Scott Taylor

Quote: Vectrabeast "I honestly don't know to be honest but I know as much as the current U20's players know at the moment. They believe that no over U18's will be able to play under 18's rugby and the only option open to them is loan or dual reg.

It all seems very strange. I work with a Swinton player and they are pairing up with Warrington next season with the understanding that most of their fringe players like Currie, Dwyer Gareth O'brien etc will be on dual reg with Swinton. I don't know how that would work with us given that arguably our entire U20's side are on the fringe. He is of the opinion that there are only Wigan and salford scrapping the U20's which doesn't match up with what was said at a meeting last week between the U20's coaching staff and players.

Did you see my PM the other day about what was said at the meeting with the U20's?'"

Surely Wigan are going to have more than 6 players that they wish to DR with their partnered club (lets say Scorpions for the sake of argument) ? So where will the rest go ? And I would suggest that even 6 DR's in a single club is probably too many for the Scorpions to take in one match, as it will leave little head room for their own players and annoy their fan base to boot.

Another interesting point in all this is that those Champ. clubs that have SL aspirations (Fev. Fax, Leigh) don't seem to have partnered up yet (for some strange reason

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This entire process appears to be a complete fiasco. I suspect the lack of any formal announcement from the RFL probably means that there is no real agreement at either SL or Champ. level, and the end result will be that a very good youth development prog. will be destroyed and a lot of youngsters thrown on the scrap heap - all because clubs like HKR and Cas need to save money.