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Academy Licensing, 2022-27
21ST MAY 2021
Eight clubs from the Betfred Super League, and two from the Betfred Championship, have been awarded Elite Academy Licences for 2022-27, having demonstrated that they achieve the elite standards required by the process.
The licensing process had been delayed since 2019, partly as a result of the disruption caused by Covid-19. Over recent months an expert panel convened by the RFL and Super League Europe had considered 15 applications.
Key decisions that were agreed by the clubs before the process began were for the licence term to be extended to six years, because of the long-term nature of player development, and for the importance of the Community Game to be factored into deliberations.
That led to an agreement that a maximum of 12 licences should be awarded – up to nine in “Core Affinity Areas”, up to two in “Emerging Affinity Areas”, and up to one in France.
The rationale for this was as follows
It's not really is it? I'd already read that when I posted my comment. I stand by it.
This bit particularly made me laugh:
“Many of the clubs have a great track record of consistently developing senior elite players for England and yet their commitment to iterate and develop their programmes in order to continue to optimally attract, retain and progress players really shone through."
So is the argument that Bradford don't continue to attract, retain and progress players? Combine London, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Newcastle's academies and they equal the number of players that came through our academy in the England elite train on squad.
We're consistently well represented at all age groups so that's complete garbage. We continue to produce world class players.
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