Barley Mow

Bramley became effectively Leeds' unofficial reserves and were playing at Headingley before folding. There was talk of a more formal joint arrangement but if memory serves the RFL weren't keen on that.

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I suspected it was a 1st September cut off. As you say it's pretty standard here. Based on what @NRLandSL says, it's different here to Australia - which is why it needed clarifying.

It could be based on the academic year, so those born September 2006 onwards would be U18s

This should be on the cross-code forum.

I'm not familiar with a lot of current academy players; which Rovers player(s) do you think deserved to be selected?

As someone who supported a club which folded and wasn't resurrected, I can't understand this "Super League or nothing" attitude that some Salford fans seem to have adopted. They'll miss it if it goes, but being in the Championship or League 1 would mean still having a club.

The academy Roses matches will be at Castleford on Saturday 10th May and Craven Park (Hull) on Saturday 2nd August - to be streamed on the RFL's Youtube channel. The squads have been announced today: Yorkshire: Alfie Lindsay, Alfie Salmon (both Castleford), Lloyd Kemp, Callum Kemp, Rio Kassim (Hull FC), Joe Butterfield, Jacob Hardy, Harley Thomas, Marcus Qareqare, George Brown, Joe Diskin, Presley Cassell, Zak Lloyd, Daniel Stelfox, Harry Smith, Jacob Stead (all Leeds), Chris Matagi (St Helens), Ellis Lingard, Robbie Brook, Rowan Stephenson (all Wakefield) Lancashire: Cameron Bate (Bradford), Fin Walker (Salford), Matt Evans, Oliver Garmston, Billy Keeley, Thomas Humphreys, Alfie Tate, Kian McGann, Oscar Knox, Joel Kilgannon (all St Helens), Jake Ramsden, Flynn Holden, Charlie Walker, Lachlan Webster, Ewan Irwin, Kian Stanton, Daniel Regan, Daniel Coop (all Warrington), Shea O’Connor, Austin Daniel, Finlay Yeomans (all Wigan) https://www.rugby-league.com/article/63702/academy-origin-squads-selected

That would have a chance of working in their Australian market, where RL is culturally intrenched as the largest winter sport for half the population, but in the UK/global market they would only be selling to the ex-pats and diehards. The curious newcomers wouldn't get the chance to become curious. We often celebrate RL being on FTA television because it allows newcomers to see matches. Sky are the next best thing for that, because they have the largest audience of any subscription sports service in the country. Not being on either of those mediums means RL will be further from the public consciousness. A streaming service only serves those who search it out and subscribe, and without games on FTA or Sky the audience won't grow because people won't accidentally come across RL and think it is worthwhile watching. You and I don't randomly subscribe to streaming services for sports we don't follow because we are curious. Likewise people won't do that for RL if it is hidden away on a bespoke streaming service - it certainly isn't a way to grow the audience here.

Thanks. I've heard 'licence' used as shorthand for RFL membership or for a place in SL before. I wasn't sure what was being referred to.

What is this licence people are discussing?

That's my understanding. And fixtures are every other week, alternating with academy matches (with there being a lot of crossover in players between the two competitions).

This week's answers were all in by Friday evening and the answer to every question was no. Your winner with 4 out of 5 correct is @JonM who was also 2nd place in the tie breaker - the answer to which was 65,305. Well done JonM and over to you for next week.

I think it's because it will be a double header with a women's CC semi-final. We don't even know who all the quarter-finalists are for that yet, but I assume they will have held some tickets back for any fans of those clubs who want to be there.