First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Monday) : Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:47 am  

Just a reminder that the best of the Cougars Under 18s emerging talent will be playing their first competitive game together under the 'extended scholarship' banner when they take on their counterparts from York City Knights tonight at Cougar Park , kick off 8pm.

The Keighley Side will feature players such as Martyn Broadley ,Jamie Stephenson, Matt Ross, Ben Stead and Jordan Atchison who have all already played in the Cougars Reserve grade this year as well as the table topping Cubs Under 18s National League side.

Re: First run out fo Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mond : Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:05 am  

Very good a new team getting a run out and being allowed to play at Cougar Park.

The Cougar Cubs under 18s love a run out at Cougar Park and their Friday night game last season was messed up as understandably Cougars don't want to open up and run at a loss for small crowds not paying.

Could the club therefore answer when if the bar is open and staff are down there on this Friday they still will not let the high flying Cubs under 18s play on the pitch. It might be a distraction from the spin that comes out of the question and answer session down there that night.

Running under 18s may be a bad idea at a loss.

So we do it for a new team, but when the bar is already open we make a high flying team providing the quality element of our own reserves play on a sloping dump with no facilities up the road.


Has the pride of Keighley got a plausible answer for that?

Re: First run out fo Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mond : Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:53 am  

VERY FRANK wrote:

Very good a new team getting a run out and being allowed to play at Cougar Park.

The Cougar Cubs under 18s love a run out at Cougar Park and their Friday night game last season was messed up as understandably Cougars don't want to open up and run at a loss for small crowds not paying.

Could the club therefore answer when if the bar is open and staff are down there on this Friday they still will not let the high flying Cubs under 18s play on the pitch. It might be a distraction from the spin that comes out of the question and answer session down there that night.

Running under 18s may be a bad idea at a loss.

So we do it for a new team, but when the bar is already open we make a high flying team providing the quality element of our own reserves play on a sloping dump with no facilities up the road.


Has the pride of Keighley got a plausible answer for that?

Perhaps you would get a reasoned response by contacting the club direct rather than this which whilst is great way to see fans concerns etc it is not an official forum of the club, just a thought.

Re: First run out fo Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mond : Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:54 am  

VERY FRANK wrote:

Very good a new team getting a run out and being allowed to play at Cougar Park.

The Extended Scholarship is not a 'new team' but is part of the RFL's Player Pathway' to develop young players in a professional club enviroment and is part of the Clubs development set up as were the under 15s and 16s who played at Cougar Park last Wednesday evening and the reserves who played the following evening.

Re: First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mon : Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:10 pm  

QUOTE"the Cougars Under 18s emerging talent will be playing their first competitive game together "

Don't know what made me think they were a new team.

Re: First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mon : Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:15 pm  

I love seeing the youngsters playing at CP, it's corny but true; they are the future.

Having said that, Cougars don't appear to have a cash surplus to be able to do just what they want.

I might be completely wrong here, but it just seems that certain individuals invloved, carry grudges against the club (or individuals within the club) and try to have a dig at any opportunity.

Perhaps the playground tactics should be left to the kids, whilst the real adults get round the table and talk.

I'd like nothing more than to see the first team bristling with young local lads.

Re: First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mon : Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:41 pm  

Dreamer wrote:

I love seeing the youngsters playing at CP, it's corny but true; they are the future.

Having said that, Cougars don't appear to have a cash surplus to be able to do just what they want.

I might be completely wrong here, but it just seems that certain individuals invloved, carry grudges against the club (or individuals within the club) and try to have a dig at any opportunity.

Perhaps the playground tactics should be left to the kids, whilst the real adults get round the table and talk.

I'd like nothing more than to see the first team bristling with young local lads.

No, I think you will find I am just asking a fair question.

If the answer is too difficult, then say it is a childish question having a dig.

But if the club is open on Friday, why are the Cubs being denied?

Re: First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mon : Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:56 pm  

VERY FRANK wrote:

No, I think you will find I am just asking a fair question.

If the answer is too difficult, then say it is a childish question having a dig.

But if the club is open on Friday, why are the Cubs being denied?

But you are asking it here, on a fans forum, when really, if you want the issue solved, you should be talking to one of the directors.

Re: First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mon : Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:42 pm  

Dreamer wrote:

But you are asking it here, on a fans forum, when really, if you want the issue solved, you should be talking to one of the directors.

OK Fair one.

Re: First run out for Extended Scholarship U18s TONIGHT (Mon : Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:44 pm  

The extended scholarship has been introduced this year by the RFL and this is their 1st game. The majority of the players playing tonight (11 of 17) are all Cougar Cubs players who play in the Gillette national youth league.
The reason why they are playing at cougar park tonight is because they are a cougars side, just as much as the under 23s are a cougar side.
I'm not sure why the cubs arnt playing here on Friday, but the cubs aren't actually connected to the club. They are as much connected to us as Keighley Albion or Town. We will support them in things that they do which we have been doing e.g. helping set up an under 8s side, but they are not our direct junior club.

Hope this explains why the side are playing at Cougar park tonight