Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:52 pm  

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

This is great, playing Championship rugby is certainly the best place to be for our young players, but how are we going to field a reserve and academy side with so many players playing for other clubs?

My guess is the 6 Leeds players in the Fev squad are likely candidates for the hybrid reserve squad and I can't see any of them playing for Fev this year barring a rash of injuries. I don't think it;'s a coincidence that 4 of the 5 players that Fev retained from last year's reserve squad are outside backs given Leeds seem to have much more depth in their forward youngsters than in their backs.

So my guess you'll see...the likes of A Sutcliffe, McLelland, L Briscoe playing for Fev on DR when not selected by Leeds
...the likes of Holroyd & Walters going to Bradford on loan
...the likes of Dupree, Whitton, McConnell, O'Connor, Spence, Waite-Pullan and a few other Leeds youngsters, plus around six Fev reserves, making up the hybrid reserve team.

[Frosties.]

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:16 pm  

Jack Broadbent, Jarrod O’Connor, Luke Briscoe, Tom Holroyd and Muizz Mustapha all chosen for Featherstone on Sunday v Hull KR. Wellington Albert also included.

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:20 pm  

Frosties. wrote:

Jack Broadbent, Jarrod O’Connor, Luke Briscoe, Tom Holroyd and Muizz Mustapha all chosen for Featherstone on Sunday v Hull KR. Wellington Albert also included.

Holroyd is in the Leeds squad for Sunday too

[Frosties.]

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:13 pm  

christopher wrote:

Holroyd is in the Leeds squad for Sunday too

Broadbent, O’Connor, Walters, Dupree played for Featherstone today with Albert also playing on loan.

[Frosties.]

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:42 pm  

Mclelland, O’Connor and Briscoe chosen on dual registration for Featherstone. Albert plays.

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:02 am  

Him wrote:

And that’s what Leeds will use it for won’t they? It’s just they’ve put loan and DR above the reserves. Which I can entirely see the logic behind as it will be higher quality.

Not sure why that decision is described as farcical?

Using Fev is exactly what we should be doing and exactly why DR was brought in, to essentially try and replicate the feeder club system in the NRL. Just because other clubs couldn’t be bothered to make it work isn’t Leeds fault. Don’t see why we shouldn’t maximise that relationship and use Fev players in the reserves to both help them and provide a stepping stone between Fev’s academy (such as it is) or ours and first team for Fev.

All Leeds have done is put the reserves down a notch in terms of the pathway a player could take, quite rightly too in my opinion.

So under the dual reg system which was Hetheringtons brainchild how many full international players have Leeds produced? How many academy championships have they won?

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:15 pm  

Leeds choose to send academy players on loan rather than stockpile them.
but then you know that....

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:35 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

So under the dual reg system which was Hetheringtons brainchild how many full international players have Leeds produced? How many academy championships have they won?

Who gives a flying feck who wins academy championships?

As for full internationals, probably only a couple less than Wigan despite Leeds struggling at the bottom of the table

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Mon Feb 03, 2020 6:56 pm  

Back on topic, it’s a real shame we didn’t get Tom Davies, he has the kind of pace we are missing and would have let Harry Newman continue his education in the Centres rather than out of position on the wing.

Re: 2020 | Loan & DR Watch : Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:01 pm  

batleyrhino wrote:

Back on topic, it’s a real shame we didn’t get Tom Davies, he has the kind of pace we are missing and would have let Harry Newman continue his education in the Centres rather than out of position on the wing.

I think he's injured again.