I don't know if I'm missing something here, but as I understood it, the RFL fund academies in order to avoid this sort of thing. The clubs are just responsible for providing coaches. Surely there are enough full time players at both clubs who are thinking of moving into coaching once their playing career is over and u16's/u19's is surely a better place to cut your teeth in the coaching world ie Burrows and Ablett at Leeds.

It has been mentioned that there are only 140 lads playing RL at under 14's level in Hull, which is a shocking statistic and needs addressing, however the world does not end in Hull. There are plenty of teams playing in West Yorkshire but the Hull clubs are not interested. My son plays in the Yorkshire Junior u13's league and we have scouts from Leeds, Wakefield, Bradford, Wigan and Warrington at almost every game, but we have yet to see anyone from Hull or Rovers make the journey into Castleford. Agar may get a lot of criticism on this forum but at least he opened his eyes and brought lads from West Yorkshire over to Hull.

ive been watching the x-files box set recently, so I have my conspiracy head on as I type this:
what if, pearson and allam have been along, allam has always said he would have ONE rugby team in hull(merge them). pearson runs us down into the depths of disrepair, we get to small a attendance that having us at the KC isn't financially viable anymore. allam buys fc from pearson, already input a £1m(interest free loan) into kr, and instead of calling that back, could take over the reins from hudgell.
move hull fc to mini kc and merge the 2 teams together. he can then take over at the kc stadium!!!!
DUM DUM DUMMMMMMMMMMMM

no whiskey mate think I may have been abit light headed when typing it...after being abducted by aliens

Which one, is Assem retiring?