I find it a bit disappointing and concerning Leeds only have 3 players that have made it into the England youth training squads. This compares with Wigan who have 10, St Helens 6, Warrington 5. Even Cas have more players in the squad than us with 4.

the recruitment and developement has been poor for a number of years now .

Understand your concern, however the lower level representatative squads are in no way a good indicator of future super league players.

Leeds are actually a good example of this over the years. We often matches or bettered other teams numbers in National squads at junior level, however few, if any have turned into regular, quality SL players.

The recruitment of the really talented is ok, although missed out on a fair few last couple of years, development is poor. But what Leeds have done is tie up with too many clubs and tender to favour them for recruitment. Stanningley an example, where too much is based on who you know, rather than talent.

In respect of the OP's point though, I wouldn't get overly worried, as the national academy sides have always had Lancashire bias to them, and never really changes, as I think they mainly have their get together there.

Jack Walker from the Academy should have made the England squad, can't believe he has been overlooked

That is down to injuries mate. He has had a lot of injuries that he is building through. Leeds don't want him having additional. They also have good halfs in that academy squad.

There's plenty of potential amongst our current u19's & u16's wrt u15's i don't know.
Morley is an interesting appointnent because he doesn't come across as a Mc.D yes man like Plume so time will tell how many come through.
Saying all that i have zero faith in our current 1st team Coaching set up developing these promising youngsters.

Young Jack Broadbent should have had a call up to U16s along with Tommy the Tank.

Corey Johnson, Unlucky to miss out ?

The List published for the 16s is only partial, Leeds have in fact 10 players in the 40 Performance squad

Liam Whitton
Jack Broadbent
Harvey Spenve
Will Scrimshaw
Tom Holdroyd
Corey Johnson
Harry Georgiou
Brad Martin
Sam Moorhouse
Henry Mitchell

Does that mean we have to stop whinging?

Forgot about Brad Martin. Another stud from what i saw of him last year. Very impressive 2nd rower.

The Performance squad has now been reduced to 24 players, the team for the upcoming tests against france will be picked from this.

Leeds have 5 Players in the 24 man squad

Tom Holdroyd
Brad Martin
Harvey Spence
Corey Johnson
Jack Broadbent

Well done lads

Great thread this

Why?

Because...

Sorry, not following you. This is a RL forum where people talk about RL. This thread is about juniors and someone asked a question and others answered with their personal knowledge and opinions. Your post is the only irrelevance so far. The rest was actually quite informative.

Some very good young kids in that list. Some are mates of my youngest who has played with and against most of them. If developed correctly there is a nucleus of very promising talent there.

They better make sure they are the real deal by the age of 19 then.

Otherwise, goodbye... whether they are developed correctly or not.

Yup. And it will be very hard to keep Corey. Hopefully so, but Cas desperately want him back with them, and who is more attractive to a youngser?

No the thread isn't about juniors. Yes it might have turned into an informative thread about juniors but it was started for the sole purpose of moaning (as usual) about Leeds. This latest moan was about Leeds only having 3 players in the squad whilst other clubs like Wigan had as many as 10. Heck, even Cas had more than us with 4!!

The OP might have been justified in his moaning had it not been pointed out to him that Leeds have actually got 10 players in the squad. Hence my "great thread this" comment.

I'd imagine that'd be the biggest and most successful club in SL, wouldn't it?
If I was a youngster, that's where i'd be aiming to play.

I think what you would do and say is probably the opposite of what someone looking for a future in the game would do. The kid will use his head.

So now, moving to Leeds = having no future in RL ?

You've surpassed yourself with that one Gotcha.

where did he say that? and you accuse others of making things up

he said cas were the best option right now. I don't agree mind but that's what he said