under 19s last night

[gateman]

a young and injury ravaged squad were well beaten last night by Widnes who bad at least two players in their team with super league experience we thought we were down to the bear bones when O Neill was announced at stand off, one of the subs who came on tried every thing wearing a scull cap the lad is only small in stature and looked that he was out of the 16s but in a couple of years time could turn into a very good player, one notable absentee last night was Callum Turner I know he was not in out 19 man squad for Saturday is the lad injured or on stand bye ??

[old cas lass]

Turner was named on the team sheet, so no idea why he was left out.

[Tigerwood posse]

What the hell has happened to our Under 19's, we are shocking right now, abysmal!! ... we were in the Grand Final last season!! .. Yes i know we lost the guy to Warrington and he took a couple of Lads with him etc etc, but Warrington arent breaking any pots at this Under 19's Level either, we are a massive rugby league area and lucky in that respect compared to other clubs, surely there must be some talent about that we can bring in to bolster the ranks, if we have no prospects coming through it really is a black mark against the club because we should be strong in this area, going to end up bottom of the table at this rate, where is the next win coming from!!

[tigerfeat]

Peter riding not staying at the club during the winter might have something to do with it ...

[gateman]

last year we had four internationals in our under 19s Trueman and Turner still with us, Johnston went to Warrington and Mc Lelland to the kick and clap, last night to look at the lads playing I thought they looked very young I think the under 19s what should have been playing are at this moment in time plagued with injuries

[caslad69]

In reply to you tigerwood, for your information the bloke who left cas to go to wire is Pete Riding and the players he took with him are only 1 player to my knowledge was Louis Johnson who the club sold for a big profit before Pete Riding had even left our club.Other player missing is Callum maclleland who the club decided to sell. It’s very easy to point fingers to individuals when sometimes you have to look at the clubs ethos of promoting young players. In my opinion cas as a club is not the place to be for young promising players as they don’t seem to get a chance.

[Tigerwood posse]

Thanks for all your answers, it sounds like we've got real problems.

[gateman]

last night Widnes had age on their side at this level it counts, we had two many younger guys in the team and it showed, plus Widnes had at least two lads who have played super league Danny walker hooker that's been seen on TV a few times he was in the team that nearly turned over our first team at home last season, heads up lads you have won a few games this season I am sure there will be more to follow

[steadygetyerboots-on]

What the hell has happened to our Under 19's, we are shocking right now, abysmal!! ... we were in the Grand Final last season!! .. Yes i know we lost the guy to Warrington and he took a couple of Lads with him etc etc, but Warrington arent breaking any pots at this Under 19's Level either, we are a massive rugby league area and lucky in that respect compared to other clubs, surely there must be some talent about that we can bring in to bolster the ranks, if we have no prospects coming through it really is a black mark against the club because we should be strong in this area, going to end up bottom of the table at this rate, where is the next win coming from!!

As nice as it may be for young lads to win matches at U19 level, the overall aim has to be producing SL players. I don’t know if any of them will go on to forge successful careers, we can only watch, guess & wait to see.
Take a look at the wakefield academy who won the competition from a couple of years ago & see how many of those lads are playing regular first team SL rugby now to see what I mean.
From memory I don’t think the likes of Daz Clark, Joe Westerman, Oli Holmes, Adz Milner, Massey etc, won anything at U19 level.