Luke Keary looking at a rugby? return on the basis of his Australian schoolboys past has come alongside the emergence of the Super 20s program as a rival to league's National Youth Competition.
The NYC is facing an uncertain future and union believe they're now in the fight for the best teenage talent, who until recently mostly went to league.
Many of Australia's best schoolboy union stars in recent years have signed with league clubs while still at school. New Zealand too.
For many, they're of a generation that have grown up playing both league and union and choose the code that will give them the best shot a career.
