Two good wins to start the Reserves season 48 - 0 vs Bradford and 46 - 10 vs Cas, played some good rugby and scored some cracking trys. Plenty of the players still eligible for the Academy aswel. Always interested to see how the younger players are developing physically at the start of a season and we certainly look a big athletic team right across the park with 7 or 8 players somewhere between 6 ft 2 and 6 ft 6.

The Academy season starts this week after a cancellation to the opening round fixture.

Good promising start to Tony Smiths tenure.

The ever impressive Mark Butterill has a good set of players to work with this season, the U16's especially are a great intake, which more or less sweeped up all the best players in the Yorkshire league. Theres other good players in the group but the Names to watch out for imo:

Harry Smith - HB
Pressley Cassell - 13
Harley Thomas - FB/C
Callum Webster - BR/C
Joe Butterfield - Prop
Dylan Hutchinson - HB/FB
Marcus QareQare - FB/W
Jermaine Oladipupo - Prop
Jacob Stead - BR

The U15's intake missed a few players who are heading over to Lancashire, 2 going Saints, 1 warrington and Cas kept a couple in Yorkshire, but still a good intake, led by Zak Lloyd from Siddal, who's the best U15 in Yorkshire, and from what iv seen, in the country imo, big, fast, skillfull, intelligent. He can play anywhere, FB, 6, 13, Centre, SR...And he's excellent in all of them, interested to see where the club play him.

He really does. Does anyone have any opinions on where he'll end up position wise? It's good to see another exciting back prospect coming through anyway

6 would probably be his best position, but would be quality anywhere in backrow or centre aswel.

With the make-up of this years Academy, i could see him playing a lot of centre. If i was going to pick a team to win a game from this years squad, it would be:

1. Hutchinson
2. Webster
3. Hardy
4. Thomas
5. Marcus QQ
6. Brown
7. Smith
8. Butterfield
9. Butterworth
10. Oladipupo
11. Stead
12. Lloyd
13. Cassell

14. Diskin
15. Stelfox
16. Tinkler
17. Whittingham

Hardy, Lloyd, Butterworth, Stelfox, Tinkler all first years

When you add the likes of the McCormack's, Smith, Simpson and Littlewood to the pool of young players outside of the first team it does look promising. We just need to make sure a few of them come through and hopefully become stars. Any view on the potential of JJB's young lads?

Good to see the reserves beat Saints 48 - 0. ECW got a couple. Frawley played too.

Arthur said yesterday Frawley would play in the reserves and needs to up his game.
Injuries come and he needs to be ready to step in or words to that effect.