Two good wins to start the Reserves season 48 - 0 vs Bradford and 46 - 10 vs Cas, played some good rugby and scored some cracking trys. Plenty of the players still eligible for the Academy aswel. Always interested to see how the younger players are developing physically at the start of a season and we certainly look a big athletic team right across the park with 7 or 8 players somewhere between 6 ft 2 and 6 ft 6.

The Academy season starts this week after a cancellation to the opening round fixture.

Good promising start to Tony Smiths tenure.

The ever impressive Mark Butterill has a good set of players to work with this season, the U16's especially are a great intake, which more or less sweeped up all the best players in the Yorkshire league. Theres other good players in the group but the Names to watch out for imo:

Harry Smith - HB
Pressley Cassell - 13
Harley Thomas - FB/C
Callum Webster - BR/C
Joe Butterfield - Prop
Dylan Hutchinson - HB/FB
Marcus QareQare - FB/W
Jermaine Oladipupo - Prop
Jacob Stead - BR

The U15's intake missed a few players who are heading over to Lancashire, 2 going Saints, 1 warrington and Cas kept a couple in Yorkshire, but still a good intake, led by Zak Lloyd from Siddal, who's the best U15 in Yorkshire, and from what iv seen, in the country imo, big, fast, skillfull, intelligent. He can play anywhere, FB, 6, 13, Centre, SR...And he's excellent in all of them, interested to see where the club play him.

Yep. Good indicators that we are finally moving in the right direction from the bottom upwards.

Did anyone go to the game last night v Castleford ?
Big win for the Academy and it sounds like a few of the first year  ones were the standouts.

watched highlights of the bulls game and both centres looked very big, mobile and quick. very impressive.only brief highlights obviously and playing the bulls who might not be the best test. sure others will know better

Jacob Hardy looks a real standout in U18’s playing centre but has some versatility.
Both Tooala and Hetherington at centre at U16 also look good. 


We seem to have a load of centres coming, hope we can get a few different positions coming as well.


In a world of huge props , both of JJB’s lads look a bit short to me but not seen a lot of them to know if other attributes can compensate 

A decent win last night for a young reserves vs an experienced Bradford team - including a few first team players like Ebon Scurr. Now Warren has gone out in loan we look a little light in the front row, Cassell was starting at prop for us