With the Cup Draw this morning, I wonder if Brett will look to take advantage of the chance of a little squad rotation to give some fringe players an opportunity. With this in mind, I looked at our squad, and we are a little light in numbers, so looked at the Academy squad, and a couple of names stood out.

Ewan Badham is a 19 year old Welsh prop. He definitely has the build and size to hold his own, and his YT reel looks outstanding. Anyone seen him play? Is he one of the twins that we signed from Wales - cannot see his brother in the squad lists?

Aidan Burrell - a young prop who Chris Satae had said all the Hull forwards had been very impressed with during pre season. At 17 he is probably a bit too young, but with some experienced heads around him in the Cup game, he could be given a shot.

I would perhaps expect players like Ferreira, Scott, Wynne, McNamara to get some game time too during the Fev game

I believe Ewan Badham ate his twin brother Ieuan and at 122kg now has the power of two men.

Although he isn't an Academy player anymore I'd like to see Wynne get a go against Fev. He can biff the flatcappers about a bit and his inevitable suspension won't hurt us in the league.

Hahaha brilliant post

But yeah they were the Welsh twins we signed. One went back home for some reason not sure, but I echo your post would be good to see some of the young uns.

He certainly does like to biff the flat clappers.
Am I right in thinking he was sent off for fighting against them in an U21 game?

Yeah he was, got a few head high tackles during the game then he just started throwing punches after another and got sent off

I was stood near the Fev bench and they all mentioned Wynne was a hot head and to intentionally wind him up to get him sent off.
It certainly worked.

Academy season starts this weekend and iv noticed in your team named you have a lad called Nick Staveley, he's a Stanningley junior who's been in Warringtons scholarship the last 2 seasons but didnt sign an Academy contract with them.

I imagine every club in super league were trying to sign him and it looks like you have, he's one of the best young talents iv seen, a 13 with great skill and an absolute bull. The two 17 yearold lads at Leeds...Morgan Gannon, who was class in superleague for us on friday, and Levi Edwards have been described as generational talents...Staveleys the same age group and he's right up there with them.

One to keep an eye out for you.

Cheers mate.

Just looked at his profile photo. 17? he massive!!

And he's very skillful, played a lot of 6 for Stanningley. His dad, also Nick, is an ex pro and absolutely massive himself, if you follow his social media, he does a lot lf extras with his lad which explains the size of him at 17.

He's a brilliant talent imo

Great post mattsrhinos 1978, thanks for the information.

It’s good news the resumption of the academy, and this lad was down to play at Wakey yesterday.
Gannon and O’Connor look excellent prospects at Leeds.

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Great to see academy back, 14 months without a game.

Quote ="ccs"You can watch the full academy game against Wakefield here... https://en-gb.facebook.com/wakefieldtri ... rect=false'" thanks ccs i will watch this as i thought we had as strong academy squad with seven of them training with our first team but from the scoreline 32-14 its looks like it was a bit of a drubbing particularly as we scored late in the game to make it 14 points

Quote ="ccs"You can watch the full academy game against Wakefield here... https://en-gb.facebook.com/wakefieldtri ... rect=false'" thanks ccs i will watch this as i thought we had as strong academy squad with seven of them training with our first team but from the scoreline 32-14 its looks like it was a bit of a drubbing particularly as we scored late in the game to make it 14 points

Not like to be negative, its first game in 14 months, at least give them a chance, what was the average age of both squads?

Academy rugby isnt really about results, it's about development of players making sure as many as possible are ready for professional rugby.

Quote ="ccs"You can watch the full academy game against Wakefield here... https://en-gb.facebook.com/wakefieldtri ... rect=false'" We looked rusty but not hapless. The Wakey team seemed a bit more prepared and they have some good players. A couple of our lads had to be taken off, Barron was one, I didn't see who the other was. Hope they are okay.

Quote ="ccs"You can watch the full academy game against Wakefield here... https://en-gb.facebook.com/wakefieldtri ... rect=false'" We looked rusty but not hapless. The Wakey team seemed a bit more prepared and they have some good players. A couple of our lads had to be taken off, Barron was one, I didn't see who the other was. Hope they are okay.

Agree, Wakey looked more "battle hardened" and made metres every time they had the ball. Their number 8 and 12 both looked good.

Hull's full back, Marcus Walker, went off towards the end with what looked like a shoulder injury

I see LR has offered a job to Danny Wilson at Cas next season. (Also Andy Last.)

Cas fans saying deals are done for both Andy Last and Danny Wilson.

And signing Westerman

Getting the band back together

One thing Radford needed to do was learn from his mistakes and bringing in the same coaching staff and some players aren't going to help that.

Not sure Wilson would be that big a loss, he has been there for a number of years and our academy hasn't exactly been that successful has it (The Rovers merger didn't help). Get a top youth coach in, with a history of finding and developing players, it can be done as Rovers have one from Bradford.

The only concern for me would be Cas signing players from us or the best academy players from the area, they did take advantage of the academy merger a couple of years ago.

Can't argue with that Dave, not sure having his mates with him helped him last time out nor the issues he couldnt sort with Westerrman & Watts together but time will tell I guess. With Evalds signing a deal to stay not sure if that rules out him making a move for Shaul, though can see Faraimo heading to Cas.

As for Danny Wilson he seems to be well respected but we've not exactly been pulling up any trees with the academy even with the merger farce.

With the massive news this morning, I'd doubt Wilson will he going to Cas.

Also gives us a massive advantage over Rovers, we are no in pole position to get the best local players and Cas wont be poaching our players for a while.

Not sure it's a great decision for the game though

It sounds like Rovers are not happy, a one sentence press release!

What is there to be happy about! I can't understand why a club that wants to run an academy and has put so much money and effort into it is been told their not allowed to do it.

It will be interesting but until we know for sure I won't rule anything out, though you would think he'd staying to be a part of an Elite set up.

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Agree with your thoughts Dave in regards to whether it good for the game in general or not