Warrington have always been stalkers of junior talent at other clubs and have always offered very nice incentives to entice them over there rather than find talent and nurture it

In recent years they have gazumped us with higher offers for Brooke Broughton,Micky Learmonth and Morgan Smith and none of those lasted very long there.
IMO Morgan Smith was a very talented half back whilst at the Rhinos but the Wolves ruined him by trying to turn him into a 9 without any success

The Wolves have recruited Pete Riding over to the club to hopefully improve their identification of junior talent,he was very highly regarded at identifying junior talent whilst at the Cas Tigers before joining them.
He also had spells at both Wakefield and Huddersfield

If all else fails then they are not shy in offering the big money to young kids

Any chance / rumours we might take anyone from another team?

Not that I'm aware of. Leeds did make a discreet enquiry a few weeks back to see if a lad from another club would be receptive to an offer but he said no.
One of the England squad was holding out expecting an offer from Leeds but it never came.

Cant see Leeds putting an offer in for anyone outside of their club. £10000 is a lot to pay for potential(Look at the mess Warrington 19s are in) history suggest they will just continue to develop their own to the envy of many SL clubs . Ha mind you only 2 16s made the cut for England so the rest cant be good enough???

Thanks Matt and to all for comments. Had lost track of him but young scurr for Bradford started as a Wetherby bulldog, many moons ago.

On the wider point about signing on fees for young players it seems to me to reflect the lack of money around. I knew a few lads nearly 30 years ago who got over £10k and never made it. the best athlete went to Wigan and later played test football but he got over £50k, when you take into account inflation it's world's away from the chicken feed these days. Not surprising that wire can turn a few heads by offering a few sheckles.

Will be interesting to see who gets kept on this year, possibly there will be a couple kept on that maybe wouldnt of been if it wasnt for the change from u19's to u18's at academy level, all clubs are going to need more numbers. Which straight away is a bonus of the new reserves / 18's structure imo

Think we'v only got 9 or 10 first years in our Academy so could see 12 to 14 of the scholarship getting contracts to make up the 18's squad.

Not sure who they are but I believe 5 of the 19s was told 3 weeks ago that they was getting released.

Cheers. From the little iv seen, the looks extremly good, but not seeing it atall with the fullback

Scrimshaw
Martin
Georgiou
Moorhouse
Hamill
Russell

Scrimshaw and Georgiou were always rubbish, and only in because of Scrimshaws dad. I would be shocked if Martin was one.

Im shocked by Martin and Moorhouse being released, poor decision by the club imo. The others, i agree with. Is this your opinion DJ or are these deffinatly the 5?

From what I’ve heard, only 3/4 going from scholarship so big intake coming up
Sorry Markland too

Thought we'd be taking a lot on from scholorship this year, but would still of kept Martin and Moorhouse for sure. Interesting times.

This was as of two weeks ago

I’d be disappointed if the club didn’t persevere with Martin and Moorhouse, both could develop well in the reserves competition.

I'm more shocked by Moorhouse than any of the others. Hes had injury issues but seems to go ok when playing. I doubt any of them will make it at Leeds anyway.

Martin looked great in 16s but hasn't kicked on at all.

Moorehouse is the one thats shocked me especially with the reserves kicking in. I like Markland he can play but every time i watch him it's like he's holding back ? When he's in the mood the lad can play but unfortunately i'm guessing the club like me haven't seen enough of it. Martin I agree Marty was a standout in the 16s looks too heavy and lacks mobility lately for me. Might kick on again under a different system but looks to have gone backwards past few years.

5 lads selected for England u16s v Wales and 1 in the Welsh team. Maybe just maybe the selectors arent biased against Leeds they just want to give everyone in the development squad a game.

Nah Marty I stick by my original comments....

16s currently losing at Warrington 18-12 at HT. Levi Edward's and Joe Gibbons with the tries for Leeds.

16s currently up 28-18 with 5 to go.

FT 34-18 to Leeds. Thought young Oli Field had an excellent game at 6. Edwards and Wallace raised the team off the bench. Gibbons in 2nd row made errors but also did some quality stuff and lads like Morgan Gannon, Nicholson-Wattom, Little and Nichol all contributed.

Really good game to be honest.

How did parsons and Aldridge’s and Gatus do?

Gatus took his try well ran the ball back strongly but wasnt good under the high ball. He let a few bounce and didnt look comfortable at all under them.

Jonah Parsons is a ridiculous player, how he gets thru so often is unbelievable. Nobody can tackle him. He played at 7 but hes a 9 for me.

Aldridge?
You reckon parsons tough enough to be a 9?