Wining is important, but so is youth development. If we bring some youngsters through now it would be even harder for the RFL to turn us down. I think we can do that as well as stay competitive.

If the RFL want to shaft us, and I've every reason to believe they will, we need to be strong in both those departments in order to make that embarrassingly difficult for them.

I hear what you're saying but i really don't think they'll give a fig about youth policy if you've won the NRC and the GF two years on the trot, especially if the usual suspects have wooden spooned SL for two years also.

That isn't going to be done by any team in this league so it's hardly going to be a main concern. What would set us apart, and does, is youth development. With the expansion to a 14 club SL, I reckon it will be a major issue come 2011.

I could be wrong, but the RFL has made an awful lot about licences being brought in to help youth development. If not, why bother?

They made a lot of stadium development too but you'll see that quietly buried as we enter 2011 and no-one laid a brick.

So you're saying they're nothing but a corrupt old men in Grey suits putting in who they bloody well feel like?





Yep, I agree.