The City Reds' future appears very bright and both McRae and football director Steve Simms are delighted with what they see coming off the club's production line.
Simms spoke of his excitement at seeing a rich crop of young players emerging. He firmly believes this is the best and only way to guarantee stability and long term success.
Rival clubs such as Wigan, Leeds and St Helens have benefited in the past and now Salford are reaping the rewards.
McRae's first-team squad includes a sizable sprinkling of multi-talented teenage stars who have come through the system at The Willows.
They now have the chance to show what they can do in the heat of battle. Simms told MEN Sport: "It is extremely pleasing to see so many talented youngsters coming through. We are working with these lads day-in, day-out, and realise their potential. We honestly feel they are as good as anything around in the game right now.
"I am used to a system in Australia where the development of young players is greatly encouraged. You have to start at the bottom to produce these players and you have to put the right structures and plans in place. We have done this and are seeing the results.
"Shaun McRae comes from a similar environment and we firmly believe if a player is good enough it does not matter how old he is, they will get their chance. They simply need self belief and they will be helped, encouraged and given great guidance.
"We have brought in the best players from within our network and beyond, they have had a good grounding, we have a first-class scouting system and then these players benefit from working with Alan Hunte.
Blend
"It is good to see the emergence of young talent, you have to give youth the chance and we feel there is a good blend within the squad. The senior professionals know only too well these youngsters are so keen to make their mark and this makes for healthy competition right across the board. We have worked hard to make sure lads are coming through - Jordan Turner is a perfect example of the progress. He's a very exciting prospect and there are others. Luke Adamson has done well, Jason Walton has been promoted to the squad and young Luke Ambler is another to come through.
"Lee Jewitt is a player with a great deal of potential and we've seen already this season how Richard Myler and Stefan Ratchford have gone into the first team and made their mark. They are competing well and this again shows talent is coming through. We are very pleased with the junior set-up because it is geared to seeing the development of players. With the Rugby Football League intent on encouraging the emergence of home-grown talent, Reds results in terms of producing players is even more pleasing.
Simms added: "It is even more important now to bring these kids through and this is what we are doing. We have very high hopes for a number of the young players."
Reds kicked off their Northern Rail Cup campaign on Sunday with a comfortable win over Rochdale and will host neighbours Oldham on Friday.
Against Rochdale, new Aussie signing Chris Borgese again made his mark as an impact player. He has been likened to Leeds star Rob Burrow by Steve Simms due to his size and can play at half back.
Borgese does however have another string to his bow and is being groomed as a back up hooker for inspirational skipper Mal Alker.
Salford seem to be thinking on similar lines as St Helens used to do when Mickey Higham served as understudy to Keiron Cunningham during Ian Millward's reign at Knowsley Road.
Higham would often come on to inject spark and this seems to be the case with Borgese.
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