Several championship sides have been running u23 reserve sides for a couple of years. They would relish the chance to play super league reserve teams

Not sure, said on RH this morning that Rovers have no plans to run a team. Apparently 9 clubs are interested though.

I just doubt we'll find 34 fit players each week so the only option is to take players from the merged academy

I think the idea is that the kids in the merged academy from 16 upwards are ring fenced to the two parent Clubs and as I understand it the under 23's will get precedent and they will make up the numbers in there and the merged under 19's team will draw on younger players within the academy if they are short. well that's what I think anyway?

Maybe. I guess the benefit of us having 23s and Rovers not is that players 19 and over would come to us as default?

I still think the rugby league should fund a proper reserve grade.