Atkins played instead of king.

Would be delighted if Baloo dropped some of our regulars, based on current form the youngsters would be 100 times better and would guarentee the effort required. People base too much on names and see Leeming on team sheet instead of Lunt or Connor instead of Grix and fear the worse cos it isnt a recognised name (incorrectly).

Names and reputations count for jack @. King didnt play tonight you are correct, I'll use another example Williams the teenager at Wigan played regular this season, scored a hattrick tonight playing stand off. Joe Burgess at Wigan could be classed as 1st team regular now.

I go to the YMCA to watch the youngsters, I recommended a lad I used to coach to the club, a 15 year old 6' 3" no-one followed it up. I saw him at Magic Weekend last year and he said he'd got offers from Wigan, Bradford, Cas & Wakey but the Giants hadn't been to see him. I asked him to not rush signing owt and I got in touch with a contact at the club, that Weekend they went to watch him and I got a call from Pete Riding to say how good he was. They offered him a scholarship. He now plays in u16's another we nearly lost till I bollocked the club and forced em to follow up my original reccomendation well before other clubs got involved.

Its half d and needs sorting we cant afford to buy big as you rightly say, we dont have the money, thats why its vital we bring our own thru.

Rather than sign stop gap players such as Ellis, I'd rather see Miller and the other youngsters get a proper chance!!!!

How is Jared Simpson coming on ?
I hear he is lightening fast but needs to bulk up a bit.

And those youngsters you have named at other clubs are better than what we currently have- that's the key. I will reiterate what I said. There are not ANY of our ex youngsters who we let go currently playingin superleague except Joseph (how long ago was he in our academy!) there are many players we wanted to sign whos heads were turned by more successful clubs with better facilities and more money. The calibre of coaching at amateur club rugby in Huddersfield is pretty poor newsome being the only club to bring through a decent number of players- if you are involved at club rugby level then you must recognise that.
And no -I wouldn't be concerned if I saw leemings name on the team sheet instead of Lunt- but I would be if I saw redfearns name.
If they are good enough then they are- many .......just aren't and putting them in the first team squad isn't going to change that.

Talking of facilities what is happening with Woodfield Park. It must be more than two years since Ken Davy bought it but it just seems to be lying derelict.

we also dont have the pool of players the likes of wigan and leeds have to choose from, kids in wigan grow up wanting to play RL, Leeds is a big city with much more amateur RL.

yes wonder what is happening with woodfield park, would be good to know

I heard that there may be problems with the drainage that would prevent it from being turned into the facilities that they dreamed of. I also heard that KD may now be looking at selling it off again. However, this wasn't from the horse's mouth, so who knows!

It wouldn't have taken much research to realise the drainage down there was never very good,

Wigan cas Bradford offered the player you mention scholarships before they were legally allowed to, July 7th last yr was date you could hence why by magic weekend he hadn't been spoken too

That could well be true I know of 2 youngsters who were offered scholarships well before the date by Bradford -both subsequently signed for giants.

Clubs do I all time so begs question why have these rules if only one or two clubs adhere to it

Can someone tell me what Leeming did wrong last week, l thought he would be sure to get another game against the Bulls.
l hope this is not another acadamy starlet that is doomed to get bit parts, before the likes of KR, or Wakey takes him off our hands to show us what he can do.
Good prospect deserves better.

Not much but when your captain and best player is fit to return then he is always going to play.

Bailey had a good game at cas playing hooker and again went very well v the bulls, that coupled with the return of Brough and you have him relegated from the team... wood and robinson also favoured ahead of leeming, just how anderson see's it im afraid.

maybe if he scored a hat trick and missed no tackles then he would of kept his place! bailey got 2 tries though!