Back tracking and blaming your silly comments on someone else - quality mate real quality.

Some would benefit, some wouldn’t. Each player is different so there’s no perfect setup. A reserve league would have positive and negative outcomes for different young players.....Dual Reg has positive and negative outcomes for different young players.

That’s why it shouldn’t be mandatory because both can work. The ones who don’t want to run a reserves shouldn’t be forced to because other teams think it’s better for them. The only issue for reserves is number of teams yet we keep hearing of enough clubs (7/8/9/10) who want to do it so they should get it sorted between themselves instead of blaming the RFL and others for their failure.

Let’s not forget these club owners are the same ones claiming they can get better tv and sponsorship deals yet they can’t sit down, get a show of hands, see that enough teams want to do it and organise a fixture list.....instead they end up begging the RFL (the same people they boasted they could do better than) to sort it for then by forcing others to do what they want.

How many reserve games did you play and how many academy lads regularly featured in your 17 last year?

I remember in 2016 when Warrington, Hull and Wigan were picking up the silverware and some credited it to them running reserves......yet in 2017 it was Leeds and Cas at the top with Wire and Wigan struggling so League placings aren’t really backed up by reserves or not.

Were have i backtracked, and once again you resort to trying to ridicule when you cannot come back with anything usefull.

Here is your chance , Out of interest what are your suggestions for the academy/ reserves future formats.

Personally i would like the under 16 scrapped and BARLA run district sides up to under 16’s under RFl guidance and elite training program, similar to the college system in NFL. Academy teams should then drop down to under 18’s and then an under 21’s reserve A team with up to 5 over age players. I think thats a middle ground that suits best gives academy players an extra stepping stone for a year or 2 and keeps the late developers a bit more time to mature, keep dual reg as some players development will suit that better.

What I used to like about the reserves or A team has we used to call it when you got a new player from abroad ie Australia or New Zealand or other places the put them in a game or two till they was ready to lean the new teams ways plus any player back from injuries turned out to get fit

What I used to like about the reserves or A team has we used to call it when you got a new player from abroad ie Australia or New Zealand or other places the put them in a game or two till they was ready to lean the new teams ways plus any player back from injuries turned out to get fit

Im certainly no fan of wakefield but what has their stadium got to do with reserve teams. It’s a bit boring now that fans of other clubs counter argument to any discussion with wakefield fans is “so what, your stadium is rubbish”

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Quite easy to answer that one. This year we have had Corey Ashton at Sheffield, Brandon Douglas and Will Maher at Halifax, Mitch Clark at Fev, Kieran Gill at Oldham, Jy Hitchcox and Tuoyo Egodo and James Green and Bradford.
The club have made the decision that playing meaningful games in the Championship and League 1 is much more beneficial than the reserve format. It seems most SL clubs think the same.

Cas didn't use it to develop players though, they used it to get deadweight off their books.

Dual reg does nothing to rehab injured players, for example, and certainly does nothing at all for the receiving clubs who are over-reliant on loan players, thus not developing their own. Which club was it that couldn't put out a competitive team at the back end, as all the dual reg had been recalled?

It's a bit rude, shall we say, for SL clubs to see the leagues below as a mere feeder structure.

Deep down I don’t think you really believe that.