Agree here with Bradford and same as Huddersfield. Both are not Rugby areas and simply do not have enough juniors playing the game in the area and often the youngsters are not good quality players. A couple maybe are OK but most youngsters from Huddersfield and Bradford are not good enough for a Pro Club and there is no strengthg in depth. When you look at Halifax you have Siddal, Greetland, Halifax Irish, Ovenden, Illingworth, KX Park, Elland that have good Youth Set Ups and have a good record of players going pro whether at SL or lower League like the Fairbanks, Fielden, Robinson, Haley, Brocklehurst, Hobson, Kavanagh, Greenwood (Lee), Marnes, Hoyle, Boults, Bowman Brothers etc. Halifax is a goldmine that is similar to Hull, Wigan, Wakey, Leeds areas at producing talent for the Pro game.



Bradford does do development work in the city but obviously not enough as there has not been much increase in the numbers playing the game. How many Bradfordians have visited Odslum in the past 10 years? I doubt more than 12,000 in a city of 250,000 (Not including Keighley, Ilkley etc) Why not?

Lollipops... lollipops...

Given some of the ins and outs McBanana has overseen, he wouldn't know a decent player if they slapped him in the face with a trout

Surely that is what most businesses do. Halifax would also do the same surely. If our scouts (i presume we have them) went to a game and saw a promising youngster would they first find out if he came from the Halifax area before making an approach, and if they came from Queensbury would they shy away from making any approach because he comes from the Bradford area? I think not....

At scholarship level you are only, in theory, allowed so many "out of towners". The Bulls broke the rule in 2008 by hoovering up Halifax lads...and the RFL did sweet nothing about it.

noooooo find that hard to believe