8 of our under 16s have been named in the England youth performance squad for this season, some real good talent yet again. Sometimes cant get my head round some national age group selections but with regards to Leeds i think theyv got it spot on this time.

Forwards-

Tom Nicholson-Wattern
Ajahni Wallace
Luca Atkinson
Joe Gibbons

Backs-

Oliver Field
Sam Little
Andrew Stewart
Coby Nichol

From this group i really like the look of..

Stewart (hunslet warriors) big fast with good feet
Wallace (siddal) won our 15s player of the year last season
Nicholson-Wattern (stanningley) a big prop or 13 with good hands
Field (wetherby bulldogs) a tall, very classy stand off
Little (wetherby bulldogs) a fullback with exceptional footwork

All 8 of the lads selected played a little bit of scholorship last season as u15s

Does anyone know about Robson McGowan, he played for Rhinos as a 15yo last year from Siddal but isn't named in the under 16's Scholarship this year ?
Just wondering if he has signed elsewhere.

I noticed he was missing from the profiles on the club page,theres also jonah parsons from batley boys who was with us last season as a 15 but isnt on ths clubs page, any info anyone?

Also i noticed a new 15 for this season called will gatus, does anyone know if it is same will gatus that has had youtube videos touting him as a future england union international since he was 11? From wakefield or close to, i beleive

Wills from Doncaster and played for shaw cross he’s now at Siddal, Mcgowan left Leeds, not sure on parsons

Cheers. Did will also play for sandal ru?

Yeah and quegs school, Parsons still with scholarship so not sure why he’s off the website

Spot on. Cheers

U16's beat wigan last night. Did anyone watch the game? got any info on try scorers, who performed well etc?

Highlights are up on the Rhinos YT channel now, try scorers were:

Coby Nichol.
Sam Little, with a cracker, another quality fullback coming through.
Morgan Gannon
Levi Edwards

Gannon and Edwards are both very talented u15's backrowers from Siddal, Edwards has moved there from Batley Boys this season, he's an exceptional prospect imo.

Yeah I went to watch. The team played very well 1st half and scored some nice tries especially a beauty from the full back. Thought the 6 looked classy in the 1st half but the 2nd half was very scrappy.

A sub called Levi Edwards did well off the bench 1st half.

Game was marred by a long injury to Wigan full back who was down for a very long time and had to be taken off on a stretcher.

Cheers marty. Hope ths wigan lads ok.

The 6 was Oliver Field, son of our ex prop Jamie.

Yeah metioned Levi Edwards above, only an u15, Brilliant prospect imo

The guy known as GRM (grassroots media) posted a video of Siddal u15 earlier this week and Levi Edwards was unstoppable, it seems he has speed strength & skill. Exciting prospect.

Theres a few full games on YT of him playing for batley boys u14s last season, he's another level, even against lads signed up to super league scholarships. The siddal u15s this season are loaded, best team in the country, we'v got 7 of them in our scholorship, Harvey Oldroyd, a , is another thats a wonderful talent.

Edwards does look very good, strong all-round game already. It's fantastic seeing all this talent at Leeds. And, in no small part at all thanks to the great development work Siddal and some others have been doing.

Siddal have done a lot of superteam building which isn’t supposed to be allowed. Edwards has been poached from Batley Boys and joins a team which is already head & shoulders better than anyone else.
It’s not good for the wider development of talent in the age group