Dave Scott was looking in great form before he came off injured.

Think before you post.

Are you living in a dream world. If we have members of the squad who are at College and couldn't get 19 days off for a paid trip to travel to Australia for 19 days then I'd question their commitment to being a proffesional RL player.

Well done to KR for doing this. A lot of people (myself included) have criticised them in particular for signing so many cr*p obverseas players - this tour shows a real commitment to junior development.

What he said

....and even better, IIRC, they collected money for entry to Mason first training session last year as a way of helping to fund this....every cloud and all that

Sorry, dont agree with that. Since super league the quality of our overseas players has been very good, and without them we would,nt be were we are now. Our youth policy was non existant at the time due to the lure of super league from our noisy neighbours, and we needed quality to get us on our way. would hardly call Vella,dobson,green,newton,webster,galea,clinton cr*p.

What would you call Bauer, Crossman, Dyer, Gannon & Lennon?

It's easy to be selective when making a point. Our youth policy was appalling until the last 3 years.

Tangata toa, michael smith...Dave "the carthorse"hoskins, James goulding, bob smithies,greg austin the list is endless and they all fall into a select category, and i agree with your selection but our good still outweighs the bad.

I bet the youngsters are having the time of their lives on this trip. By all accounts they have access to great training facilities and are getting top coaching whilst they are out there. Lets hope the experience improves all of their games.
A lot of people at Rovers put a massive amount of work into making this happen. Lets hope the rewards are there for all to see over the coming months and years.
I'm sure Rovers arnt the first to do this though. Havnt Saints embarked on a tour like this before? We are certainly following a great example if they have.

What matters now is that our youth is starting to come through.

Welham
Taylor
Cox

Just to name 3 that I hope will be appearing in a Rovers shirt for years to come.

Yeah Saints have done it two or three times, most recently a few months ago. If I remember rightly the likes of Jonny Lomax and Tommy Makinson were on the first tour.

Your rovers fans should keep an eye out for a young player called Moran who is now down at rovers academy. He is only 15 and plays for Hull Wyke in the Yorkshire U16's Combination League. Plays against older kids week in week out and he is on fire and is looking the part. He is an FC fan but chose to go to KR for his further development.

Best ten sheets I've ever spent to watch someone take a dump, well, apart from that time in Phuket...

well done HKR a great initiative, you deserve respect for this.

One of the centres on the current Aussie tour is 18yo Jacob Blades, he was at Hull FC last season but moved to Rovers for the same reason.

Finished 52-8 to wests, no goal kicks in the match, Wests looked a more physically developed side, number 8 and number 10 for Wests were very impressive constantly punching holes in the Hull KR defense, 3 or 4 Hull players went off injured as result of trying to tackle the bigger players. There were a few good tries scored by Wests.

Finished 52-8 to wests, no goal kicks in the match, Wests looked a more physically developed side, number 8 and number 10 for Wests were very impressive constantly punching holes in the Hull KR defense, 3 or 4 Hull players went off injured as result of trying to tackle the bigger players. There were a few good tries scored by Wests.

just been informed we only had 15 fit players and they had 27 - so I think they did good!

From my understanding they played the Wests Tigers U20's squad. So might explain the size difference

Awful selective memory. If you recall, Dyer was a very good signing for us. Our top try scorer in that first super league season.

Might be a typo he may have meant the others were dire

Whilst Taylor in particular has the potential to be special , Welham is 25 next month mate , hardly "youth", would you describe Greg Inglis or Ryan Atkins (both 24/25) as "youth"...and as his next contract is likely to be his "peak" contract it will be interesting what transpires in the "years to come".....

With regards the trip , an absolutely marvellous initiative from Rovers regardless of results , the more young players exposed to the NRL way of things the better for the game in this country...it should be an RFL perogative that an elite group at 16-18 should spend a year over there every year..

If any under 18's SL sides fancy it I am sure Perth would love to host a game or two playing our WA Reds SG ball side. We hosted the BARLA GB Lions for a few weeks and they had a ball.

My point being that Welham came through our youth setup. Although he's now established it doesn't take away from where he came from.