With SL clubs now registering entire squads as DR with their ' twins ' , is the Championship at the begining of finally becoming feeder clubs as the NRL clubs have ?



Will we see the SL clubs eventually loaning out their entire junior squads to their ' twins ' resulting in essentially pure feeder clubs in the tiers below SL?

Its looking like it at the moment, wonder if it would be controlled by quota.

i think it began 3 or 4 years ago when clubs like leigh started to use DC players from anywhere and the goings on in this off season have just moved it on massively.



At some point soon, i would say,any players from warrington,wigan,hull,leeds etc will be able to turn out for the feeder/devolopement club,be it to help them back to match fitness if they are established players, or to help the devolopment of younger players.

I hope so. Apart from Fax theres not much going on down there potential-wise.

Many a true word spoken in ' jest '

No jest about it, im serious.

ITS strange if my memory serves me right did not hull and hull kr try to get their A teams in to the league to keep their players fit back in the 80 ts,

maybe this is a better way

Me and you both, however ' jest ' is the only way to deal with the prospect of it

We do seem to be moving to the same situation as they have in Baseball in the US, where the minor league sides are all affiliated to major league teams.

I'd much rather see a system like in European football where Top division's reserve teams are able to play in the same leagues as other Pro/semi pro sides. Wigan & Leeds could probably put out teams in the championship made of kids that would compete very well.

I think they'd lose most games and run the risk of getting injured. A team of 19/20 year olds would get battered by fully grown men.

I disagree. It depends how good they are. Just because they're grown men doesn't need they're bigger or stronger. Possibly not even fitter. Some of these teens are huge. Stars of the future.