Warrington and Hull are said to have abandoned their reserve teams ahead of the new season.

With no organised reserve system in place, a handful of Super League clubs have operated with reserve teams off their own backs in recent seasons, playing glorified friendly games.


It leaves just Wigan, St Helens, Wakefield, Keighley, Leigh and Halifax in running second strings, to bridge the gap between the first team and under 19s set ups.

They will already know the restructuring/licensing for 2019. We will have to wait.

Saints have also scrapped the reserves.

i was under the impression that we were running a youth this year

just read on twitter
Bradford now running a reserve team this season... And the academy is up and running...play saints on wed..2pm ko

Good news,is the investment coming from Toronto by any chance?

I think it's a joint effort atomic. A bit like HKR and Saints.

We want to get rid of our reserves can’t even get 13 men to play it’s turning into a farce all this

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Reserves havent played a game yet ! Do you think the poster is getting mixed up with the academy ?

the lads are really struggling with injuries at the minute

If we can’t get 17 lads from leigh to play for the academy it’s a bad day in my opinion when I was playing we had kids willing to wear the jersey

All the lads are willing to wear the jersey , however the academy is linked with the college.

It is a cat 3 academy.So this is the first step into creating a stand alone academy.

No pleasing some folk,they moan when we don't have an academy,then moan when they get one going.