Bullseye:
Our juniors haven't exactly been ripping up trees in the academy or reserves have they? But on the whole I agree, if they're not being picked vs Hunslet then we're not going to play them. No Armitage I see so expect Hooley on the wing.
I was thinking maybe someone who's too old for the academy who's ahead in their development. Someone like Bateman, Gill. Rayner did well in pre-season. I wouldn't put more than one or two in. History shows that giving a young player a chance, they quite often take it and end up becoming an important player in the team. From Myers last season, to the likes of Ethan Ryan.
I am feeling deflated at the moment. We'll comfortably beat Hunslet as they're not very good. Okunbor will score a hat trick and make metres for fun (which to be fair he's done all year) but then come up with another costly howler against better opposition. And then we've no one to turn to to drop him as we've not blooded any young player and we're no going to do it against a Widnes/Doncaster are we.
Our only option is the coaching sort out the same short comings of the current squad, which they've not done yet despite plenty of opportunities to and if that doesn't work, our only option is to turn to desperate two week loans.