Academy Graduate's XV

[Which Tyler]

Just something I've been playing with in my head, coming to the fore with Bath's team announcement v Munster.
What's the "best" XV your club could put out, using only players who came through your academy?
For the sake of starting point to the discussion - must have been playing age-grade rugby whilst at your club - so that rules out "well, technically"s like Guy Pepper, although it will still leave younger movers.

Bath:
1. Obano*
2. Dunn
3, AGriffin
4. Ewels
5. Richards
6. Bayliss
7. Staddon
8. Reid

09. Carr-Smith
10. Donoghue
11. SHarris
12. Butt
13. Ojomoh
14. Offiah*
15. De Glanville

16. Tuipulotu*/Frost, 17. Kirk, 18. Sela, 19. Cuckson, 20. Green
21. Le Roux*, 22. Linegar, 23. Hennessey

* Well, technically...
Obano arrived aged 19 after being rejected by Wasps
Offiah arrived aged 17 ater LIrish went bust
Tuipulotu arrived aged 18 after LIrish went bust
Le Roux came during the 2024 6N a couple of months before his 21st (I thought he was a year younger when I included him - if this is too much of a technicality, then it's Mears Jr here)




For the sake of discussion, I'd be happy putting that XV out in the Prem, and any individual from the bench - though the bench as a whole is fine for PWR, but a bit green for the Prem itself.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I’ll have a go at the Saints team but have a feeling we have a few positions missing where we fail to produce players.

1 Manny
2 Wright
3 Tiny
4 Prowse
5 Lockett
6 Coles
7 benson
8 pollock
9 Mitchell
10 Furbank
11 sleightholme
12 Hutchinson
13 Dingwall
14 Freeman
15 Hendy


Apart from tight head I could really see us putting out that team after a few injuries. While we have endless centres, wingers and scrum halves from the academy, we have few props, few back row and no fly halves.

But that’s a good 15 who would trouble most teams.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

9 Mitchell

(I kid I kid)

Some positions for Sale are a bit of a stretch these days, conveyor belt at hooker and lock not great for experience

Rodd, Caine, AOF*
Burrow, Bamber* (if he counts, bit of a weird one as he started the game so late - came to us as academy but above age grade)
Curry, Curry, Dugdale
Warr, Curtis
Reed, RMW*, Bedlow, Roebuck
Carpenter

Longstaff, McIntyre, Harper, Hogg*, Woodman, Quirke, Davies, Wills

As above, this isn't a side beyond the realms of comprehension tbh, most of these combinations have played

 

[Rinkadink]

Bamber,

Was from the Bristol Bears academy so doesn't meet the thread criteria for Sale?

Borrowing this from the unoffy forum (but editing out Harding as he came from Bucs to senior Academy at 20 or something) which also uses current academy;

1. Genge
2. Capon
3. Kloska
4. Dun
5. Owen
6. Taylor
7. K Jenkins
8. Pearce
9. Gealy
10. Worsley
11. Bates
12. Worsnip
13. J Jenkins
14. Boshoff
15. Morris

16. Gwilliam
17. Trevett
18. Halliwell
19. Surrey
20.
21.
22. Baker
23.

Could definitely improve the side further if we allowed for players who have left for other clubs but that's the current look. Pretty solid in spite of the disgraceful catchment area restructuring and inequality.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Was from the Bristol Bears academy so doesn't meet the thread criteria for Sale?

Signed to our academy though, so meets the apostrophe mark of the OP - otherwise Mitchell can't be Saints

 

[Geordie]

I can do one for every Falcon graduate whos now at other clubs

I wouldnt even attempt a current one for us.

 

[Rinkadink]

Signed to our academy though, so meets the apostrophe mark of the OP - otherwise Mitchell can't be Saints

IIRC Sam Bedlow may have been initially signed to the Bristol Academy when he first arrived - probably for the credits? Definitely wouldn't call him our academy product though.

 

[Which Tyler]

I can do one for every Falcon graduate whos now at other clubs

I wouldnt even attempt a current one for us.

When I posed the same question on the unoffy.s I thought it would be cruel to include Newcastle.

Would be genuinely interested in seeing your list of departed academy graduates though (which is not an excuse for everyone else to do it, the main purpose is to see what sort of team could actually be put out by a club)

 

[Geordie]

When I posed the same question on the unoffy.s I thought it would be cruel to include Newcastle.

Would be genuinely interested in seeing your list of departed academy graduates though (which is not an excuse for everyone else to do it, the main purpose is to see what sort of team could actually be put out by a club)

Well our current one would be something like this

1 Adam Brocklebank
2 George McGuigan
3 Mickey Rewcastle (Current Academy, LH but can cover TH in emergency)
4 Oscar Usher (21, Big Hope)
5 Adam Scott / Fin Baker (Both Current Academy)
6 Rueben Parsons (Current Academy, Mark Wilson Mk2)
7 Charlie Turnbull (Current Academy)
8 Freddie Lockwood

9 Joe Davis (Current Academy)
10 Brett Connon
11 Nathan Greenwood (Current Academy)
12 Junior Newton (Current Academy, FH who can play 12)
13 Rhys Beeckmans (Current Academy)
14 Oli Spencer (Talented centre currently playing wing due to lack of any)
15 Ajay Edwards (Junior Academy, England U18 Full back)

Jeez its even worse than i thought...

At least we have a lots of quality young kids coming through