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NEIL Kelly sees youth development as a major element in his strategy.

The new Centurions coach says he wants the club to produce and develop as many of their own players as possible.

He says: "I don't see the future in overseas players or players from other parts of the country, albeit they may be needed and valued in the short term.

"I see, like I saw when I was at Widnes, we very much went in the long term to go for home grown players, and if not from Widnes from very close geographically to Widnes. I feel very much the same at Leigh.

"It's great if there's good young talent coming through already and we've got to look at maybe in the long term building on the scholarship and creating our own Service Area and becoming autonomous from Wigan in that respect. For the short term it's going to continue in the same way.

"We've got to build on those sorts of things. In my eyes I'm not just coming in to build just the team up, although that is one of the objectives, I'm coming in to build on the foundations like I said and build a strong academy set-up, a strong schoolboy set-up and one that sees the professional side link closely into the community, which it may already do.

"If that is the case I'm right behind it. If it doesn't I'm very keen to build links."

1:09pm Wednesday 7th May 2008

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