It is a production line which has seen Harri O’Connor, Carwyn Tuipulotu, Kemsley Mathias, Jac Price and Morgan Jones all roll off it in recent times and into the Scarlets’ senior team.
Now the west Walians have announced the names of a new intake of players.
There are eight fresh faces in the region’s contracted academy squad for the 2022-23 season — prop Yestyn Cook, second row Will Evans, openside Keanu Evans, fly-half Steffan Jac Jones and full-back Iori Badham from the Parc y Scarlets U16s programme and Isaac Young (hooker), Joe Rees (hooker) and Ioan Lewis (tight-head prop) from the U18s.
