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| Cas obviously have a decent enough crop at this level. They turned Wigan over a couple of weeks ago too. Very obviously Leeds are leading with a young side in the academy, and preferring reserves for the second years.
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| Quote: excruciatingterror "Cas obviously have a decent enough crop at this level. They turned Wigan over a couple of weeks ago too. Very obviously Leeds are leading with a young side in the academy, and preferring reserves for the second years.'"
I guess the concept is that this challenges higher quality youngsters more, I can get that on one level.
On the other hand though it makes it more likely the teams will lose games, which I’m not sure is ideal. It also could increase risk of injury playing lads older and stronger (or men with reserves). It also accelerates the gifted players through where maybe sometimes it would be better for them to hold back and learn and train for longer before “making it”.
Dunno, pros and cons of any approach.
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| Quote: excruciatingterror "Cas obviously have a decent enough crop at this level. They turned Wigan over a couple of weeks ago too. Very obviously Leeds are leading with a young side in the academy, and preferring reserves for the second years.'"
Second part is incorrect, there are no second years playing for the reserves and missing Academy, they arnt good enough, the best 2 second years are McCormack and Corbett and they play for both
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| The doom and gloom continues. We only beat Cas by 24 points last night!!
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| That was Scholarship, which always recieves the praise it deserves
You should probably read the thread before posting
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| Extremely poor, error filled, performance from the reserves today in defeat to Warrington
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| Edgell and Littlewood played pretty well, as did Aliyu, Warren, Robinson, Smart, Campbell. Lumb had some errors but once he strengthens up he is tall and fast and evasive.
Boys against men at times but just like first grade, slack errors and penalties killed us.
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| Error after Error, dumb play after dumb play and penalty after penalty, very much like the first team, that is the story of our reserves and Academys season to date during their combined 1 win with 4 defeats.
But ’we'l learn from that' and 'we'l take plenty of positives away'
Problem is, they seem to take too many positives and not enough learning.
Another coach named Smith who should be firmly on the hot seat
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| Rohan smith, grix, walker and T Smith just inspire zero confidence as a coaching team it just all looks amateur.
Clubs usually have structures plays and calls that are consistent throughout the age groups and various teams, I shudder to imagine what that looks like for Leeds.
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| I thought Jack Sinfield looked more robust than last season, he has worked on his physicality.
Generally Wira looked physically more mature - but again when you’re playing opposition like that, you have to out-skill them and we failed to.
The ref allowed Warrington to lie on at the ruck to a ridiculous level too, it was embarrassing.
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| How are the games looking under the new rules?
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| Quote: Jack Burton "How are the games looking under the new rules?'"
I couldn’t see much evidence they’ve been applied mate. Night and day from last year, common sense may just have prevailed.
I was more bothered about the ref allowing Wire to lay on literally 5 seconds per ruck at times.
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| Quote: KaeruJim "I couldn’t see much evidence they’ve been applied mate. Night and day from last year, common sense may just have prevailed.
I was more bothered about the ref allowing Wire to lay on literally 5 seconds per ruck at times.'"
I heard a quote from someone in the media that so far in SL the number of tackles making contact with the head has gone from around 12% to 3%, albeit a small sample size so far. So perhaps they're being lenient in the reserves because the adjustments made to the rules in SL is already having the desired effect on reducing contact with the head.
I agree on the play the ball. I'd like to see if the PTB speed has increased, because it still looks a mess and is policed inconsistently
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| It’s great that head contacts have been reduced, the interpretation has eased now and let’s hope we’re about where we need to be.
Bentley’s concussion issue was making a tackle though; this is not uncommon.
We have to make a hard job easier for refs and keep the rules as effective but simple as possible. Honestly I’d be blowing the pea out for some of the crappy spoiling tactics in the ruck. Sometimes I feel Leeds players could be better at finding their fronts but some of that is physical.
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| U18s well beaten by Wigan tonight. Presumably we'll hear we fielded a very young team and it will be invaluable for their development. May well be true. GH keeps repeating we currently have the best crop of youngsters for 20 years. I get to as many Academy and Scholarship games as I can and I'm struggling to see the same thing. I see us beaten regularly by the Wigan and Saints of this world which doesn't fill me with any confidence we'll be closing the gap any time soon. Would be very happy to be proved wrong though.
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