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Premiership academies set for radical shake-up with NFL-style draft
Exclusive: Under new system, each team would be allowed to keep a certain number of players from each year group of their own academy intake
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Premiership academies set for radical shake-up with NFL-style draft
Exclusive: Under new system, each team would be allowed to keep a certain number of players from each year group of their own academy intake
I read the article as saying that a school/club would still sit within a club boundary (although these may be redrawn). So you would still play U18s based purely on that. What's changed though is that you may only be able to pick your best 4 (for example) players to promote to the senior academy at 18. With maybe more positional restrictions. Rather than the 5, 6 or 7 that clubs usually take on. The players below those ringfenced by the club would be drafted essentially. Perhaps in addition to those in non club affiliated RFU academies. For example the Quins or Northampton player that's 5th in their pecking order may be significantly better than the 5th best Bristol U18 etc.Puja wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:36 am I opened the article, expecting to be enraged, but upon reading it's nothing like an NFL draft whatsoever and any suggestion that it might be comes solely from the fevered imagination of the writer, keen for clicks.
The actual detail seems sensible - rather than there being hard-and-fast boundaries, whereby anyone in a particular school *has* to go to this club, clubs would be able to nominate some and then others would be distributed to other local teams, depending on what's best for their development. So if the schools in Gloucester's catchment produced two outstanding 10s in the same year group, one of them could be moved to Bristol instead, rather than them blocking each others' progress.
Generally in favour of everything there except for the journalism.
Puja
I suppose it’s not too dissimilar to someone leaving school after A levels and heading off to uni. It’ll be interesting to see how much say the players have on their destination.Margin_Walker wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:59 amI read the article as saying that a school/club would still sit within a club boundary (although these may be redrawn). So you would still play U18s based purely on that. What's changed though is that you may only be able to pick your best 4 (for example) players to promote to the senior academy at 18. With maybe more positional restrictions. Rather than the 5, 6 or 7 that clubs usually take on. The players below those ringfenced by the club would be drafted essentially. Perhaps in addition to those in non club affiliated RFU academies. For example the Quins or Northampton player that's 5th in their pecking order may be significantly better than the 5th best Bristol U18 etc.Puja wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:36 am I opened the article, expecting to be enraged, but upon reading it's nothing like an NFL draft whatsoever and any suggestion that it might be comes solely from the fevered imagination of the writer, keen for clicks.
The actual detail seems sensible - rather than there being hard-and-fast boundaries, whereby anyone in a particular school *has* to go to this club, clubs would be able to nominate some and then others would be distributed to other local teams, depending on what's best for their development. So if the schools in Gloucester's catchment produced two outstanding 10s in the same year group, one of them could be moved to Bristol instead, rather than them blocking each others' progress.
Generally in favour of everything there except for the journalism.
Puja
May have read it wrong though.