This has got to be the most stupid, insulting idea i have ever heard of in RL!
I am not interested in watching some one elses youth team. I want to see my team playing sides of equal stature and quality. Our crowds at Doncaster may be small athe the moment but we are building a sustainable club and are not in debt, unlike many SL clubs. Mind your own business and get your own house in order is my message to the busy bodies who came up with this!

Yes thanks. As regards the U20s safety, have you seen the size of the forwards who play for Workington!

So you're happy to play teams that aren't competitive or equal then. So what's the difference between that and playing U20's?

They are equal as they are open age. Gateshead have done well in the past and the Skolars are progressing all the time. I know you're just using them as an example but not everyone can be top of the league.

I'd agree, I can understand why fans wouldn't be keen on watching their team play an U20's side, but that's not what the poster said. He said he wanted to watch his team play sides of equal stature and quality. Well Gateshead & London Skolars are not of equal stature or quality to the top sides in the league or even to the "middle" sides in the league.

Also, a Doncaster fan taking the mick out of other teams finances is just bizarre.

Regardless of how competative Gateshead are they are club in their own right doing their best and in time will become succesful. Why can't you just leave them alone? I am not interested in this idea, it is only of benefit to SL clubs in helping develop their youth teams.

Ok, i meant they are equal as in age, build etc.

Point taken on finances regarding the old Donny club, but under the new regime we have cut our cloth to suit. Surely this is a course of action which all clubs should take?

That's precisely the reason I suggested that any feeder clubs would be likely to be new clubs set up by (or with the help of) a SL club. The only existing clubs that I could see being interested in becoming feeder clubs are any clubs that under the proposed restructuring (the RFL "4 seasons" one) would struggle to find a league to play in, or would be facing a drop of a few levels in the pyramid. Especially if entering such an agreement would allow them to meet requirements for CC1 (for example if the SL club helped to fund ground improvements). I wouldn't see any merit in forcing the existing CC and CC1 clubs to become feeder clubs against their will or that of their fanbases.

Why can't I leave them alone? Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!

Gateshead managed 1 win in the league last season, hardly competitive or equal quality. Which is what you said you wanted. Yet you are happy to play Gateshead. I would imagine there are at least 2 or 3 SL U20's sides who would be more competitive and certainly more stable than Gateshead. So is it equal quality & stature you want after all?

You D!ck

I suggest that SL clubs sort out their own problems before looking at ours.

I'd suggest, the top Under 20s sides at least, are a better stature and have far more quality than most Championship 1 sides. Like I said I saw Wigan Under 20s turn over Barrow quite convincingly in the pre season just gone and almost beat Leigh's 1st team last year, whilst St Helens Under 20s came close to beating York this year. That's why I made the proposal. Granted those are one offs but all those three sides are playing a level above Championship 1.

Then they will be ok playing their league. CC1 teams have no need to play against your U20s.

You do realise this is just someone's suggestion on a message board don't you? Or has your RFL conspiracy theorist mind gone into overdrive already?
You do realise that some of SL's problems are also problems in the Championship? And that if the Championship's problems were sorted then SL & rugby league in general might benefit?

No of course not. Obviously the Super League clubs have decided already and thought they'd announce it on RLFANS.