I see Lewis B has got a gig at Cas. Another young prop we lost.

Excellent young prop forward, and only going to get better. Big, strong, likes to run it in hard. We're going to really miss him because all of our other props are undersized.

We are the Top Rugby League Club for feeding players to the North!

We do not bring much to Rugby League though !

It would be great if he does make the mark.
The sport seems really short of good quality big props - and certainly no-one in Walmsleys league.

Rather he was making it in SL with us, tbh, I take no pleasure watching our promising youngsters leave for other sides, I find it gutting tbh.

Over 120 years of Rugby League so we're not doing too bad with our player development after just 40. Its about time RFL followed football & introduced compensation for clubs developing players even if they move at the end of their contracts.

Trouble is that unless we can get back to SL - AND stay there- it is going to be this way for the forseeable.
Perhaps one or two might return later in their careers (like Dixon) to provide us with some experience.
I had hoped LMS might but .....

Its a point Ive been making for a while, and you wont get there by having a team full of kids

Deeper issue here that we might be overlooking. Rob is a Medway product and so has been playing the game since a very young age. The Broncos pick people up at 15/16 and can still deliver - just think what we would be producing if we started at 7!

The thing is that once these players leave, they are very unlikely to return to London.
LMS for example probably has a very nice life, living in the Liverpool area.
Coming to London. He would either have to live away from his family. Or his lifestyle would suffer, due to house prices and the cost of living in London. For what ? A one or at best two year deal to play for the Broncos.
Would you do that ? I know I would not.

Agreed Vic, its the main reason why when in SL Broncos should have been given a bigger slice of the pie to keep it a level playing field. Sadly as we all know, short-sightedness in the north would never allow that to happen despite the money Fulham pumped into the game when setting up in 1980 & the benefit they got from snapping up the Fulham free agents.