Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:02 pm  

Gannon played in the halves when he came on didn't he?

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:39 am  

Why are we so poorly represented in the Yorkshire origin squad? I don't really follow the academy game these days.

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:43 pm  

Seth wrote:

Why are we so poorly represented in the Yorkshire origin squad? I don't really follow the academy game these days.

yes its a bit weird, we won the u18s grand final last season, and it seems quite a few of those players are still eligible for the u18s but arent selected in the squad
are they trying to select mostly u17s or something maybe?

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Tue Apr 18, 2023 7:21 pm  

The Yorkshire squad is mind boggling, unless the aim is to get hammered i just dont get it.

We should have 6 or 7 in, and that wouldnt include one of the 2 who actually did get in.

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:24 pm  

64 - 0 win for our Scholarship against Bradford tonight, Harley Thomas and Joe Diskin with 3 trys apiece

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Sat Apr 22, 2023 7:03 am  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

64 - 0 win for our Scholarship against Bradford tonight, Harley Thomas and Joe Diskin with 3 trys apiece

Quality of opposition aside there was some lovely ball movement and skill on show there. Impressive stuff.

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Mon May 01, 2023 8:00 am  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

The Yorkshire squad is mind boggling, unless the aim is to get hammered i just dont get it.

We should have 6 or 7 in, and that wouldnt include one of the 2 who actually did get in.

predictably the Yorkshire team were easily beaten in the first game - unless theres many changes to the squad for the 2nd game i cant see much change in the result

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Mon May 01, 2023 9:25 am  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

The Yorkshire squad is mind boggling, unless the aim is to get hammered i just dont get it.

We should have 6 or 7 in, and that wouldn't include one of the 2 who actually did get in.

You called that one Matt.
Why does it very often appear that squad selections at junior level are politically picked?
Surely it's in the best interests of the sport that the best players are picked and regardless of which club they play for?
When are the Australian Schoolboys next touring over here?
This is another consideration for choosing the very best players for the county games and then also for England International selection based on those games.
2018 was the last time that England played against the Aussies when we won the 2 match test series.

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Sat Aug 05, 2023 4:54 pm  

Bit of positivity,

Im delighted with the Academy intake just announced, one of, if not the best intake in recent memory.

Some real top quality in amongst the 15 players.

I had wondered how many we would sign from this class, i hoped it would be into the teens, but was worried we might lose one or two to big offers elsewhere, or that we would deem 14/15 as too many for one intake.

Really Happy we have signed so many, especially that we have kept all the 'stand outs'

Re: 2023 l Academy, Scholarship & Reserves News : Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:03 pm  

mattsrhinos1978 wrote:

Bit of positivity,

Im delighted with the Academy intake just announced, one of, if not the best intake in recent memory.

Some real top quality in amongst the 15 players.

I had wondered how many we would sign from this class, i hoped it would be into the teens, but was worried we might lose one or two to big offers elsewhere, or that we would deem 14/15 as too many for one intake.

Really Happy we have signed so many, especially that we have kept all the 'stand outs'

Hopefully it will go a long way towards quieting zoom zooms negativity and personal attacks at the scholarship head coach... said this for years and never been more apt apt after this announcement matt where the club is failing in its junior development and the reason so many fall by the wayside within our academy and not kick on is because the lad butteril is not the academy head coach...im told the lad was made part time this last year? Madness by the club madness...anyway pressures on now for the academy to produce some first team players...they have the quality moving up now so no excuses.