that's crap Seth
And goes against what I'd heard

My experience of contacting the RFL over a dispute with YJARL has been less than positive - but good luck!

Waterhead beat warriors 21-18 in a pretty scrappy affair.

Well acording to YJRL onTwitter last night - if you're still in the cup & you lose this weekend then you have to use your postponement , but if you win then you'll have to use it in the next round !
Pathetic !

We've got to use it this coming weekend as no one else in our division is left in the cup.

There's only 2 teams still not in the cup in Div 1 - so going off what they're saying , then everyone else will have to use there's up !

The problem for us comes as we're not playing a team in the cup so therefore have to use ours this weekend and if we get through have to throw our league game 0-18 when we play in the 1/4s. The games with 2 barla cup teams will get the opportunity to delay their postponement til the following round should they get through. Either way the governing bodies need to sort the shambles out.

Yeah ..I see what you mean now . Absolutely ridiculous - like you say , if you've got to throw a game 18-0 then that's making their own league a farce .
You'd think they'd be fully behind a YJRL team winning the national cup , not punishing them for it !

Anyone attend the Embed the Pathway session at Wakefield yesterday?

Some interesting stuff and plenty food for thought

No I was busy, though I must say I'm strongly opposed to the notion that somehow no rep rugby until u15s is a good thing. That combined with saying an extended CPD programme replaces this and the idea of volunteer coaches profiling their players and feeding back to the rfl is barking. They ought to save their pennies rather than buying 'embed the pathway' jackets, bags, ipads and nice lunches!

I got the impression from our secretary,that it was irrlevant who your opponents were.
Basically you have one postponement allowed to be used in the barla cup,but it carries forward with you each round you remain in the cup.Once you are out of the cup the postponement has been used.So in effect you can use the postponement 4 times.

I am still under the impression the YJARL have been told by the RFL (after being approached by BARLA) that YJARL are not to penalise any team for their participation in the BARLA national (and any future) cups.
However I do understand that they are sometimes known for making up their own rules when the situation suits

Im complaining, i never got an Ipad !!

there will be a lot of oppostition to the RFLs plans, for some Rep rugby is the be all and end all for everything, but when you look at the facts and figures they present, you can see why they are trying to address the drop out rates and the reasons for kids dropping out at age 14 and 15 preodiminantly.

Teams having to postpone fixtures or have blank weekends because 6 or8 of there squad are away with rep teams, players having to choose between training with there club or scholarship team.

problem is that kids are identified at 10-12, get into these squads at 13 -14and stay in, yet ones who develop at 14-16 struggle to break in to the existing set ups.

The whole concepts need re-assessing, ETP may not be the right way going forward but at least they are looking at a different approach.

Im sure we all know kids who stood out head and shoulders above everyone, made every rep team, scholarship. Academy etcy etc but are no longer playing or are in a pub team ?