There is just NO pleasing some folk...

Got to ask you the question? If we had been promoted this season to SL what would have happened to the reserves?

Had we been promoted we would still have a reserve team.

To get promoted you need a Superleague standard team as this season just gone has shown.

Getting promoted brings a much bigger income from prize money Sky money and better attendances.

I realise that your a Wigan lad and your son played in the Academy, but you need to cease winding folk up on here. To build a real conveyor you need to compete for the best kids both financially and with a proven pathway, neither can be done at Championship level and hence you simply turn a side out and tick a box.
There will be loads of kids with better potential than we can attract shown the door by SL clubs every year, as it stands we can only attract the kids SL overlooks and that isnt going to feed you.
Lets focus on the youngsters at East/Miners/Parkside etc and get the club into a position we can offer a decent opportunity for the better players who now are snapped up by the established SL clubs in the area, and that means SL.
20 years of sky funding has only created a few decent SL academy's, we have no chance without being in SL

Who has an Academy in Championship/SL..Where do the players from a SL academy end up if they don't make the grade? Where do those academy players come from originally?

I think the issue many have is not necessarily the cutting of the reserves, as long as it's a temporary measure, it's spending the savings on a huge gamble like Chase.

But w!g@n, Leeds & Saints all have access to a quality academy competition, we don't. They all receive large sums of money from the RFL, Sky, Sponsors and fans so they can buy up any young player who even shows the slightest hint of talent, we don't. Obviously they are the clubs you want to emulate and what you want to be doing but to suggest that where we are at the moment we can do anything comparable to their academy setups is daft.

As far as I am aware, Leigh are not permitted to run an Academy or Scholarship program and have not been for some time now.

Exactly.If clubs have the option to opt in/out when they please,how can there be structure.

So you congratulate them for winning a weak league two seasons on trot , then pull out cos it's gonna be stoner c,mon

I'm not doubting what has been achieved,I'm doubting the structure around it.You could end up with only 4 reserve teams next season,what benefit is that to anyone.

Whatever your club enters and wins the team should be congratulated on, then evaluate its benefits if in doubt