mullaley and Richard Myler where Widnes Academy players too. The way you are talking it is like we have zero. Anyway why does it concern you anyway?

Because I thought all this would go into consideration when selecting team of the year

You need to ask Ste O Connor and the RFL? Finances are also solid and we are progressing from the postion 4 yrs ago. Still a lot of youth in a short period of time in the top flight, and like your club not had many years in Superleague. Their is more than youth in a criteria too, and seen as you know all teams finances and business plans, I am sure you know best. Now bore off to your own board, as this is very tedious and boring.

Get over it as nearly a new season and the result stands.

Aye I'm not knocking O'conner or how well you done this year at all. I think Widnes had a great season and finished higher than most expected.

My comments are based on the grass roots and youth development of your club. You don't need masses amounts of money to scout the best local Widnes lads but you need to be out and about watching as the kids are the future of all rugby league teams.

IMO Widnes don't do enough at grass roots and Widnes have admitted this.

I was also at one of the Pathway meetings and Phil Finney admitted that in the past they hadn't done enough to scout players but were now doing things differently, hence the Pathway.

Yep that's what was said.

Is the pathway a Widnes thing or have the RFL instigated it ?

I be happy to Scout for Widnes.

Go for it mate.

About one person --- St Pete, and he writes drivel.

Yes I do care about rugby and more than your club by the looks of it but just keep getting wigans cast off u19s and stay in bottom half of the table if that's what Widnes prefer.

But you said yourself you were at the meeting where they said things had now changed, although with this new process it will take four years til this first crop of Pathway lads reach 18.

You can't beat a drama queen (unfortunately).

Yeah ok