Watched the 16s tonight against saints, what a great performance by the young rhinos to dominate and put 50 on a saints side that's done well this year . The teams abilty to ‘play what they see’ is great to watch and testomony to the players and their head coach . Another quality crop of players ready to move up to the academy. Exciting times !!!!!

Just watched the highlights. That Joe Burton in centres looks a class above.

3 try's last night for Cas in their final match. Will be highly sought after I would think when the contract window opens.

Just guesswork but the lads who have cought my eye and the positions theyv mostly played for the 16s are:

Iwen stephens - fullback
Liam tindall - wing
Joe burton -
Jack mallison - scrumhalf
Harry anderson - standoff
Jacob gannon - backrow
Lewis delaney - backrow
Oli burton - hooker
Rian rowley - prop
Olly adamson - prop

If all of these are signed id be happy. Standouts for me are j burton, tindall, delaney and anderson.

Does Nathan Carter have a manager ? I know an NRL talent scout who recently watched some footage of him and is keen to have a chat with him.

Just seen this . Thats big numbers on the 12-13 last year !! Seems we have a good system in place !

Under 16s is notoriously unpredictable but Leeds always sign up the best whilst Cas and Wakefield snare the best of the rest.

However there is a huge dollop of luck involved and quite often the players from the top team fail to step up whilst a lesser teams ends up producing a good batch of SL players - it’s so hard to know.

The advantage Leeds have is sheer numbers and occasionally and certainly far more often than most clubs you get a golden crop.

In my time at Wakefield I’ve only seen us do it once and that was basically a team of rejects. I think it was 2000ish and included amongst others Ellis, Westwood and Brough over a few seasons. You do it far more often than that which IMO is a good thing for both Leeds and the game because as we know you can’t keep them all

Gannon has signed for Warrington.

Has he chose warrington over us or were we not offering him a deal?

£££ over Leeds and Leeds wont pay it.

Thought as much, they love throwing money at other clubs scholorship players. Would of liked to keep him, he's a good player , but dont think he's one thats really special for his age, delaneys a better prospect imo. Gold luck to him though, hope he does well for them.

Always is with them & imo they've ruined Morgan Smith already.