Quote Big lads mate="Big lads mate"True Avenger,the result does look like it was all Wire but 2 or 3 wire try's at least could have been prevented,I think you and myself could have got nearer .the pleasing thing for the eye was we didn't play one man rugby and threw the ball about and created at times problems,when it didn't we got punished,the older end ,Jordan,Max,Swaney,Brad Moules,Declan and Keiron stood up well.I think it is Ackroyd,caused some problems throughout the game and even got a bit of roughing up from Wire,defenately a player with huge prospect in the future.'" Match report, albeit from a Wire perspective, here. www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... ademy_win/

Quote Big lads mate="Big lads mate"True Avenger,the result does look like it was all Wire but 2 or 3 wire try's at least could have been prevented,I think you and myself could have got nearer .the pleasing thing for the eye was we didn't play one man rugby and threw the ball about and created at times problems,when it didn't we got punished,the older end ,Jordan,Max,Swaney,Brad Moules,Declan and Keiron stood up well.I think it is Ackroyd,caused some problems throughout the game and even got a bit of roughing up from Wire,defenately a player with huge prospect in the future.'" Match report, albeit from a Wire perspective, here. www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... ademy_win/

Sounds like Morgan Smith was the difference and he's a Wakefield lad so We can take a bit of credit for their win.

A good kid,his grandad takes him to the games I think,lovely chap always comes over for a chat,I'm sure Morgan was a Leeds,or am I dreaming.

Morgan Smiths a Wakefield lad who played for Stanley Rangers, joined Rhinos Scholarship at 15 but was offered huge money for a 16 year old by Warrington.

originally he was with Normanton but after a fall out moved to stanley, he's a confident lad who shows it in the way he plays,

I have seen him off load to fresh air and then complain that someone should of been there, he's certainly not frighten of pushing the barrier and chancing his arm

Does anyone know if the 19s fixture is on tonight

Am I right that some clubs are offering large amounts of cash to U16's players - to unseat them from their scholarship places? Here was me thinking that all SL clubs were growing their own - I wasn't aware there was such a ruthless market for young players. And if they are doing that, how does the RFL rate them under their new grading system - surely offering 16 year old lads a big wad of cash is not a replacement for a viable youth set-up?

I suspect there's just been a very large case of this in the last few days!

I'm surprised that it's allowed to happen - I realise that market forces are at work and that players have a value, but it seems unsavoury that a club can sit back, do very little at U16, then hoover up all the best kids that other clubs have produced purely by force of cheque book; should young lads be subject to that form of ruthlessness at 16 years old?



And that's not to mention the total disregard for the community clubs who provide SL clubs with the raw material in the first place.

7.30 KO Bulls at home

What time did you say mate

24.4 to Wakey,great effort tonight got stronger as the game went on.Well done from 1 to 17.Continued the improvement from last week.