You have already been answered by others



So unless the SL club is footing the bill then there is no benifit to the Championship clubs



Helping to develop SL players for SL clubs is counter productive to Championship clubs



The RFL wants clubs to poroduce thier own players to score browny points



Either the Championships are thier own comp in thier own right or they are a comp for feeder clubs



Nobody is going to invest in a feeder club , so if that is what they are they need funding from the relevant SL club



And the RFL are actively encouraging the Championship clubs to find investors , but then again the RFL havent a clue what they are doing from one minute to the next

I wouldnt be opposed to this, however the championship clubs would, as they know that they would be embarrassed by the likes of Saints and Wigan reserves giving them hammerings every week.

How many of the championship teams run under 21/ academy sides?

Cant see any mention of any on Widnes, Leigh or Halifax websites.



I know clubs do community work, but if they are merely running a first team and nothing else then i dont see how Championship clubs can complain about the RFL wanting them to do their bit for player develoment.

Sky in the early years of Super League used to show an hours highlights from an Academy Match each week (on a Tuesday Night if I recall) which they filmed from the venue of their live Friday Night match each week. But with most sides dropping academy curtain raisers (with the increase of ground sharing with football) and playing games at local amateur venues instead they had to stop doing it.

kevin penny would not get in at widnes but we could do with a impact player at prop on loan.

(no offence, just are wingers are playing well)

We run both a reserves and an 18's

i should have put our instead of are, i just shot myself in the foot.

Maybe that's because those competitions have not yet started



Widnes run both , Leigh run reserves but not u 18 ' because of financial constraints



Fax , I dont know yet but they did run reserves last year

Widnes are running with 12 of the 14 Super League clubs in the Gillette Academy (Under 18s) league to start next weekend. Celtic and Catalans are the two SL clubs that aren't.

Yeah Catalans run theirs in the French Academy (and reserves in the French Elite 1) whereas Crusaders while running reserves in the SL comp, run their Under 18s in the National Youth League (although they're near the top and will probably join the SL one soon). Leigh presumably use Leigh East and Leigh Miners Rangers as U18s both of which are in the National Youth League. Halifax run no reserves, but 12 Championship clubs run them (the teams with them can be found on the RFL website under NLs), although only Widnes run U18s in the academy, but Gateshead run one in the NYL (and possibly Keighley do, not sure how close the links to the Cougar Cubs is)

, Easts will finish either 6/7 and it looks likely that the National youth cup will be an all Leigh affair this year with Easts already in the final after beating Rylands today and Miners to play Oldham St annes in the other semi



Leigh Centurions dont currently have any input into the Miners and Easts although both clubs have players signed up for Leigh Centurions reserve side next season



Both Keighley and Gateshead also run teams in the NYL and next season I expect several more Championship clubs to tie up with amatuer clubs and run teams in this comp

Halifax aren't running a Reserves this season, Saving around £50k. Some of that money is going into the Scholarship Program with the view that the players in that will graduate onto an u18s or a Reserve Side next season, which is when we shall be re-entering that competition.