Quote: middleman "It is sad considering the tremendous effort put in by the U20's , however all SL clubs will have notified their respective U20's and there will similar stories throughout the league.
the difference will be the more well off SL clubs like Warrington & Wigan dual registering over 19's players with teams like Swinton & Leigh et al.
Warrington will loan up to 6 of their squad to Swinton and presumably have similar tie ups with other teams meaning they can effectively billet a complete 13 in the lower leagues.
Rather than even the odds and promote academy players to play for their hometown SL clubs , the gap between income in SL is manifesting itself more & more on the field .
there are teams that can spend to the full salary cap with International Signings & run a shadow team of dual registered players , and those that struggle to pay their 1st team.
At present we cannot even hang on to our 1st 13 never mind U20's and are uncertain about our financial future .
Man City's Roberto Mancini I heard quoted this morning " How true is that !
At times we've attempted to buy the Kit-car Ferrari team , with bolted on aerofoils & go faster stripes on a Fiat 500 team , end end up hawking off the best bits again & again when we run out of gas. and have to start again looking in the 'RL' bargain bin section in Autotrader .
Lets see if all this talk of new investment materializes , and if it does whether we are looking in the bangers section or the supercars ?'"
As far as I am aware Warringtons tie up with Swinton means it is only Swinton they can dual register players with.I also believe that we can register up to ten players, absolute madness as far as I am concerned a maximum of six with only four allowed to play would be about right.
In effect we can take any of Warringtons squad of players so if they had the likes of Morley returning from injury he could get match fitness with us along with any others.
Can't blame Swinton in getting that tie up since we can't operate an A team.
I do feel sorry for your youth team since they have had a half decent season and now face being broken up since your chances of getting a similar agreement with a Championship club with now have to be either in Yorkshire or Cumbria, Leigh are linked to Wigan I believe.
Slowly but surely the RL and SLE are killing the game with this kind of instruction.
