Dave Scott was looking in great form before he came off injured.

Think before you post.

Are you living in a dream world. If we have members of the squad who are at College and couldn't get 19 days off for a paid trip to travel to Australia for 19 days then I'd question their commitment to being a proffesional RL player.

Well done to KR for doing this. A lot of people (myself included) have criticised them in particular for signing so many cr*p obverseas players - this tour shows a real commitment to junior development.

What he said

....and even better, IIRC, they collected money for entry to Mason first training session last year as a way of helping to fund this....every cloud and all that

Sorry, dont agree with that. Since super league the quality of our overseas players has been very good, and without them we would,nt be were we are now. Our youth policy was non existant at the time due to the lure of super league from our noisy neighbours, and we needed quality to get us on our way. would hardly call Vella,dobson,green,newton,webster,galea,clinton cr*p.

What would you call Bauer, Crossman, Dyer, Gannon & Lennon?

It's easy to be selective when making a point. Our youth policy was appalling until the last 3 years.

Tangata toa, michael smith...Dave "the carthorse"hoskins, James goulding, bob smithies,greg austin the list is endless and they all fall into a select category, and i agree with your selection but our good still outweighs the bad.

I bet the youngsters are having the time of their lives on this trip. By all accounts they have access to great training facilities and are getting top coaching whilst they are out there. Lets hope the experience improves all of their games.
A lot of people at Rovers put a massive amount of work into making this happen. Lets hope the rewards are there for all to see over the coming months and years.
I'm sure Rovers arnt the first to do this though. Havnt Saints embarked on a tour like this before? We are certainly following a great example if they have.

What matters now is that our youth is starting to come through.

Welham
Taylor
Cox

Just to name 3 that I hope will be appearing in a Rovers shirt for years to come.

Yeah Saints have done it two or three times, most recently a few months ago. If I remember rightly the likes of Jonny Lomax and Tommy Makinson were on the first tour.

Your rovers fans should keep an eye out for a young player called Moran who is now down at rovers academy. He is only 15 and plays for Hull Wyke in the Yorkshire U16's Combination League. Plays against older kids week in week out and he is on fire and is looking the part. He is an FC fan but chose to go to KR for his further development.