Academy Rankings : Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:58 pm  

http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Academy% ... 202014.pdf pinched from here

http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Academy% ... 202014.pdf pinched from here

Re: Academy Rankings : Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:51 pm  

Expected us and Saints to get top ratings, but surprised Leeds aren't up there with us.

Re: Academy Rankings : Wed Jul 16, 2014 7:21 pm  

Geoff wrote:

Expected us and Saints to get top ratings, but surprised Leeds aren't up there with us.

The Leeds scores look weird as they had top marks last year but have gone down significantly this year. I wonder what the reason is?

Re: Academy Rankings : Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:19 pm  

It mentions Leeds losing marks because their junior coaches aren't fully qualified (something along those lines).

Re: Academy Rankings : Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:58 am  

However the ratings are worked out, its good that they're published and can be discussed openly. If the rating system is any good, over a long enough period they should clearly show why certain teams have been better than others. I'm not so worried by Leeds' downward blip, but I'd bet several of the teams scoring effectively zero have been in the same position for years.

Re: Academy Rankings : Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:49 am  

Given they've only been published for the last 4 years, it's too early to make any meaningful comparisons, but it might be interesting in another 5 years or so to look at academy performance vs 1st team & perhaps overall spending as well.
I'd like to see all available 4 years side-by-side: if creche performance is a measure of future 1st team success, two anomalies in there are Cas & Hudds.

Re: Academy Rankings : Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:58 pm  

Much as I would have expected apart from Leeds like others have said. It will be interesting to see Salfords next year to see if Koukash is pumping money into the youth development and to see if there are any improvements.