Amazing how we go from a very poor show against cas to an irratic first half yesterday (yes there were some good periods but still irratic) then a great 2nd and now we've a 17 that's hard to get into!

It is a hard team to break into now as a young player because 6/7 lads have cemented spots overt the last year or two, and a couple more are on the verge. Some decent prospects like Muizz, Edwards and Broadbent not made the cut.

U 18's Academy started the season with an 84 - 0 win at Newcastle today

Do you guys have a decent centre you can lend us on dual reg?

You'd probably have Max Simpson if he hadn't have done his ACL

Our Scholarship are live on the clubs YT channel today at 1pm.

Really young team selected, all but 3 of todays squad are U15's

Matt’s several players looked good but hard to judge given the quality of opposition. Our 9 and 10 looked handy.

Good to see some more big, mobile props in the system.

Who stood out for you mate?

Pressley Cassell was excellent while he was on the field, but he always is to be fair. Thought William Wilkinson and Jacob Hardey were good in the forwards. Interesting to See Harvey Butterworth at 9 in the second half, he's usually a 6 or 13 for Stanningley, he looked good. Caleb Rhodes made a big impact off the bench, nearly scoring a full lengther from a kick return ( He scored a near identical one for Birstal Victoria last week) good, Mobile prop.

Opposition well outmatched though, as you say.

Is this the age group you reckon has some real standouts?

Would like to see the team against better opposition to get more of an idea of their quality.

Yeah the u16's has some really talented players, hardly any played yesterday though, was mostly u15's.

Really poor effort from the u18's last night, losing 30 - 34 to Huddersfield.

A just need to turn up to win attitude saw them losing by plenty midway into the second half, they switched on with 20 left and put a handful of unanswered trys on, but too little too late.

I was surprised by the team we put out. I know it's not all about winning at that level but give the debut's against the likes of Newcastle. McCormack at 6 has an impressive running game. Looks very promising. A night to forget for Sir Jack.