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Yossarian said:
Is the team listed somewhere free?
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Demps said:
Good bloke ?
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I haven't seen him since 1997, but he was a good guy at school.

Andrew was probably the guy everyone thought had the best chance of playing first grade, because he was such an athlete - fast and strong. Though he might have been a better sprinter than footballer overall. I don't know why he never made it.

But actually one of the other guys from the same team ended up having a decent career - Andrew Lomu played about 100 matches for Roosters, Sharks and Raiders.
 
jirskyr said:
I haven't seen him since 1997, but he was a good guy at school.

Andrew was probably the guy everyone thought had the best chance of playing first grade, because he was such an athlete - fast and strong. Though he might have been a better sprinter than footballer overall. I don't know why he never made it.

But actually one of the other guys from the same team ended up having a decent career - Andrew Lomu played about 100 matches for Roosters, Sharks and Raiders.
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Love hearing stories like this....

Hopefully the young Large lads make a good career at the Tigers.
 
jirskyr said:
I haven't seen him since 1997, but he was a good guy at school.

Andrew was probably the guy everyone thought had the best chance of playing first grade, because he was such an athlete - fast and strong. Though he might have been a better sprinter than footballer overall. I don't know why he never made it.

But actually one of the other guys from the same team ended up having a decent career - Andrew Lomu played about 100 matches for Roosters, Sharks and Raiders.
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I remember back then I was hired by Brother Hester to shoot action photos for the schools yearbook. I was also working for the Sydney League News magazine and doubled up my gigs by writing a critique of the CBHS side for the SLN.

I remember the Lewisham coach, Noel Donohue, a nice bloke who’d also coached Wests junior rep teams,
was a little peeved by my article. He suggested to me that I may have tipped off a detail or two about his side to opposition coaches for their upcoming Commonwealth Cup campaign. Sorry Noel 🥴
 
Demps said:
Love hearing stories like this....

Hopefully the young Large lads make a good career at the Tigers.
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Actually the really interesting story from my schoolboy days was that at one point around 1990 we had a fairly strong pipeline of emerging talent, which is pretty good for a non-selective school.

My Dad taught Paul Osborne and the guy was a schoolboy freak, when Lewo made the Commonwealth Bank final (losing to Gregs). Michael Speechley was a few years behind that, then when I started high school we had Solo Haumono a few years ahead of us.

Everyone knew Solo would become a pro, the guy was a weapon, the only kid I knew who could dunk the school basketball ring. When Lewo won the A-Grade with Solo in Year 12, the opposition just could not contain him. I think I was in Year 8 at the time.

We had quite a few sporting talents at the time - Greg Stafford the Swans player was about the same vintage as Solo, and a few years below me was young Brett Holman who ended up playing for the Socceroos.

But the one that sticks in my mind is we had this guy Tyler, I think it was Dave Tyler, and he was the shit in his age group, already well-known in the juniors and clearly the best player we had going. But Tyler had a recurring injury like dodgy knees, and I think he bounced around in Balmain and Bulldogs juniors without making any dent on first grade.

Instead this other guy Shane Rigon comes good right around Year 12, and although everyone knew he was good, I wasn't of the opinion that he was the guy to necessarily make a career of it. But then he plays some 200 games for Roosters and Souths.

Other interesting stuff happens, like watching a 16-year old Paul Mellor play A-Grade for Pagewood, with Shannon Donato. Mellor was a weapon, already man-sized at 16. Young Braith Anasta was playing for Randwick a few years behind me. Randwick were always bastards to play.

Probably my last good story was we had this terrific sprinter a year ahead of me called Jamie Green. Bloke was BY FAR the fastest guy in the MCC for several consecutive years. In Year 12 (me in Year 11) he lines up at the inter-school carnival and the only question is by how far he is going to win, because he's been obliterating the opposition for years.

Well the race goes and this tall blonde fellow laps the field, including Jamie Green left at a distant second. "Who the hell is this bloke from North Shore?" everyone wonders. Well it's Matt Shirvington, and within a few years he's in Olympic contention.

Since I left it's been a bit dire for footy talent; it seems to accumulate now in the Sports High Schools and other selective sporting schools.
 
Bus 2 Terrigal said:
I remember back then I was hired by Brother Hester to shoot action photos for the schools yearbook. I was also working for the Sydney League News magazine and doubled up my gigs by writing a critique of the CBHS side for the SLN.

I remember the Lewisham coach, Noel Donohue, a nice bloke who’d also coached Wests junior rep teams,
was a little peeved by my article. He suggested to me that I may have tipped off a detail or two about his side to opposition coaches for their upcoming Commonwealth Cup campaign. Sorry Noel 🥴
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Ha, I was there then.

Noel was like the Wayne Bennett of schoolboy coaching for us. I believe Noel Donohue coached a young Tim Brasher at one point those Wests junior reps.
 
jirskyr said:
Ha, I was there then.

Noel was like the Wayne Bennett of schoolboy coaching for us. I believe Noel Donohue coached a young Tim Brasher at one point those Wests junior reps.
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Yeah Noel had Tim Brasher and Jim Serdaris in his Wests SG Ball side that played semis In 1987. They ran into a Canberra team who had Clyde and Gaffey ... and that was the end of that 😬
 
jirskyr said:
Funny you ask that because I was just wondering the same thing. I was in Andrew Large's year at school.
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I played against him growing up when he played for Burwood United. He was always a good ball runner. Big and fast.
 
Tigers_Wests said:
A lot of our Wests boys (Laulili'i brothers, Solomome Saukuru, Da Silva, Galvin, Craig, Leatigaga, Waqa) got a big win for Westsfield Sports High 54 to 8 over Endeavour Sports High yesterday. Should place them 2nd in their pool and into the quarter finals.
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What a CHAMPION for keeping us in the loop ,
pps we need more of this positive stuff on here.
most people read this, especially our young up and comers.
 
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