Impossible to say really. Some players look great at age grade level and can’t make the step up to senior rugby.

After a couple of quiet years, it sounds as though we have a good crop of youngsters coming through.

If I had to pick a club who seems to be developing its own players very nicely, it’s hard to look past Sale. Even if you take the Currys as a class apart, they still have a good pipeline of youngsters with Luke James, Postlethwaite, Warr and Reed all featuring last season. Redpath surely would have done too but for injury. When you also consider that a good chunk of their current 23 is homegrown (Harrison, Beaumont, Sam James etc.), they’re clearly getting something right.

Alex Shaw seems to have a good knowledge of this type of thing