Very excited for this. About time we joined in with the women's game with our own team. Wonder what it'll mean for the community game mind & whether they'll be used as feeders into our squad.

Really good move - hopefully they will get to play before some of the Rhinos games

Finally, I've been calling for it to happen for years. Good news.

Article says so. Home games in Weetwood with some as curtain raisers at Headingley.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Hearing that possibility of some women’s super league games being on sky sports is very impressive.

I can't wait for the Bradford vs Leeds derby!! Been a few years now since we've had one!

Wigan have announced they'll also be starting a women's team. Things building nicely for the women's game.

Widnes, Wakefield, St Helens, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford, Featherstone, Batley all have Women’s teams now, building massively.

Im all for this but how is it getting funded when GH's biggest excuse for not running a reserve grade is cost?

On my Sport Development degree we found that there is actually a hell of a lot of funding for women's sports. Chances are they are delving into different funding pots, plus there's an increased revenue with sponsors. Opens up a whole new market to sponsors if they sponsor a women's team rather than reserve. Plus the women's team's are either part time or don't get paid to play and won't cost much to run.

Reserve grade players would be taking a wage and most would be full time players. I very much doubt the Women’s team will be getting paid.

Not so much cost, more return on investment (maybe perceived)

No pay, but talking to a Bulls England player, she’s tempted because been promised full use of Rhinos facilities & conditioning team, which is far better than Bulls
She’s also not getting paid by England, and will lose financially from loss of wages

Leeds never really took the reserve grade seriously when we did have a team. The club's mentality seemed to be that it was better for its reserves to be playing in other clubs' first teams.

I remember when Bramley used to have serveral Rhinos players turning out, and we historically sent a lot of younger players to London Broncos in the past. With that history, it's not surprising that the clubs seems to prefer Dual Reg.

Team confirmed today:

Aimee Staveley - Bradford Bulls Ladies
Amy Johnson
Beth Lockwood - Lindley Ladies
Charlotte Booth - Bradford Bulls Ladies
Danika Priim - Bradford Bulls Ladies
Dannielle Anderson - Oulton Raidettes
Hanna Butcher - Thornhill Ladies
Hayley Fielding - Huddersfield Ladies
Larissa Deaves - Stanningley Ladies
Leah Birkin - Harrogate Ladies RU
Lois Forsell - Bradford Bulls Ladies
Manina Spurr - Featherstone Rovers Ladies
Megan Price - Huddersfield Ladies
Reagan Walker - Oulton Raidettes
Rhiannon Marshall - Bradford Bulls Ladies
Shannon Lacey - Stanningley Ladies
Sophie Robinson - Stanningley Ladies
Suze Hill
Tasha Gaines - Stanningley Ladies
Vanessa Harriman - Oulton Raidettes