Get in!!

That'll learn those flatcappers you don't need years of heritage and breed "RL playing only" players to win things.

Well done fella's.

Yeah that is a great achievement. Think they only started playing RL last year.

Expansion is important, but more important is successful expansion, non wasteful expansion

We have little enough money to start with, so chucking it down the drain of underfunded , badly planned ' whims' is not the best idea, maybe thats what Mr Mc Manus was meaning

it was a good result for that school as castleford schools seem to dominate schools rugby so well done and for what its worth i would put another french team in SL before any northern team

SL wasnt the subject under discussion, as for schools, few play the sport around here, its all club RL now

This is the problem though. The RFL is not a smart organisation. It is amateurish and remains the stumbling block to the development of the sport.


Exactly. I thought that was the idea behind the C1 expansion plans of the RFL and then up they popped with the Northampton concept. I shouldn't have been surprised really given the RFL's inability to learn from its own (frequent) mistakes.

I would just like to distance myself from the little negative comment made by my club's chairman (I have expressed my opinion on the Saints board also). Not all Saints fans agree with him although obviously some do (and there is a contingent in all the fanbases of northern clubs who do).

And I was thrilled to learn about Howard of Effingham. Cas has dominated the schools scene for years. I have no idea how they manage it given that their Superleague side is middling at best but they certainly produce the school age players. To beat a Cas school AND at Wembley AND after only playing league for a year is a tremendous achievement. Well done to them.

Around where exactly? Loads of schools play it here in St Helens as they do in Wigan and Warrington. In St Helens we have a schools competition each year, the finals of which are always played at Saints.

Quite funny really. A load of Union players who openly have little interest in League win the national Year 7's. Ouch for Rugby League.

Good luck to them I say. Any Southern school beating a Northern one at their own game is fine by me.

Not many in Leigh and I have seen scholarship lads from pro clubs refusing to play for their school teams citing instructions from the clubs coaches

it's a good job I am not known for winding-up some of the more insecure posters on here.......I'd have a field day with that