Seems we're heading down the path to having quasi-feeder/farm teams. I know we have a link-up with Workington, but the logistics of that might be an issue and from what I've seen of the rules Cumbria counts as non-heartlands

, so we could form another partnership.

Nicked from the VT, so far we have:


St Helens - Doncaster and Whitehaven
Warrington - Swinton
Bradford - Dewsbury
Wigan - Leigh
Leeds - Hunslet

Plus Hull-York, I believe. And Wigan are, in addition, involved with the Welsh RL.

At the risk of inviting some really gormless trolling, has anybody heard anything about Rovers' plans?

Sheffield would be convenient, but are probably too big a club to want to surrender any independence.

Wigan and Leigh? Can't see the Leythers beign too chuffed about that.

How about Hunslet, their grounds like a big wind tunnel so it would be practice for CP and they have nice shirts. Myrtle and flame, cool colours them.

Wouldn't have though Sheffield are that big and realistically I think it would needto be a Championship team for the standard. Maybe Oldham, they can lodge at Secret Hill Top lair, very reasonable rates and five star facilities. They do not get control of the telly box though.

Good post that, stupid and serious at the same time.

Ha!

I need to clarify that in that previous post I was looking at the wrong divisions, so, even the serious bits were stupid.

Some things never change

I thought we were hooking up with Batley?

No lies there squire.

Workington?

Goodness gracious, Quasi-feeder/farm teams?

Resemblis upus ownis arsis?

Just when I thought you had something to say.

Workington seemed to work well with Peterson. Didn't Green also go there early on in the season but end up at Batley?

it was announced about this time last year we were hooking up with Workington, this came about after forming a frienship after we let them have all the gate receipts from a CC game there a few years ago, 3 players went there Peterson, Green and Johnson, Green went to Batley as Sandercock wanted him to play at a higher level for his development.

Saints main link-up is with Rochdale rather than Doncaster, according to Skytext - which makes more sense.
Saints U-20 this year will be Rochdale's head coach next year.
Could Doncaster be an option for us?

My Grandma and daft racist Uncle Barry were evacuated to Donny during the war.

what had they done to deserve that punishment

Batley would be my choice, if I had one! Not too far away and John Kear would be excellent at bringing on young players.

Lived on Essle Rerd so fully deserved really.

My family went to Batley next to a munitions factory .....soon came back to Newbridge road area

Batley have linked up with Hudds.

Assuming Sheffield, Fev and Fax want to stay fully independent, that only leaves Doncaster and Keighley in Yorkshire, I think.

I was brought up on Tim Taylor's so it's Keighley all the way for me.

Mmmmmmmm.....Landlord...

As good a reason as any to link up.

I can see why some clubs wouldn't want to link up due to them eyeing up a SL place themselves BUT I can see it hurting them on the field.
British players are going to be at more of a premium then ever as the NRL export quality drops off a cliff and there is a genuine flow of players away from SL instead them flowing into SL.
SL clubs are going to be sucking more and more 'decent' British players up from the league below to fill out their squads IMHO.
So any club that has this tie-in will have access to better players as fringe SL players should be better for the reason I have mentioned.
Clubs who decide to go it alone are being very brave but it's understandable why they are doing it.

Did you miss the first post

Wigan/Leigh are not officially twinned. Leigh will however will be getting DC players from Wigan as Wire and Saints are officially twinned with others. Wigan also need somewhere for their older academy players to play since SL clubs have forgotten about young players over 19. So to that end Leigh will allow some Wigan youngsters into their U23s. At the moment Leigh have a first team squad of 23 signed up and up to last Wednesday 18 signed up for the U23s. Also it has been stated Wigan will have no input to whether their players play. So until/if they announce we are officially twinned I will have to say that it seems Wigan need Leigh!!

prefare Golden Best

Workington have paired up with Widnes. We seem to be running out of options.

Doncaster would be most likely, I'd have thought.

I assume we're buying into this, simply because everybody else in SL seems to be.