London Broncos have more local born players in their squad then the whole of British RL, if you look at the Sydney suburbs, I reckon they have more local boys in World R.L. Add to that the dozens of London based players that are plying their trade in other leagues then we really need to invest RL in London.
We all crow about Cumbria, but the facts state there are more Londoners playing in the pro leagues then Marras.

We really need to find a way to get fans in to watch them. That is the only reason they're not in S.L, Leigh would give £££££ for a academy like Broncos.

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mate - I think there was a stat that said only one in 200 kids make it and most of those that don't tend not to go back to their Amateur clubs. Academies develop professionals but do great damage to the amateur game.

So the trick is find the quality kids and run an academy league with quality teams.

Not quantity, that destroys the amateurs...... Late developers like Jamie Peacock can still get picked up later

Good luck with that when teams are being suppressed from doing their own academy there's less player based

The player base comes from schools RL and junior RL at amateur clubs??

Sinfield came through this process over many years in both Oldham schools RL and Junior amateur club RL??????

Academies just then cherry pick the best when they get to around 16 ??????

Invest in education first.
English seems to be a forgotten language !