Rumour is Salford have scrapped their academy.

Surely now is the best time possible for Leigh to set one up and encroach on their catchment area as well as Wigans?

If Salford were downgraded to category 2 then they only have themselves to blame.

Not sure how it affects Leigh if you're just beginning. Do you have to start at Category 2?

Easy to preach from your former lofty heights when your current batch were signed up 8/9 years ago , this might change given your current status

The Wigans/Leeds/Saints of this world take any and all youngsters displaying any potential knowing full well 95% will get nowhere near a first team shirt , other clubs then have to take whatever is left and try to produce players , hardly surprising not many manage it

Suppose it depends upon what you regard as beginning.So now we are in SL we should have an academy or shouldn't be in SL is the one going around,but who feeds the academies?

Personally I dont see the RFL academy approach helping Leigh or assisting the game in our area.We need to take it a step further and not be put under the restrictions of the RFL.If we are to have an academy I'd rather it be independant/ in-house,and the RFL can keep their funding.

So you would like Degsy to 100% fund a LCRLFC Academy & pass/refuse the £100k from The RFL atomic ?

Who would we/the academy team play if it were entirely in house/independent ?

Sorry pal, I just don't get your reasoning on this.

I believe its 5k per player Ste..So if we have year 10 U16's 20 of and year 11 U16's 20 of.That equates to £200k.Thats before we start on the U19's.Gameplay is only part of the curriculum,its not reserve or A team scenario. Six games max for U16's,Eight for U19's..