Refused. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/58 ... icensing--

Refused. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/58 ... icensing--

Quote ="atomic"Refused. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/58 ... icensing--'" Must have been a big ask for us to get a gig in that, must be way behind others over recent years - although I must admit I don’t know what the full criteria is Bradford a bigger shock by far in missing out with their record

Quote ="atomic"Refused. https://www.rugby-league.com/article/58 ... icensing--'" Must have been a big ask for us to get a gig in that, must be way behind others over recent years - although I must admit I don’t know what the full criteria is Bradford a bigger shock by far in missing out with their record

Explanation has been sent to unsuccessful clubs. Possibly all clubs should compare notes..

So we were considered suitable and financial sound for SL just a few months ago,
BUT
not to run an academy, for the better future of local youth, the club and the game in general, a few months later.
What am I missing here !?!

An aweful lot I would think from those comments, only so many places available and better opportunities than us missed out

Not only us Hull Kr Salford and Cas I believe didn’t get one but Newcastle and London did

12 places available and only 10 awarded.
And who is to say that “better opportunities” (I presume you mean proposals, than ours missed out ?)
I’ll say again, our club wanted to provided an academy for our local youth, and a women’s and girls pathway. Why deny that ?
How does that better the game ?
I would be happy for you to tell me what I’m missing, and I mean that sincerely, because I just don’t get it.

I would imagne there is only so much money in the pot to provide to elite academies, the board reviewing the applications viewed only 10 viable - location wise itself we are not in a good place with so many surrounding teams already having well set up and proven structures, plus, and I’m not sure if theTS counts be we haven’t really had and academy for many years - I wouldn’t think a lot going in our favour, the likes of Bradford, Cas and HKR seem a far more viable option.

And I’m not sure that we can’t have an academy it’s just the the RFL (or whoever) haven’t given us the funds towards it - so we pay for it ourselves

reads like we play in the colleges league and in winter which i guess is why we have lads from miners/east/westhoughton signed for the pies academy real good sense for the pies anyroad

Don't get the resentment of either London or Newcastle.
What they do out in the community is unbelievable.
Even Coventry are doing more than some of the so called bigger clubs.

If there was only enough money in the pot for 10 teams, why say they will grant a max of 12 licences?
I think we are in an equally good (or bad) location as Bradford, Cas and HKR with regards to surrounding teams. They have opposing large team relatively close (or closer for HKR).
If having a previous/current academy is a necessity then that should be a stated criteria. That would basically mean that no new academy can ever be granted.
I am also not saying that Leigh deserve it more than any other club, I simply don’t understand why a proposal from a club that were just granted entry to SL, that contained a youth pathway component as part of its proposal, is then denied the ability to provide an elite level for local youth.
I really feel for the kids who suddenly find themselves without a club at Cas etc. How the hell is that good for the future of the game ?
Some of those kids will be lost to the game, or displace players at amateurs clubs who will then give up and be lost.

We never made the first two elements in the criteria.
The fourth is open to debate.