This is what worries me, the way the academy plays compared to the other sides. You can see at Leeds the patterns are drilled in to the players from a very young age and that continues through-out their progression. I don't see enough of the academy games to state facts but i've seen a handful of bulls vs rhinos u20's games in the past few years and the rhinos have battered us every time. The one last year at stanningley was a cricket score and whilst the leeds team had a few players that had played first grade , smith, pitts, mcshane, so did the bulls side in addy, o'brian, bateman and burgess.
I think the whole academy at the bulls needs a over-haul once the clubs situation is sorted, it's not a funds based thing that's required, it's the general skill level and all teams holding the same patterns etc.
There seems to be a major lack of winning mentality in our academy system.

Is Rob Hawthorne out injured ?
I haven't seen his name for a few weeks.

Yes, ankle ligament damage, hopefully back in a couple of weeks.

Our U20s are shot for the reasons above, many of them are in the 1st team and others are on loan or just not good enough or not developed enough yet.

The U18s look promising so hopefully a few will graduate to the U20s and onwards.

These U20's looked promising at U18's anyway age groups are changing again next season U19's and U23's.

Out of interest did Chisholm score against your lot in the U20`s?
Thought he might have played in the first team on Monday against London but for some unknown reason we have kept the same 19 as Friday.