Warrington and Hull are said to have abandoned their reserve teams ahead of the new season.

With no organised reserve system in place, a handful of Super League clubs have operated with reserve teams off their own backs in recent seasons, playing glorified friendly games.


It leaves just Wigan, St Helens, Wakefield, Keighley, Leigh and Halifax in running second strings, to bridge the gap between the first team and under 19s set ups.

They will already know the restructuring/licensing for 2019. We will have to wait.

Saints have also scrapped the reserves.

i was under the impression that we were running a youth this year

just read on twitter
Bradford now running a reserve team this season... And the academy is up and running...play saints on wed..2pm ko

Good news,is the investment coming from Toronto by any chance?

I think it's a joint effort atomic. A bit like HKR and Saints.

We want to get rid of our reserves can’t even get 13 men to play it’s turning into a farce all this

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Reserves havent played a game yet ! Do you think the poster is getting mixed up with the academy ?

the lads are really struggling with injuries at the minute

If we can’t get 17 lads from leigh to play for the academy it’s a bad day in my opinion when I was playing we had kids willing to wear the jersey

All the lads are willing to wear the jersey , however the academy is linked with the college.

It is a cat 3 academy.So this is the first step into creating a stand alone academy.

No pleasing some folk,they moan when we don't have an academy,then moan when they get one going.

All I’m saying his that’s its diabolical that we can’t field a team to compete to many outsiders in the team this is my opinion some might not agree but as a past player I know how I felt to play yoy at to be on top of your game to get picked. This is what I’m getting at if we don’t do it proper then why bother playing with 11 lads every week will surely dishearten the lads that want to make a go off it we need to make sure of numbers before making fixtures. Who’s idea was it to organise a fixture knowing we was light of players surely common sense should prevail

These lads N the led academy still need paying.. there isn't enough money in rugby league for teams to sustain first teams never mind academy's. if I was 16 out of school I wouldn't be lining up to be paid pittance playing for a academy with no sure fire career in front of me I would be concentrating on getting a steady job and future. Until big investment comes into the sport as a whole we aren't going to run academy's/reserves. The owners haven't got bottomless pits of cash to throw at it

The Bulls have always run an academy and have continued to do so now we're in C1. We can afford it with the help of the Supporters Trust. Had we not had one we'd probably not have been able to get a team on the field last season. If clubs turn their back on academies the game is finished. Leigh have the resources and are making progress.