Watching Hull KR this season after finishing bottom of the league last year can’t believe this hasn’t been discussed more. Normal year last year and Hull KR would have been battling it out in the championship. They’ve invested heavily in youth over the last couple of years and are now seeing the results. Surely a licensing system needs to be brought back in to give teams the chance to blood younger players without the threat of relegation every year. I know it’s not as simple as that with expansion etc all on the cards but we seem to copy a lot of what the Aussie league does apart from this and the gap between the 2 leagues has never been bigger than now

All this is true but that’s not the point, they are hardly a beacon of youth even by RL standards. We currently have more young players directly from our Academy. Some will drop out this year but more will come into the first team to replace them.

Our youth development has yet to spark a real golden age but I feel we are getting there and eventually it will click. We are imho far more down the line in youth development than HKR.

Absolutely not in the context of what the poster put - HKR have NOT "invested in youth".

I know thats what I said

They have invested in youth, it’s just other people’s youth

Rovers are certainly using Hull FCs investment in youth to pad out their squad. I wonder how Hull FC might have performed had they kept hold of Litten, Crooks, Hadley and Abdull ?

Absolutely agree.

KR have brought in some youngsters with a view to developing them further.
Trinity have a number of youngsters who have come through our own system.

Ultimately, all that most fans want is a winning side to support.
To have a winning side AND have it stacked with club trained players would be the icing on the cake and the cherry on top.

The fundamental here is that ALL SL clubs need to be contributing to the player pool and Trinity are doing exceptionally well in this department - the best it's been in all the years that you or I have watched Trinity - let's hope that it continues for years to come.