vastman wrote:
Surprised you've missed the point jonh.
He doesn't mean we'd disband it, he means it would get ransacked every years by SL clubs. Not having a go but your beloved Wigan would almost certainly be one. We could produce youngsters all day long but any who looked half decent would be off.
For a start the parasite club Salford who are so lazy they don't even have an Academy would see us as nothing more than battery farm doing what they should be doing.
Personally if we got demoted and there was no gangway back I'd disband the Academy as an utter waste of many. I'd just concentrate on helping local amateur clubs and hope that they can produce enough players to fill out our first team. It shouldn't be that way but if you were a farmer you wouldn't breed cattle in a field with no fences next to a motorway would you?
Not missed the point at all.
Unfortunately you are speaking from a position of ignorance on this, I am not.
Wakefield don’t get the pick of local juniors as it is.
We have to cope with Wigan, Warrington, Saints, Leeds already raiding the local clubs. If they offer Wakefield juniors positions 99% of the time they go.
I can name a number of local juniors from the crop of 13s this year who have chosen to do so. Wakefield supporters too.
We develop players rather than bring in the stars.
The system works at Trinity.
If we go down the system will continue to work.
Being in the lower division probably provides an easier pathway to first team rugby however that becomes problematic if we don’t bounce back fairly quickly.
The statement last night, if it was made as being reported, is very dangerous and has already caused quite a bit of concern within our junior playing ranks.
