Re: SL Academies : Fri May 22, 2015 8:45 pm  

Does anyone actually take these scores seriously ??? We have brought the current man of steel through as well as the former England u19s captain. We made top 4 last year and went to wembley with a predominantly home grown squad. id rather my club carry on doing this and getting a bad score on a silly assessment.

Re: SL Academies : Fri May 22, 2015 9:14 pm  

It isn't so much based on quantities on players brought in but other factors like facilities

Re: SL Academies : Fri May 22, 2015 10:45 pm  

Cas Till I Die wrote:

Does anyone actually take these scores seriously ??? We have brought the current man of steel through as well as the former England u19s captain. We made top 4 last year and went to wembley with a predominantly home grown squad. id rather my club carry on doing this and getting a bad score on a silly assessment.

As I said, they give an indication over a period of years scores.

The fact that Clark came through Cas' academy isn't indicative of anything. Neither is one season's results at first team level. (Btw I make it as 14 out of Cas' announced squad of 30 were homegrown and 5/6 would be in the first choice 17 in 2014.)
Consistently training and developing youngsters to a high standard alongside other issues such as player welfare, training facilities etc is.

Re: SL Academies : Sat May 23, 2015 2:08 pm  

Without our youth setup constantly bringing SL players
Through cas are Hunslet, it's the only thing that keeps us as a top flight club, I'd rather us keep producing players for ourselves and the rest of the league rather than spending our limited resources on silly courses for players that won't make it to score higher on a silly assessment