to have 50% of the first team squad come through the Academy is fantastic and shows that the club have an excellent youth system in place

We kind of discussed this at last week's Trust/SqB board meeting which John Bastian attended. We have plans for this year to increase awareness of the kind of things SqB and the club overall does and try to get a bit more publicity by involving the players, including ones in the senior squad who have already progressed through the Academy.

At the media On Monday there was a group photograph taken of the Squadbuilder supported players I will post it here when I receive a copy.

Can't say the same for briers

How dare you speak about the current Lance Todd Trophy winner like that!!

what's with all of these newly grown beards

it's winter and a strong chin can get cold

fair enough, but if i was mrs solomona (god forbid) i'd ask why the hell he's grown that on his face!

fair enough.

I like it though. makes him look more manly

and

@ArcticGorilla is that really your prediction for next year or are you trolling?

Was kind of hoping that there might be a tiny chance that this thread might of been steared into a good honest discussion about rugby and our club's apparent improvement in the field of youth development and the role Squadbuilder might have played in that.

Unsuprisingly it has descended into knob measuring with Wigan and an extension of Facebook involving the texting generation.

With the intent of luring some old-time lurkers out of the shadows can people confirm if they are members of Squadbuilder or the Supporters' Trust.

If members of Squadbuilder do you feel that your "investment" is now paying off or would you rather funds distributed in an alternative manner?

If not a member do you know what Squadbuilder is about and do you think it still relevant in the era of modern stadium, profits and silverware for the club?

Um back in my box

Best "squad" I have ever seen us have IMO.

Saw Joey Jones today must be doing some training with the team.

I'm a member of squadbuilder but can't always attend the meetings because of other commitments. I think it is a great way of supporting the young players.

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I remember from a SqB meeting last year that the emphasis was being turned from funding individual players to more of a team function.

Looking at the squad, it's pretty hard to see anything other than youth development policy and Sqb involvement as a raging success. Any news on forthcoming meeting schedules, Roy/SEB? Been a while.

To the younger contingent who clog up this forum nowadays - have you heard of SquadBuilder? Spend a wee bit of your time checking out what it is about.