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Interesting chart I found. Seems kinda accurate apart from Sale have the red and green bars mixed up.
What's the source?
Also, can you remember from that horrible public mission statement what our target was in terms of squad balance?
ETA, that thing was more recent than i thought, so caught in the current Bath thread. 50% "home grown" was an announced target, with a further proportion of English assumed rather than stated. you also have to wonder what "home grown" counts as.
Is Henry Thomas home grown? Hes's a Bath boy, but left before hitting the senior academy. Are Zach Mercer &/ Anthony Watson home grown? both were pfficially signed to the academy, Watson "graduating" during preseason, Zach getting good game-time in that 1 year.
How about Ross Batty or Semesa Rokoduguni? Both arrived as seniors, both plucked from obscurity 10 and 8 years ago.
Unquestionably home-grown:
Doughty, Dunn, Catt, Vaughan, Ewells, Spencer, Bayliss, Ellis, Reid.
De Glanville, Clarke, Hamer-Webb, Atkins.
Signed to academy:
Obano, Mercer
Fox, Green, Wright, Watson*
Plucked from "obscurity":
Batty, Judge*, Walker*
McConnochie, Rokoduguni
"Local" boy, not our academy:
Stuart, Thomas
Matevesi
From a squad of 40
13 are unquestionable
14 more could be claimed with varying amounts of spin