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Subject: The poinyt being... Author: BillesleyNomad [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: "Mon, May 23 2011, 9:51:44 GMT" In reply to: red nose 's message, "Well said BN" on "Mon, May 23 2011, 0:55:16 GMT" That those facilites are RFU funded. The RFU want to see young England qualified players training and playing in a professional environment. Their solution; fund academies at Prem clubs who can then lend (DR) the lads to clubs in the Championship. How much competative rugby does your lad get for Wuss? Why not put the support in place to fund the training/development of players at the level where they can play competative rugby. John Steele is always on about how there are no "hand-outs" from the RFU; everything he tells us is based on getting a return for English rugby. Just a shame that he, along with the rest of the RFU, forgets that English rugby is a lot more than team England and the Premiership and that there are lots if clubs outside of the AP who are perhaps more deserving of RFU "investment" than some within. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: The argument about academies.... Author: Red&Black Pear [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: "Mon, May 23 2011, 10:02:09 GMT" ....is not that they don't provide excellent facilities and professional coaches which they obvisouly do but that they draw young players away who do not get meaningful playing time because the "A" league is a farce (only taken seriosuly by clubs if they get anywhere near the final) and then have to be loaned out to other clubs to "develop" their skills. If the Academies were so good then there would be a proper academy comepetion, as there is in Rugby League, and players would not be being "loaned" out but would get all their skills and game coaching at the Academy rather than just being tunred into identikit gym monkeys. And why shoudl the academies just be at Premiership Clubs? If the RFU actyually cared about anythign other than The Cartel they would see that some clubs outside it have a fantastic record of producing and developing talent. Nothing against your lad Red Nose or Worcester per se but the whole Acadamy system was skewed right from the start and should be either revisited or scapped competely. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: rfu funding Author: jonnoisgod [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: "Mon, May 23 2011, 17:37:59 GMT" I know of two lads who are / have been with a Prem academy , one is on the verge of being released after wasting two years of his parents cash on his accomadation , expenses etc , which annoys me when you see the amount of money swilling around in the RFU and lads have to pay themselves , the other is about to go to the same club and as his parents had not got the money to send him hes had to raise it from sponsers , which to be honest , is disgracefull ! . The first lad was told , in his first year to eat as much as possible and to do mainly gym work , as such he put on 3st , as someone said , all academy lads are is gym monkeys , I wonder if you are brought over from Samoa with very little cash , do the club help you out ? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]