On what planet do you live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't you think that WMDC would have funded new stadiums if they had the finance. Eric the Hippo Pickles/ Call Me Dave/ The tory Nasty party have screwed WMDC and other northern councils with cuts, cuts, cuts and a Richard Cranium like you resurrects the old chestnut of Calder.

Have you any concept of the history, rivalry, passion and commitment of the supporters of the Five Towns RL clubs.

IF YOU HAVE ANY SENSE YOU WILL SEE THAT A CALDER ................ IN WHAT EVER GUISE WILL NEVER SURVIVE.

Don't want to start the old story again but from my perception it seems like you 'champion' worthwhile causes if so, and with a Gallic theme, instead of pushing the cause of Toulouse, Avignon and perhaps in 2020 Aix-En- Provence you pursue the reimbursement of funds sequestrated from the financially secure French RL by the French RU in conjunction with the Vichy government in the 1940's then perhaps we would have successful, secure, viable and plausible French rugby league




p.s Merry Xmas

Wow, a whole field of strawmen in there.

Junior coaches at Scholarship level can teach everything under the sun. They could literally be the only RL coaching, and the only contact with RL a kid has up until that point. It doesn't create pro's.

The fact is that players who are picked up at 16/17/18 into academies and junior academies are picked up because of their talent, not because their coaching at scholarship level in Wakefield is better than elsewhere, and frankly its pretty pathetic to claim those kids, the vast majority of whom won't go on to even make a single SL appearance, as evidence that youth development at your club is working. Because all I hear is the excuse although Wakefields youth development is brilliant, there just aren't the results

and for all your attempts to play on emotion and pretend im bad mouthing volunteers, it wont work. Its also pretty apparent that you are devaluing not only the players input, but his amateur coaches input, his academy coaches input, and the actual commitment it takes to blood a young player in to the first team at pro level by vastly overstating the effect of scholarship coaching at certain clubs.

I noticed you have still failed to answer my question as well, ill ask it again, how many of the Wakefield 2009 Academy GF squad have made it to an SL career?

No individual part creates a pro, including when they get into an academy. Together they do. To dismiss everything before it is pretty ignorant of athlete development.


And where does this talent come from? It's not just genetically inherited. It's an important piece of the puzzle. A very important piece. In fact, it's a very important piece that is ignored way too much in this country.


Or he's saying that there is huge importance to every piece of the puzzle?

Absolutely correct on all counts.

As we have gone WAY off the original topic that will do now thanks.