Well laszlo the rfl brought a new system into the 18's this season,god knws why,but their new system is something like: they play a block of 8 games (which wev'e just cmpleted,6 wins 2 losses

)....then they have a 5/6 week break..then the 2nd block of games kicks in ,fixtures dependant on how teams have done in the 1st set of games apparently.

Now i really hope the break does us good(aids injuries/knocks etc ..)...before the 2nd set of games kicks in....what i wouldn't like to see is the momentum we have built up atm knocked sideways by the break

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On the other hand i can see quite a few of these 18's still playing through this so called break by stepping up to the 20's or mebe even the 1st team squad

...all in all its all good for the club .

Affirmative. Don't be disexhonerating the coachical abilitations of Paul Cullen!

To be fair to Hull KR they missed Kristian Bell badly who is a great talent and away with England academy at the moment.



They where demolished on the day though.



How none of our 18's made that squad is hard to take. Seems to be the same old story though at those levels.

I believe that may be the 3, as you are aware we weren't allowed to run an 18's but have plenty of that age group in our reserves who are doing well.

Who said you couldn't run an u18's?



If I remember correctly you were stopped from running an u18's back in 2007 because the RFL were not happy about things during the 2006 season. Then when you were allowed to you chose not to because the RFL said if you want to run an u18's then you have to run an u21's 1st. To get around this you wanted to run a joint u21's with Wigan. This would have minimal financial outlay for the u21's thus allowing you put your resources into the u18's. When the RFL quite rightly said no to the Wigan scheme Leigh knew full well that they wouldn't be able to afford to run both an u21 and u18's and with the RFL saying the u21's come 1st, you didn't really have much choice. No-one has actually stopped you from running an u18's though have they? Its more of a case of the fact you can't afford to run 2 academy teams. I bet if Leigh had it their way they would drop their u21 and just run an u18's instead.

As were our 18's...