The Virtual Terrace • Re: Widnes to close their academy
Donnyman wrote:
Well thanks for the interesting post. The listing of the monies provided by the SKY contract showed £17.8M paid by SKY for the SL clubs "coaching and charitable foundations" so it seems that the money to run academies is paid for by the clubs from their own funds? Thus clubs can choose not to run an academy like Salford choose not to if they don't have the money. AFAIK Superleague has an element of control of the academies in that they appear to be able to veto an academy if they do not see it having any strategic worth.
Strategically SL see academies in London and Newcastle important as they underpin clubs important to widening the footprint of the game, conversely they have knocked on the head the ideas of academies 10 miles down the road to an existing academy, again IIRC.........Not sure they can stop a club opening an academy but if it isn't allowed in the academy league then there is no point as there is nobody to play.
Notwithstanding Hull having two acadenies, then combining and i think splitting again
Keep up, the Hull academies have been separate for two years now. You aren't really Mr Current Affairs are you Sadler.
Statistics: Posted by WestEndThinker — Tue Dec 29, 2020 2:49 am