Sam Moorhouse has left the club to join Dewsbury Rams permanently.

I see this years under 16 are playing this weekend but at under 18 level against a NSW Country rep team. This would mean that under 15’s players will be playing against the touring team who are currently scoring at a point per minute against Community Lions. Could be two mis matches.

Be a great experience for all. Its about development.

Yep I agree no problem with that.

Looking forward to this double header.

me too.

I see Kevin’s lad is on the bench for the Under 16s which will be very interesting to see how he goes.

I don’t know if either side is strong enough to beat the Aussies, but there are a handful of really talented lads here, with a couple missing.

IMO there will definitely be a number of these fellas playing first grade in another few years. Our back row options are outstanding.

U16s got a big of a tanking against a huge NSW team. stand out were Levi Edward's and oli field.
the NSW U18s are warming up and are bloidy huge. massive

16's got beat 32 - 10 by NSW country. What level are the country team in the Australian system? Are they contracted to NRL clubs?

Oli Fields playing for the 18's next isnt he?

sorry. billy Davies. looked at wrong sheet

Under 18's got beat 34 - 4. Couple of big defeats for our junior teams today.

Understandable. We had 15 year kids playing against lads 2 year older. Billy Davies excellent for 16s but Aussie kids was much bigger and stronger.

Sounds like the A team plans are becoming a farce. Leeds wanted to use Fev players and the RFL have put a block to it or at least limited the number. Leeds then wanted to use a link with the University to use players from there and again vetoed. Its unclear from RFL the number of games the reserve league will be at this point so very difficult to plan for.

2 good tests against bigger and better opposition. some thrived, others left wanting. good games though

Both Teams will gain good experience from today neither took a backward step when it got tough but both were out muscled out skilled & out played.
Fwiw id love to see the birth certificates of both their age groups Forwards the u18's especially most of em looked & were built like 25yr olds.

Interesting, do you have any more details on this? Fev have probably six reserve-type players who aren't realistic 1st grade contenders this year and it was clear Leeds & fev ahd an arrangement for them to play in the Leeds reserve team, do you know what the extent of the RFL limitation is going to be?

The NSW boys are mostly contracted to NRL clubs, the u16 have had a great year and almost beat the NSW city team which contained the best young talent in Australia.
Would have been interesting to see how the Leeds under 16 players went against them instead of playing up 2 years.
Tom Holroyd and Jack Broadbent to name a couple are young enough to have played today in the 18’s game.
By the way, isn’t the young Sinfield lad only 14 ?

So were there u16's today the same age as our 16's from last season like Atkinson, Nichol, Watten, Field, Parsons etc? And there 18's today the same age as our 2nd year Academy players from last season like Holroyd, Jonhson, Broadbent, Walters, Whitten etc?

looked like it too

Yes Matt that’s what I was told . You only had to look at the size differential especially across the back. I thought the 16s held their own for long periods . Made some crucial errors at times towards the back end of half’s but they tried to play football and scored some good tries and the one that wasn’t looked good to me from where I was stood . I like the look of a lot of this side . Young Davies and Gannon were standouts today . Thought the prop Gunn did some good stuff too. Think the 3 kids off the bench were only 14 so it was always a big ask. A good game to watch though well done both sides

If that was the case then we did very well, 11 of our u18s today were last years 16s, if they were the same age as there 16's, then you'd think theyd give there 16's a serious game.

That’s the theory but I guess we will never know .
I enjoyed both games today thought the 16s was end to end and the 18s a bit conservative at times . Still nice to be back at the stadium watching Rugby again . Quite a few there I was stood with a load of parents from last years 16s and they loved the fact the boys were playing a touring side and were allowed to play at the stadium. As the saying goes rugby league was definitely the winner today !

Indeed, great experience for the lads. Did a bit of digging and it confirmed what you said, the lads in the NSW country u16's team were u16's this season gone, so the same age group as the 11 we had playing u18s today. Puts a much healthier perspective on our lads efforts.

Jack Sinfield was 15 a couple of months ago, i think Fin Rogers might still be 14, hes a scrum half but came on at full back and did well to be fair.

It was a big step up from what the young kids are used to but it wont harm them and it will have been a good experience and good learning curve for them.