Some of them are huge, some of them aren't. But there is a big difference between a young lad as part of a first team playing the odd game against fully grown men and a team of young lads playing every game, week after week, against fully grown men.

I'd agree with Him, the under 19s teams couldn't go in to the Championships as stand alone teams. Don't forget that there is a leap from under 16s to under 19s now where it used to be u15s then u16s then u18s then u20s. Many of the SL under 19s will have 17 year olds who have no other teams to play in playing in them (those lads can't just go away for two years) and the 20year olds can't play for the youth team anymore. Rather than a team of 19 and 20 year olds it would be 17 & 18 year olds mainly and they would get battered by many of the ex-SL veterans now in the Championships. An old style reserve team with about 5 older players in could maybe compete well enough to allow the youngsters to develop but not youth teams.

Yeah but the Burgesses of this world don't need to play in the kiddie league. The late developers do.

You might get 2 or 3 players who can hold there own, but in most cases as a team the consistency of impact from fully grown men would be a damaging one. The younger player no matter how big and strong would have to taken out of the firing line now and again with a few exceptions like Burgess of course.

I think the championship should become a true feeder league but not in respect of simply being a junior partner to SL clubs, but as an independent competition given the responsibility for producing and developing the best Rugby League players we as a game can develop.



I think this will better prepare our young players to step up to SL, i think it would promote a competition to produce the best young players, and i think it would keep some independence for the championships clubs, and give them a clear and valuable position in the game.

Funded by?

The championship clubs themselves.



And dependent on what they were will to actually do, and what format that structure took, the RFL and SL clubs making a contribution.

So bend over and take it basically, nobody will be watching it

Nobody would be watching the championships if the best young players were playing in them?

What crowds do the SL u 20 s get? , and how much do they charge for entrance?



It matters not, the process is already in half way through



They have created a ' death league ' with Championship 1 , all bar 4/5 clubs have no choice but to ' twin ' to attempt to avoid dropping into it, so they will agree to anything ' spun ' in front of them



2 years ago on here people were posting that the DR system was OK as long as it was only 2/3 per club, but would not be happy with anything more, and those same people are now happy to see whole squads DR



Next we will see SL clubs loaning Championship clubs complete junior squads to use as their 1 st team along with 5 DRplayers



Then the process will be complete, the end of PT RL as we know it

But it wouldnt be an U20's league so it would be irrelevent. There wouldnt be any point having the championships as an u20 league, it wouldnt change anything.

Make your mind up, you said the Championship becoming a junior development comp, that would suggest a large number of junior players playing in it, otherwise its just the Championship by another name



As to my previous questions, the answer to both is ' not a lot '



Which is exactly what you would get with a new set up, so very little funding from the clubs, not saving much are we?