Hi all. I am new to this game but enjoy following the team with my area of interest being junior development! Seemed a good place to share some thoughts. The video seems to show some great "talent" however I would always take conversations with a pinch of salt when hearing statements of "he will make it" or "he will not make it". These young athletes are in reality a long way away from high performing professional rugby league players. Without going into too much detail, players mature at totally different rates. Some of these lads may have only started specialising in RL the past 18 months or so. My philosophy when training my athletes is to develop every single person as individuals rather than Talent ID at this age. This will result in much bigger yields. Too often I see organisations throw large amounts of players through a "programme" , squeeze them and see who "pops out" at the other end! Just my thoughts!

Well im sold. Stanningley for the next home game for me.

I think Cameron Smith was injured playing for England v France u/16's about a month ago.

I just the full match on youtube, the no.7 Jack Wray looks pretty handy too. Lot's of talent in that team.

Gotcha-Didn't get chance to go down Thursday so couldn't do a report.
Eclipse is right re-C.Smith did his ankle v France.
Also I can assure you that Wigan have plenty of potential amongst their u16's also maybe not as many but enough.
Sunderland actually played 13 when I saw them play the other week and was very good then he actually could be Abbos replacement (40/20)!
I agree wholeheartedly about the highlights not doing the team efforts justice I see the same with the u19's.
The future is certainly in capable hands should we maintain the quality structures we have in place and the lads live up to their undoubted potential.

Was going to mention about Jack Wray. There's going to be something of a battle for competition in the halves over the next 3-4 years, with some very good players all coming through within 2-3 years of each other.