Am i right in saying he was quite late to game as in didnt start till 14s or 15s..

Yes.

Played football but his game was called off so turned out for Eastmoor.

Neither got scolaship although i know one was looked at but yes 2 good lads an scolaship not everything(not sure if you seen the play my eldest plaed with oe of them) ..yusef himself is a quality lad prpper down to earth helps out with scolaship lads too.his dad is turkish and he played for turkey in 2019.i really believe yusef will go well

Didnt know bout the footy but knew he was late coming his coach at time bash said straight away he had somthing hes a great guy too..

I coach one of them and I assure you both have the potential to play professionally.

COVID and lack of rugby will not have helped either...and a good few others I may add who are in the 16-14 age groups this year.

To help with the Covid situation, the academy has been changed back to U19’s so those that would have been in their final year last year are effectively getting an extension, but at the moment all academy and scholarship training has been stopped (apart from a couple who are in with the 1st team) fingers crossed these lads are going to get a real go this year as at the moment I don’t think there is an “official” reserves league, but I believe & hope there will be some club arranged reserve friendlies

Yusif Aydin is 6 ft 1 tall and 16 stones and only 20. When he's finished growing you'd think he'd be closer to 17 stones...

My 21 year 1month old lad is 6’4” and 17st centre, I hope he doesn’t get any bigger

He must have grown during lockdown.

He’s down as 6 foot 1 on Wiki but how accurate that is I don’t know but I’d say he looks about that. I’d say he’d be lucky to tip 15 stone though, doesn’t look 16 stone from what I could see. Not that I think it matters much at only 20.

I’d be surprised if he was much over 5’10”/11”.

He is a regular at training and matches supporting his brother, and he is a cracking lad I have to say too.

Very supportive family of all 3 boys and very grounded.

His dad isn’t very tall, I’d say shorter than me and I’m only 5’8”. I wouldn’t describe his mum as tall either.

Tbh 6 foot isn’t tall these days, I’ll take your word over Wiki.

Yes they have never said they didnt my lad played with both of them when they played in same team at eastmoor so seen plenty the team dispersed and they went diferent ways i know youngest stayed and played his own age while other lad qent to stanly where i know he gone ok.and 100% agree with covid not helping devlopment

Just a thought. I’ve just read an article that mentions loan periods are being cut due to Covid. I can’t seem to find the article but it says 2 weeks. Not sure if it’s recall or minimum term.

It just got me thinking that potentially we could have a look at the loan opportunities for prop forwards.

For example, Warrington seem fairly well stacked in the prop department. I believe they signed Butler as a project recently. I wonder if there’s any scope for a season loan or loan period.

The club probably have explored this option but just got me thinking while I was reading the article.

Rumoured to be letting Latu go