Jersey Flegg Team Announcement: Round 20

[jirskyr]

@jirskyr The recent QLD rep teams were littered with Bronco talent. Coates is just the tip. Melbourne offered up Tino Faasuamaleaui recently which explains why Welch is being sought. Strategic recruitment and development to fill vacancies. Succession planning is happening. I was asked why WTs didn't have a third fullback option after Tedesco and Papenhuyzen? Good question and why now are we just starting to do junior recruitment again out of QLD?

Brisbane Brocos

Centres Gehamat Shibasaki, Xavier Coates, Katoni Staggs

Fullbacks Tesi Niu, Reece Walsh, Herbie Farnham

Halves Tom Deardon, Cory Paix, Tanah Boyd (recently released to Gold Coast), Troy Dargan

Melbourne Storm next stat Tino Faasuamaleaui (prop) and half Billy Walters.

Of course the QLD rep teams were littered with Broncos talent - happens every year! That's like saying the Victorian U18s squad has strong links to the Storm.

There are 34 players selected in the Origin U18s every year, plus another 34 in the Residents sides. That's 68 players of sub-firsts representative level. Averages out at 4.25 guys per club, which is not enough to get a top-tier option for every club in every position.

Now you have gone and listed out all the backup options of one specific club, none of which have really been tested and proven yet. Jury is out on Staggs and Shibasaki at best; all the others haven't played more than 5 games of firsts.

I can take the Tigers team of any era and research all the backup options the club had, and whether or not they were any good ends up being a matter of opinion and time.

Ultimately, Tigers did have a 3rd fullback option, clearly, we fielded fullbacks in every game since Tedesco and Paps left. But to have anyone at Tedesco-calibre waiting in the wings is pure luck.

 

[Geo]

Making a Rep side is no certainty..I was listening to Cammy on the Matty Johns podcast about being not selected for the Broncos and he was rattling off all the names who were supposed to be the next Allan Langer Steve Walters etc etc ahead of him....haven't heard of any of them and none of them ever played a game..it's a numbers game for all teams one team towns have an advantage ...but developing the player is more important..

I think we are heading in the right direction when it comes to development players in looking outside the catchment..

 

[Guest]

@fred all that this points out is that McDonnell got sacked by 2 clubs in about 3 years.

McDonnell needs to be given a brief as to the type of players we're looking for in each position and find players that match. His personal tastes should be largely irrelevant.

His personal tastes largely consist of fast food.

 

[happy_tiger]

Making a Rep side is no certainty..I was listening to Cammy on the Matty Johns podcast about being not selected for the Broncos and he was rattling off all the names who were supposed to be the next Allan Langer Steve Walters etc etc ahead of him....haven't heard of any of them and none of them ever played a game..it's a numbers game for all teams one team towns have an advantage ...but developing the player is more important..

I think we are heading in the right direction when it comes to development players in looking outside the catchment..

This will sound silly but being the best on the field at juniors can mean a lack of hard work

The amount of blokes I know from my days who didn't make it compared to players who did talent wise at that stage ...crazy

You mention Alfie Geo ...in 85 I would have told you Alf was going nowhere , his brother Kevin was way better

Same with Willie Carne or John Plath ....not a chance ...couldn't even make local regional rep sides ......Adrian Lam the same

 

[Geo]

Making a Rep side is no certainty..I was listening to Cammy on the Matty Johns podcast about being not selected for the Broncos and he was rattling off all the names who were supposed to be the next Allan Langer Steve Walters etc etc ahead of him....haven't heard of any of them and none of them ever played a game..it's a numbers game for all teams one team towns have an advantage ...but developing the player is more important..

I think we are heading in the right direction when it comes to development players in looking outside the catchment..

This will sound silly but being the best on the field at juniors can mean a lack of hard work

The amount of blokes I know from my days who didn't make it compared to players who did talent wise at that stage ...crazy

You mention Alfie Geo ...in 85 I would have told you Alf was going nowhere , his brother Kevin was way better

Same with Willie Carne or John Plath ....not a chance ...couldn't even make local regional rep sides ......Adrian Lam the same

Cammy mentioned Thurston as well who was told by the Broncos take a hike lad you too small..

 

[momo_amp_medo]

@fred Don’t repeat everything your told until it’s solid fact ... until that it’s just plain old gossip.

 

[CarltonDry]

@momo_amp_medo And some people on here have dodgy motives considering it’s pretty anonymous and could be say a Bulldogs troll 🤔

 

[fred]

@CarltonDry definitely not a troll, will be there at Blacktown on saturday@1pm, to watch the boys go around, I have my own opinions on players and there abilities etc....... but the person who told me is down at concord a fair bit, I just assumed that they would have a fair idea of what’s doing down there and thought I’d pass it on to other fans, mainly because I thought it was interesting what I was hearing and how different people evaluate different players and so on.....

 

[leftrightout]

@fred keep up the info Fred I’d like to hear what’s going on some I don’t agree on but there’s a bit there that’s interesting keep it up if you hear anything more

 

[balmain boy]

@fred If you fancy holding up your phone and live streaming the game to youtube for us to watch that'd be cool! :sunglasses:

I don't understand how the nswrl film every game but don't stream them or make replays available!

 

[WT2K]

Nice bit of work by Curtis Wilson. Dylan Smith opens the scoring. WT leading 6-0. 25 mins left in the 1st half

 

[TheDaBoss]

Nice bit of work by Curtis Wilson. Dylan Smith opens the scoring. WT leading 6-0. 25 mins left in the 1st half

not livestreamed is it?

 

[Madge]

@TheDaBoss nah it isn't, he said earlier in the week that he was going to the game.

 

[WT2K]

WT leading 12-10 at HT. Dylan Smith scoring just on HT.

 

[WT2K]

Nice try by Curtis Wilson. Bit of pace shown there. Tigers leading 22-10. 25mins left

 

[Madge]

thanks for the updates @WT2K really appreciated! If you could provide an insight on the overall team and individual performances at the end of the game that would be great!

 

[WT2K]

Tigers in again via Lee-Silva. Ben Seufale has been a handful all game. Really impressed by what I've seen of him today. Tigers 28-10 with 17mins left

 

[WT2K]

Full-time. Tigers win 34-14.

 

[fred]

@WT2K I thought Dylan smith was good early and I’m not his biggest fan, and hooker radjovic was good, hard to film a game when your looking after a four year old which brings me to my next point thank you Kane Bradley and shondre lee Silva for having a quick chat and shaking my little nephews hand, really nice guys and didn’t realise how tall Bradley was until I was up close, will end up a big unit.

 

[thegbone]

good win but considering who had dropped back it would want to be