Not so much financial more to do with quality but that usually comes down to finance.

Never grasped why if academies are about producing more players, why the rfl punish clubs by taking funding away which only impacts on young players

You would expect so but it doesn't

Equally Catalans got a top grading before they'd played a game and it won't change for 4 year's.

Is this different to the annual accreditation?

Quote ="TheButcher"If true, it's a massive mistake. The academy should have been a priority years ago, before MK came around. We'd be producing decent talent every year and it would be paying for itself. Instead, we never bothered. Impressive that we have managed to produce so many decent youngsters tbh. Imagine what we would be producing if we'd have got this right ten years ago? MK should have sorted this as his first project instead of buying-in expensive bell-ends. To scrap it now is madness, and leaves us off worse financially in the long run. You don't produce youngsters you don't get the SC discounts. Current operational rules say you need a percentage of home grown youngsters in your squad, and we'll be left buying-in expensive signings or forking-out for other clubs youngsters. Makes no ">sense.'" Perhaps is going to run a reserve/A team

Quote ="TheButcher"If true, it's a massive mistake. The academy should have been a priority years ago, before MK came around. We'd be producing decent talent every year and it would be paying for itself. Instead, we never bothered. Impressive that we have managed to produce so many decent youngsters tbh. Imagine what we would be producing if we'd have got this right ten years ago? MK should have sorted this as his first project instead of buying-in expensive bell-ends. To scrap it now is madness, and leaves us off worse financially in the long run. You don't produce youngsters you don't get the SC discounts. Current operational rules say you need a percentage of home grown youngsters in your squad, and we'll be left buying-in expensive signings or forking-out for other clubs youngsters. Makes no ">sense.'" Perhaps is going to run a reserve/A team

Who knows?



We'll have to wait and see.