How has he played this season for the 19's? Not really heard much about his progress

I was only going on what scouts have said from further afield, there is 2 brothers 1 at wire 1s at fax, they have said the same when they've been at our lads game, our 14s & wests are into their 1st season in the top yorkshire league & are running away with it, where as East Leeds dominated it till we joined, & them lads are at Leeds academy & Leeds scouts are well impressed with ours.

Excellent post Chris.





I like the suggestion you have on sending Radders and/or Last out to Oz for a year to get some experience out there. How is Mcnamara getting on out there?

Exactly. It's bordering on him needing to be the next Darren Lockyer (and instantly) to live up to his billing. He's 17 and there were calls for him to be in the team to try and solve our halfback situation by May.

I'm keen to see him in action and may have even been one of the ones calling for his inclusion. Not as a permanent player. I think I maybe suggested trying him out against London for a bit of a run out.

But being honest, would you expect them to tell you they're rhubarb? I'm not saying they are, but they're bound to be polite to you aren't they? And a few lads at one age group impressing a bit doesn't make our area the best hotbed of RL talent in the country. If it truly was and there were many top talents there to be developed, the law of averages says that we would be seeing Hull lads getting snapped up by other clubs and coming through their academies in greater numbers. They can't all just be being ruined or going to waste at the 2 Hull clubs.

Don't follow the u19s much so someone else can provide a better answer than me. Skimming through the reports on the official website it sounds like he creates a lot of tries for us and has a good kicking game.

We don't have either quality half backs or a good pack.

Add that to our excuse of a coach and that's why we are 3rd bottom o the league

There is a lot of younger lads in the 19s tbf, Ross Osborne has only just turned 17.

Would that be good for him at this stage though? As you say, if he's not absolutely brilliant from the off a lot will be disappointed, and it might actually hamper his development. I know a lot was said about 'it's only London', but all that does it make it worse, because people were writing London off so much as to make it seem like it should be easier for him, which just adds to the pressure/expectation for him to deliver. It might be different if he would be coming into a decent, organised side that would look after him, but coming into this rabble with the fanbase desperately hoping for him to provide the direction and organisation that we need is a huge ask.

Fair point.



Looking at the 19 man squad for tomorrow you certainly wouldn't want him coming into that. Only nine of the 19 were regular FC players last year and two of them (Shaul and Lineham) are still fairly new to the game. The rest are either off-season signings or academy products. Add in the constant shuffling of the team week in week out and we don't seem to have any cohesion. Ideally he needs to be tried when we can offer a settled side.

Well for me if you want to make the highest quality and best tasting cake you have to use the finest ingredients and know how to use them etc.



You can't make the best by using an inferior ingredient for example using turd in place of chocolate as it will ruin all the quality ingredients you use. Although the cake may look the same it will still taste of turd no matter what you do if you still keep using turd.



Also even if you use the highest quality ingredients its no good if the person you ask to bake doesn't use the right amounts or correct formula as the same thing will happen.