Watched them again today and they look so impressive.very well coached and a couple of very good players

The 18s pulled off a sensational result today too beating a massive Warrington 34-18

We'll be handing most of the best ones over to rovers in a few months so wouldn't get too excited

Its ok mate, all the big clubs send out players on loan until they are ready to come back!

No, with this one, we pay for player development and they get to choose which ones they keep. I think everyone knows we'll get shafted somewhere along the line with a joint academy set up or grudge wouldn't be interested

I still can't see how something like this is going to work and why it's beneficial for us as a club. Has any real details come out?

To save gelt and increase the quality of the junior competitions, would be the obvious rationales - it isn't just a Rovers-Hull thing, btw, it's being considered across SL.

There is always a strain between providing opportunities and concerns about quality being spread too thin. At first team level we seem to swing between wanting rid of so many overseas players to give our own younger players a chance and cutting SL to as few as 10 teams to improve the standard (while inevitably reducing opportunities, but happily for the 10 providing a bigger slice of Sky cash pie).

There seems to be general acceptance that the junior grades do not provide very adequate preparation for the step up to SL. Hopefully by focussing resources and maybe having 2nd grade as under-21 or even under-23 the gap can be narrowed.