It's interesting to hear Cas fans slagging off Rovers youth development when our U15's, U18's and U20's have won more games and performed better this season. Ironic or are Cas fans worried about the impending franchise bids?

As people have said before, it's not how they perform in the level below, it's how many actually make the transition to first-team rugby at the top level.

Oh and FYI, our U15's won 4 out of their 5 games. Yours won 3 out of their 6. That makes ours better, no?

Our U16's won 5 out of their 6. Yours, 4 out of their 6. Again ours better?

As for our academy, if we beat Warrington, I think we finish top of our group. You've done well to get into the top in that.

Any number of our youngsters could have made that transition to the first team and perhaps we too would have missed out on the play-offs. As it is, the ones who made the transition did so quite successfully.

Hull now have Berrigan and Manu classed as federation trained, I trust all the Hull fans now think this is a brilliant rule and they agree with it

i don't agree and have stated in the past its a rule i don't like, if your aussie/nz quota they should stay a quota regardless if they have played here 1 season or 10!

besides i'm sure a certain fc poster has already given you the details of our possible overseas for next season, 6, the same as this

Quins RL are the only club that's boasted an all British 17 starting line up all season.

This makes me laugh. If Quins had a team full of Australians then you'd be criticising them for not having any English players. Now when they do actually have that, you're slagging them off anyway.

Seems Rovers can manage to scout, coach and develop players after all...rlhttps://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f

You do know of course that a certain poster will be unable to give us any credit for Liam Watts' development.

If we play better with the likes of Dobson, Newton and galea then who cares? We're not breaking any rules, I hardly think we're going to single handedly prevent the international game from progressing as a result of us having more overseas than others and if players such as mason, newton and dobson can grace this league then its all good for me.

There wont be just one though.
You see they seem to not understand that by Watts own admission on national TV when he was at Cas he wasn't focused properly.
He now has focus something ONLY HKR can be credited for.
These are the same folks that then seem to have no problems with the likes of Tom Briscoe being classed as home grown at FC.