Seeing as the club fought so hard to retain its academy how can it be a requirement? Does academy receive some kind of funding if a player goes on to play super league?Is not much of the cost offset by compensation,Storton/Milne's 100k,Wilson 100k+, Butterworth 35k,Scurr to come? You also get a year or two 1st team seasons out of the good young players for absolute peanuts.

I get the argument about us missing out on signing proven players and us producing players for other clubs but you have to balance that against the players we keep and the money their transfers bring in. I also believe it's better for the game for clubs to run academies. The more opportunities for players the better. Although that's all very well provided you can afford it.

Keep. If we ditch it then no more good youngsters even though we have struggled to keep them over the last decade or so. Spend all our money on over price primadonnas and don't go up then we have lost everything.
Going up would be lovely - as long as we can compete but we would then need our young players coming through. For me it is nice to bring on our own lads and shouldn't be a case of one or the other.

Good for the game. Good for the young players of the area and the community as a whole. Good for Hull KR.

But good for Bradford Bulls? The supporters. I don't see it. Clubs with smaller fanbases are spending more than us (not necessarily owing to the academy). I think the next 4/5 weeks are pivotal in many ways. Big decisions will need to be made about the coaching set up and the direction of the direction of the club, possibly including the academy, as what's going on at Odsal right now doesn't add up.

I still stay keep it.

Remember the show ponies that refused to dig in and play with pride in the shirt? Those that put us back into financial trouble and landed us with Chalmers?

Far better to be rolling over to get our tummies tickled on the cheap if you ask me.

Don't forget you'll lose interest from grass roots if the local 'professional' club has no interest.

Hudds and Leeds will fill the void at amateur level in Bradford and who will those parents go watch? Won't be anyone in Red, Amber and Black.

What do you mean doesn’t add up?

I suppose playing in a 25k stadium and paying 200k for an academy while unable to beat Sheffield on our own pitch, with a 67 year old coach who doesn't do the coaching. Players who seem to have issues with diet. It's odd.

What does that mean?

Genuine question

A poster on here goes and watches training and Kear isn't there apparently.

Apparently he was in a meeting with Jonathan Ford that day!