that's true Frankie but if we have a reserve team and other teams have one has well they will get more games at the level they need to be if called for

When I was a much younger idiot than I am now I used to go to all the A team games. I used to look forward to seeing my favourite players breaking in to the first team but sadly few did, at least on a regular basis. At the time I put it down to not being given a chance and fell out with the club. Missed quite a few years which of course coincided with their most successful period, based I think mainly on imported players. So they were right and I was wrong, not an unusual state of affairs. But much as I would like to see our home grown talent prosper, how many have made it big with other clubs? I'm already regretting asking the question with its obvious replies from our friends across the river, there may be one or two who have prospered there. Anyway, just in case this thread doesn't disintegrate into them & us, a serious question. As I grew up we used to say Hull was a "hotbed" of rugby league, so why aren't there more Hull lads at the top?

Because and I hate to say this but their is a lot more for players to do now instead of playing rugby league when I first started watching rugby league in my 20s I am 71 now that's all their was in HUll that and taking the young girls out back in the good old days

Be interesting to see who does make it. You are right, the hype around some players does get crazy, but to be fair with HTW he did everything as a youth but appears for whatever reason to have not have kicked on. Jansin Turgut was England Captain but will he make it at FC - time will tell. Often the least hyped youngsters are the ones that actually make it, weirdly.
That Will Oakes looks a prospect and a half, and I think Lawler is a good player who will make it in SL. Not seen enough of Rovers youngsters to judge myself, they were my mates thoughts

Players just mature at different rates, I guess, and picking who will make it from a bunch of 16 or 18 year olds will always be a guessing game. However, from any promising group, it's a fair bet that most won't make it, in terms of having a long top flight career. And it's nothing new - the Rovers official history published a little while ago lists every player to have played for the club. Loads of them played just once or twice, even way back when.
Like J.W Foster, a forward who played 2 games in January 1924 - but here I am mentioning him more than 90 years on. 1 or 2 games is still an achievement.