i haven't had time to read the previous pages but the last ten minutes of sundays game we seemed to have more stucture and desire to go forward.

If they are good enough then there will ,I'm sure,be decisions to be made,but when they are very happy with the coaches at where they are at the moment at 16,that is the main thing.Wearing a track suit with a big club badge on is one thing,playing for that club is another.We will just have to wait and see,I hope he proves all the doubters wrong and goes on,where ever he ends up,saying it was the commitment and understanding of the Wakey youth program .

not sure if I can post this but, this may be of interest to people on this thread

I'm sure you can't Dave.

El Rey.

As another perspective, I'm 20 years of age and only stopped playing in the last couple of years, playing in wakefield I saw a lot of the young players that would be coming through now as the exciting talent, I started playing at 13
There were 3 lads on my team at the Wakey scholarship and 1 at Cas, when we got to 16 Wakey dropped the one lad who IMO was the best most creative of the three, he had s bit of spark whereas the lads that were kept on we're big strong lads but unfortunately didn't really have much 'rugby league' intelligence
Getting to a few Wakefield Cuo finals I saw some of the best young lads and for some reason or another the lads who I consider the best (the ones you were worried about facing) weren't at Wakey
Since then the two lads they kept on: one was dropped and is now playing at Sharlston and the other (who was mysteriously dropped and then re-signed when his older brother Kyle signed for the first team) is still there I think

So, does anyone know how the system will work when there are only 10 academies?

I'd be surprised if the RFL knew. Long term planning is not their thing.