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JasonE

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Are raving about 16 yo backrower John Bateman after starring in the trial game v Halifax, interesting to note that Matthew Gidley last week identified Bateman as a player that NRL clubs should target. Leeds' Stevie Ward is another for fans to get excited about.
 
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WireMan

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To be fair there seems to be a lot of 16 year olds to rave about. The task is getting them into Super League. This is where Franchises will help as the Bulls can risk him earlier in his career because the threat of relegation has been lifted. That is true of all clubs so hopefully we can get less old Aussies at clubs and more youngsters in the future. After all with the player drain to a NRL comp that is struggling to get good players of there own we may need them.

Bulls had a few youngsters a bit older than him, but Wire took Helliwell, someone else good left (don't know his name sorry. went to a diff Yorkshire team) and G Burgess has gone to the Rabbits. Will be interesting to see whether this guy makes it big at Bulls or somewhere else as Bulls are struggling at the moment finance wise. They need a stadium asap. Especially as Salford, Saints, and poss Cas will have new stadiums soon. The next round of Franchises will be looking at Bradford and Hull KR i reckon. The whole Harris/Leeds affair didn't help either.
 

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