So kids in west yorkshire and lancashire ignore the fact RL is a dangerous sport and come through to SL in large numbers?

Doesn't hold much water when wigan saints and wire have the likes of man u, man city, liverpool, everton, bolton, blackburn etc on the doorstep but still produce more top class players in a season than Hull have in a generation.

You have so many excuses about the failure of our youth set up that I'm thinking you must be steve crooks or andy last

The problem with Agar picking any of your youngster is that he knows that a couple of losses and you lot will be on his case to be sacked? He can't win

What a magnificent contribution you make to RLfans. 40% of your posts are slating FC, including 4 in one thread recently demanding a lengthy ban for Mark O'Meley's legitimate hit on Roby, which you were the only person in the world to see that night on Skysports news. Well done.Excellent stuff.

Ludicrous statement.

The Champions Schools tournament is huge with schools taking part from all over England as well as Scotland and Wales. Sure the figures are something like 30,000 secondary school pupils take part in it each year, the figures are rising year on year as well.

Hull schools are very strong with Winifred Holtby year 7's winning the Yorkshire Cup.

I work at St Marys College and our year 10's were Yorkshire Cup Finalists and National Cup Quarter Finalists this year, with 4 of our players representing Hull and HKR foundation sides.

To place the blame at schools is madness.

I guess it depends what school a kid goes to and how much into league the P.E teachers at that school are.
this year so far my kid has only played one full game versus another school and a mini tournament with less than an hour of playing time, they never do any rugby training because the teachers said they are too busy and they have been told that they won't be getting another game again this year.

Muddyboots, in my day was the headmaster at Riley got a new one when i was at school and just closed the team down.
Even though a few years before the entire team where signed by the profesonal clubs, as later Constable youth club where also .