Mikey wood : Sun Oct 15, 2017 6:45 pm  

On loan to Bradford for next season.
This will be excellent for his development. As a player stood our head and shoulders in the U19s. He now needs the regular game time.

Re: Mikey wood : Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:37 pm  

yeh see if he can make an impact in league 1 and come back a better player

Re: Mikey wood : Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:42 pm  

Mikey is exactly the sort of player who would benefit from playing reserve grade rugby on a regular basis if we had a reserve team.Mr Thewlis in the press release is quite critical of his last couple of seasons with the club but in reality how many minutes of rugby has he played being shoved out on loan and dual reg ,not enough to develop properly from a Great Britain academy player i think.I am puzzled at how our neighbours at Halifax can run a reserve team and we can't and i can see it has been very productive for them in terms of player development ,they even play some of their home matches at Huddersfield YMCA

Re: Mikey wood : Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:27 pm  

aliw2001 wrote:

Mikey is exactly the sort of player who would benefit from playing reserve grade rugby on a regular basis if we had a reserve team.Mr Thewlis in the press release is quite critical of his last couple of seasons with the club but in reality how many minutes of rugby has he played being shoved out on loan and dual reg ,not enough to develop properly from a Great Britain academy player i think.I am puzzled at how our neighbours at Halifax can run a reserve team and we can't and i can see it has been very productive for them in terms of player development ,they even play some of their home matches at Huddersfield YMCA

Personally think it's a bad business move not to run a reserve grade. Yes it will cost us initially- but if we are able to develop home grown players then financially we would benefit down the line on salary cap.

Re: Mikey wood : Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:00 pm  

not doing too bad with youngsters coming through at the giants

leeming
roberts
mason
dickinson
wood
mcintosh
simpson
english
farrell

Re: Mikey wood : Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:14 pm  

They would be doing even better if they were retained in the club's structures and playing in a reserve team where appropiate

Re: Mikey wood : Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:38 pm  

prob down to money, ken davy is pretty good with that

used to enjoy going upto the ymca to watch the reserves mind.

not the only sl club not to run a reserve team, we run a good academy though dont we, one of the top rated

Re: Mikey wood : Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:13 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

prob down to money, ken davy is pretty good with that

used to enjoy going upto the ymca to watch the reserves mind.

not the only sl club not to run a reserve team, we run a good academy though dont we, one of the top rated

I reckon the likes of Nathan Mason would have benefitted greatly from us having a reserve grade.

Re: Mikey wood : Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:19 am  

Agree with this, it also means that players come into the first team ready and up to speed when called upon

Re: Mikey wood : Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:28 am  

Wigan ,Warrington ,St Helens,Hull all ran teams last season.If we had one it would be somewhere for Jamie Ellis to play when he returns to the club