Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:18 pm  

How misguided of the Bulls to be developing youngsters at a time when we should be "cutting our cloth".

With all the money at Super League clubs' disposal they should be forced to spend a set percentage of income on youth development or be thrown out of the league, end of.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Thu Oct 20, 2016 7:22 pm  

Well quite. Wasn't the salary cap always meant to largely be about stabilising clubs to ensure the long term health of the game? That went well...

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Fri Oct 21, 2016 2:31 pm  

Bullseye wrote:

Who are Fax acting as A team for next year?

In the sense of dual reg, no one as of yet. In regards of youngsters from the area its now mainly Huddersfield and Salford since Bradford left the party.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:20 pm  

If you look at the number of players in our first team squad next season that came through our academy we'd be lost without ours.

So too England as a quarter of the current 4 nations squad came through our youth set up - including the captain. A few of those came through during the recent financial meltdowns too.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Fri Oct 21, 2016 7:00 pm  

Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza wrote:

If you look at the number of players in our first team squad next season that came through our academy we'd be lost without ours.

So too England as a quarter of the current 4 nations squad came through our youth set up - including the captain. A few of those came through during the recent financial meltdowns too.

nfNo, only Leeds and Wigan do that.

Apart from Ferres, Whitehead, Bateman, Kopczak and the three Burgess brothers.....we should have cut our cloth. Maybe Addy and Atkins too. Maybe we should think again.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:34 am  

ridlerbull wrote:

Well quite. Wasn't the salary cap always meant to largely be about stabilising clubs to ensure the long term health of the game? That went well...

No, it was incorprated to keep fairness between clubs.

[Bulliac]

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:48 pm  

atomic wrote:

No, it was incorprated to keep fairness between clubs.

I think you'll find the original intention, as stated, was to prevent clubs going bust... and prevent Wigan winning everything, every year. It was a long time ago, of course, and there was also the odd bit of 'mission creep' along the way, IIRC]

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Mon Oct 24, 2016 8:48 pm  

Back on the subject of Salford's academy - it appears that Marwan Koukash has tonight announced a joint 'Super Academy' set up with Leigh.

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:25 pm  

Alan wrote:

Back on the subject of Salford's academy - it appears that Marwan Koukash has tonight announced a joint 'Super Academy' set up with Leigh.

And can't season ticket holders for Salford get into Leigh's games for 50% and vice versa?
Interesting idea...

Re: Salford Scrap Academy : Tue Oct 25, 2016 7:38 am  

debaser wrote:

And can't season ticket holders for Salford get into Leigh's games for 50% and vice versa?

I'd be quite happy with a set up like that for one of the local sides. I can watch pretty much any RL, so getting 50% off another team's games would probably encourage me to watch them sometimes when they weren't clashing. I'm surprised more teams don't do similar really, especially the likes of Salford who don't get many anyway.