Salford have rumoured to have scrapped their academy it seems due to cost.

Will Wakefield follow?

No I don't think so. We have 1873 scheme which helps pay for junior development and for a club like us we need to develop our own juniors to feed into the first team

In a word . .

Yeah sure we would, when it can develop players like Johnstone who's just won young player of the year. Im sure we can get by without it

They were forced to play their last game against Wakey last season, it was meant to be at Salford but was re arranged at BV which Wakey won. Sad for the young lads but that's what you get when the clubs in turmoil.

Don't understand the link here?

I thought it was a prerequisite of being in SL? If not, it should be!

I don't even like the Hull model - it reduces the opportunities for young men / players and doesn't help to build the skills within either SL or the Championship clubs who pick up many players from them.

I would rather see them sign less players, and the same goes for us too. There are responsibilities that should come with being in the top 12 in your sport! So pleased we have our set up as strong as it is!

Very poor show from Salford. How the hell can you expect to grow a club if you don't invest in the area? Wakefield have put some investment into youth development and we're reaping the rewards.

This is what you get with a Owner who is only interested in reflected glory and why I hope we neve ever get one like the doc - I mean the fact that he uses the bogus doctor title says it all. All he wants is a trophy then he'll ditch Salford and move on as he almost did this year. So why develop talent when you can buy it in the hope that it works just once.

A ken Davy on the other hand I'd give anything for one of those.

Also in attempting to bring in success the way he is, is only short term.

Agreed. Leigh don't have an academy either and the fact that a top flight club, given the sky money and sponsorship recevied, can't run them is unforgivable. It should be no academy = no superleague. That the governing body allows it to happen is equally as poor.

The should be allowed in SL (because that's how P&R works), but they shouldn't be allowed any of the central funding or Sky money until they have a full functional academy. That will eventually incetivise Championship clubs with aspirations of promotion into creating their own academy so they can hit the ground running with full central funding for their first season, and will force clubs who don't have one into either creating one, or forking out the equivalent finances from their own pocket