Who was man of the match?

Didn't see who was officially announced but imo either Trout Darly or Reece-Chapman.

Whats reece-chapmans natural position? He's played everywhere from wing to halfback over his academy career.

Reece Chapman-Smith can and has played in every position 1-7 while learning the game at Silcoates school, Sandal RUFC, and Oulton ARLFC.

Since joining the Rhinos he has suffered serious shoulder injuries which have prevented him progressing to the first team.

He has a real rugby brain on him which he shows with his passing and kicking game. Combined with his pace and strength he has got to be played in the middle at half back or centre.

Now that he is back from injury it would not be a surprise to me to seeing him play at 6 in the super 8's this season.

Sounds good, you must rate him very highly?

Watched him since he took up rugby as an 11 year old.

He is very talented with enormous potential if his shoulder injuries are behind him.

I don't want to jinx the kid but his shoulders showed up well on thursday night mate defensively & with strong hand offs carrying the ball.

I rate him highly, and always have done. Always voiced that on here since he was under 15’s. But also pointed out the shame about his injuries, but for that he would have had first team potential a fair while ago. He was a better fullback than Jack at youth.

And speaking of injuries, people are yet to see the best of Alex Sutcliffe who is equally excellent. If those injuries stop he should be straight to first team.

Hopefully reece can stay clear of injury for the rest of the year, am i right in thinking this is his last season of eligibility for the 19's? If so, its a massive season for him

Good to hear we have a good group of youngsters coming through. I'd be interested to hear if it's because we've managed to sign some top kids, or has there been a change in coaching strategy by the club. I know in the past that Gotcha has been critical in the approach to developing youngsters

Im not sure about the coaching strategy, but from my limited knowledge, the 16's have been very well coached for a number of years, the 19's not so much, morley as 19's coach last season was a bit of a disaster imo.

Player wise, i think we'v done a fantastic job of getting some of the best young players in the country into the club.

3 year ago our intake had walker and oledzki who are arguably the best teenage back and forward respectively in the british game, Cameron smith, who was regarded by most as the best player in the whole country at that age group and a bit of a superstar in the making, aswel as whiteley, A sutcliffe and chapman -smith, who are all highly rated by people on here who know more about the academy than i do.

2 year ago the intake included mcconnell, trout and newman, these 3 were the standouts of that years group for me and are all amongst the best there age group in the country, especially newman who's an electric young . Theres also tyler dupree whos a massive unit and seems to be developing into a quality impact prop, i think the club picked him up a bit later than the others, so credit to the coaches for his development.

This years intake could be the best of the lot and has 4 very special players in it imo, Holroyd (prop) martin (backrow) johnston (hooker) broadbent () are all brilliant talents, then theres spence, whos an england academy halfback, moorhouse and whitten who are already doing well at 19's level in there first season at that level.

Iv probably missed a few aswel.

Waite Pullan joined you from us last season. Is he still with you?