Quote Originally Posted by howdydoo View Post
Heard today that around 9/10 young lads from Rotherham have been offered scholarships next season at the two Sheffield Clubs.

That’s half of the intake for both clubs combined per season.

Couldn’t believe it.

What’s that all about???

Surely not true.
Howdy I can honestly say that’s bull I used to volunteer for the club and part of it was phoning up different schools and I can honestly say there’s absolutely bloody hundreds of schools in the contacts (Swinton comp wasn’t in I checked) I asked once why schools I thought should be in wasn’t I ether got “we haven’t talked to them yet” (Bare in mind this was the year Evans left and academy was still a working progress) or I got “ that’s out of our clubs agreed area (no idea what they meant but I think there’s something preventing them from jumping to a new club