Quote ="Pablo-13"Not really, there has been primary schools rugby league for closing on two decades. The number of schools competing has varied but it can be 10 or more including a few village school teams from surrounding district.
I think the RFU have had a development officer around in the last couple of years doing some stuff but before that there was no RU primary school activity going on while the RL was.
The secondary schools and colleges have been nominally union during this time. I think there has been a bit of RL at one of them though in the last few years due to a rugby league teacher and the Champion Schools comp.'"
Spot on.
I lived there for ages 10 to 20. Played lots of RL while at primary school, lots of tournaments etc, then as soon as I got to secondary school it was all union. I know of one high school that now plays league, mainly due to the lads from one year who played for the Pirates, pestering the PE Dept. It's far from a RU hotbed though.
