Are there any players in the Reserves who look worth a try in the first team? I'm not suggesting wholesale as they seem to be just a pumped up academy team, but are any even close?

Not yet. Our reserves is very young. Its pretty much a young U18s team. Weve loaned Levi Edwards out who has potential.

Max Simpson is the best one i think but hes 17.

Joe Hird possibly but he’s still very young as you say

18s 10 all HT at Wire

Leeds 30 Wire 16. FT.

Enjoyable game. Good performance.

Good result that, who were our top performers?

Just a good team effort. 1st time this yr ive seen a a Leeds team want to defend mistakes.

It was a physical game, Leeds defended their line much better than Wire. Our kicking game was excellent.

Simpson and Edgell was missing which made it an even more impressive win tho Alfie was named on bench he wasnt so we only had 16.

Really pleased with this group its got genuine quality in the backs when all fully fit.

All under the watchful eye of Paul Anderson.

Cheers marty.

Have you heard anything about when Jonah Parsons will be back fit and available?

Just watching from afar this year it clear that someones been sat on their hands for the past few years at the bottom end...16 players?...a lot of them not getting paid? a lot of unrecognisable names that have clearly just come in and a lot of good players plying their trades at other clubs? I now get why Bastians been brought in...seems he has inherited a right old mess to clean up over these next couple of Years!!

No mate. Hes been at most of the reserve games watching. Luca Atkinson and Tom Nicholson-Watton havent played yer either. They was there watching again yesterday. Must both be injured.

Certainly nobody has been sat on their hands in our junior dept. Their budgets have been totally slashed from above and to fill teams isnt easy especially reserve team.

Gary has a lot to answer for.

Cheers pal. I quite like the potential pack at reserves level

8. Hird
9. Parsons
10. Nicholson Watton
11. Gibbons
12. Field
13. Atkinson

Theres no Gannons or Edwards potential among them, but really enjoyed watching them coming through Scholorship. Maybe just a soft spot, but glad we kept hold of them a bit longer. They could all do with some physical development though, Watten looked bigger at 16 than when i last seen him.

Just watched the U18 victory over Warrington on youtube. Jack Sinfield stood out for me. Created a couple of tries from short kicks and scored a try with a couple of dummies. Perhaps lacks a yard of pace to be a running threat if he gets through the line but looks to have everything else. Just need to make sure we get his development right and don't rush him. I note JJB mentioned him in his Castleford post match conference when he was discussing the performance of our half backs. I think it's far too early to be mentioning him as the answer to that problem at the moment. Hopefully will be in the next few years. Looking forward to seeing him in action against HKR in the pre match on Friday. In fact might leave straight after that so as not to spoil the night!

Taylor-Rae absolutely superb tonight, how on earth we missed out on an east Leeds lad I’ll never know.

Do like the look of Mcewan-Peters though.

Warrington too big and powerful, but we were poor, one of the worst scholarship performances under Butterills tenure for 60 mins imo, last 20 was ok. Defence was awful at times, thought it would be tough tonight, but dissapointed none the less.

Mcewan peters, Butterfield and Cassell impressed me. A few u15's showed some nice touches.