Mr Plow

Clearly testing the waters for it to be fully rolled out in the NRL sometime in the future

That’s not bad for Leeds’ social media tbf

Not before another independent review

I don’t mind something different or ‘untraditional’ but I think there attempts have been a bit poor. That said they must sell well becasue they keep doing them

Most stuff oxen have made for Leeds has been pretty meh compared to other clubs imo. ISC were a lot better

There might be. I guess it all comes down to how much people want it. If no one’s interested in playing in winter then they’ll knock it on the head. To me it makes sense for Wheelchair to be played through the winter months

I guess there’s a few union lads who play league through the summer, teams like Harrogate and York have lots of union players. League players just don’t seem interested in winter rugby, it’s been on the slide since covid

Heard on the grapevine there’ll be no winter offer next year. 6 games in the Pennine League this weekend and only one went ahead. RFL won’t be supporting it next season

Same could be said for Fryston and Kippax. King Cross Park have a second team but no juniors.

Dudley Hill have announced they’ve been invited to rejoin the NCL in the Yorkshire Conference (looks like they’ve dropped Siddal Academy). Seems to be posts from some clubs confirming this new structure is definitely happening

I work a physical job and I know lads who have packed in playing football and rugby because companies have said they don’t want to employ them in case they get injured and can’t work

I’ve only ever been involved during the summer but there are 6 games a week in the Pennine League this season and I’d say on average so far about half of them get called off. I don’t think switching back to winter would change much, I know you get the drop off during school summer holidays (junior rugby takes a break in august anyway) but if people preferred to play in winter then surely there’d be more teams playing in Pennine League and BARLA winter cup comps. Someone I work with was telling me about how many football leagues there were in Castleford back in the 80s and now it’s all part of the Wakefield League so it’s not just a rugby league issue. It’s a societal one, there’s no pub or work teams anymore, people have more options of things to do, young people don’t play sport as much, the list could go on.

Unless Woodhouse are entering a team in YML this year? I think Brighouse were the last Pennine League team to qualify for the Cup but they have a summer team too

From what I’ve read clubs/ the league have an issue with how fast this is happening (it would make sense to announce this now and implement from 2027), some Cumbrian (barrow) clubs want to play in the North West league and some clubs out in the conference want to play in a ‘National’ division

I’m sure there’s lads at Woodhouse who play summer rugby. What will happen if they progress in the cup? Surely they won’t be allowed to play for Woodhouse and a summer club?