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Paul10 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 Mar 2023 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 693 |
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2023/10/24/premiership-academies-set-radical-shake-up-nfl-style-draft/
Sorry. Don't have time to copy this over. Hilarious news from the premiership...
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tigerburnie ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 10 Jun 2012 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 3735 |
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Paul10 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 Mar 2023 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 693 |
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As much as i could copy is below
Premiership academies are set for a radical shake-up with the introduction of an NFL-style draft system as part of the new Professional Game Agreement, Telegraph Sport can reveal. Improving the development of talent has been seen as a key priority by both the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby with a collective recognition that young English players are not getting enough game time. During their Under-20 Six Nations match this year, France’s squad had made 102 starts in the Top 14 versus England’s eight starts in the Premiership. England Under-20s lost the match 42-7. With the Premiership losing three teams to insolvency over the past 12 months, there will be a significant redrawing of the academy boundaries as well as the introduction of a draft-style system to ensure a more equitable distribution of the best young players around the 10 teams and in future to clubs in the proposed second tier Premiership 2.
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ChrisB ![]() Academy player ![]() Joined: 12 Jan 2015 Location: Jersey Status: Offline Points: 16 |
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Bye bye Championship clubs!
Window dressing at its worst - redistribute the same players among the Prem clubs academies with the exact same lack of competitive game time. How does this work? Prem 2 = 10 feeder franchises for the Prem. Sorry to be so gloomy but persuade me that I am wrong.
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Paul10 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 Mar 2023 Location: Milton Keynes Status: Offline Points: 693 |
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I suspect it has as much to do with the number of public schools in what was London Irish's "catchment"
Those schools are still going strong.
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Mark W-J ![]() Coaching staff ![]() ![]() Joined: 22 May 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3662 |
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My son's school has a link-up with the London Irish ACE system, which is basically for the next level of players down from the full U17/18 academy - although there are a handful of boys in both set-ups for reasons which I don't quite understand. It's now been rebranded London & South Central and is effectively run by the RFU, but whereas 10 (and counting...) academies have a formal link to the remaining Premiership clubs, they have no direct feed into a Premiership Academy contract when they reach 18. As a result, some of them have been requesting transfers to other ACE set-ups (mainly Quins, some Saracens).
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