Youngsters selected for NSW

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Youngsters selected for NSW

Monday 20 May 2013 3:45 PM
Youngsters selected for NSW

Wests Tigers youngsters Ray Stone and Pifeleti Pifeleti have been selected in the NSWRL Under 16s side to play Queensland as a curtain raiser to Holden State of Origin Game One on Wednesday, June 5.

Ray Stone played his second season with Western Suburbs in the Harold Matthews competition in 2013, leading his side to within one place of the grand final.

Stone is a hard tackling and running second rower from the Group 6 competition in NSW.

After a massive season for the Magpies, Stone has well and truly earned his Blues jersey.

Pifeleti Pifeleti also completed his second season in Harold Matthews in 2013, after debuting as a 15-year-old.

A giant for his age, Pifeleti is a strong front rower who laid the platform for his Balmain teammates.

Pifeleti is a Wests Tigers local, who was awarded a scholarship at Holy Cross-Ryde.

Wests Tigers congratulates our young stars.

 

[Yossarian]

Well done to both boys. Anyone able to provide some more info on them?

 

[innsaneink]

My son played for years against Pif
Big, fast and strong….he started @ Balmain Jrs at Strathfield raiders, his first year that I recall him teams would forfeit when they came up against them because of him....too big and mummmsys were frightened
That team played something like 3 games outta the last 10 weeks...the rest were forfeits.
He w ent to LW I think for a year or 2 and then Holy X...

Teams would start to check that he'd played his own age that day before he was able to play up a grade, otherwise he couldnt play....such was his dominance

Hard to miss and easy to follow where he was each year. Has played in the same teams as Curtis' brother last few years I think

 

[pHyR3]

wow, how big is this kid ink? Biggest ive seen in school level footy is around 115 in U15s and maybe 120ish in u16s. Both tongan, apparently in tonga their birth date is baptism which is around 2-3 years of age. So they're basically 18-19 year olds playing people in Year 10 :laughing:

 

[innsaneink]

I think this is him far right, u/14s 2011….he was still eligible u/13s then
I think the player in front of him may have played NSW 16s last year.

Hope its OK to post this - delete if not.


 

[pHyR3]

damn, he's big! that no. 9 would get flattened in about 2 seconds one on one.

Could probably play first grade at 13 haha.

Hope he's fast and fit enough to play 1st grade. God knows we could use a 125kg 60min player at the tigers…

 

[tigertye]

wow, how big is this kid ink? Biggest ive seen in school level footy is around 115 in U15s and maybe 120ish in u16s. Both tongan, apparently in tonga their birth date is baptism which is around 2-3 years of age. So they're basically 18-19 year olds playing people in Year 10 :laughing:

Yeah mate from memory this is true. Not sure if the baptism thing applies only to Tongan's though. I remember a junior game I played against All Saints around U13's and the parents had an uproar because one of the players was well over 100kg and they had seen him park his car with p plates around the corner.

The guy near killed us on the park.

 

[pHyR3]

wow, how big is this kid ink? Biggest ive seen in school level footy is around 115 in U15s and maybe 120ish in u16s. Both tongan, apparently in tonga their birth date is baptism which is around 2-3 years of age. So they're basically 18-19 year olds playing people in Year 10 :laughing:

Yeah mate from memory this is true. Not sure if the baptism thing applies only to Tongan's though. I remember a junior game I played against All Saints around U13's and the parents had an uproar because one of the players was well over 100kg and they had seen him park his car with p plates around the corner.

The guy near killed us on the park.

:roll wouldnt you feel bad though? i wouldnt feel great about decking 13 year olds….

And how is he playing u13s with Ps? Cause, i thought the baptism thing meant his official birthdate was several years later

 

[Nate_DAWG]

wow, how big is this kid ink? Biggest ive seen in school level footy is around 115 in U15s and maybe 120ish in u16s. Both tongan, apparently in tonga their birth date is baptism which is around 2-3 years of age. So they're basically 18-19 year olds playing people in Year 10 :laughing:

Yeah mate from memory this is true. Not sure if the baptism thing applies only to Tongan's though. I remember a junior game I played against All Saints around U13's and the parents had an uproar because one of the players was well over 100kg and they had seen him park his car with p plates around the corner.

The guy near killed us on the park.

:roll wouldnt you feel bad though? i wouldnt feel great about decking 13 year olds….

And how is he playing u13s with Ps? Cause, i thought the baptism thing meant his official birthdate was several years later

Who told you that Tongans birth date is their baptism? Since when do Tongans wait until they are 2-3 to get baptised? I am Samoan, have many Tongan friends and i have never heard this rubbish before. When a child is born in Samoa and i am sure in Tonga, they get a birth certificate, generated through a government department - nothing to do with the many churches. Did you get this info from Ray Warren's book of cultural intolerance!!

 

[pHyR3]

That's just what I've heard? Can you honestly say that kid in the picture is 13?? He and many others of islander decent look a lot older than what they say their age is

 

[Nate_DAWG]

That's just what I've heard? Can you honestly say that kid in the picture is 13?? He and many others of islander decent look a lot older than what they say their age is

He is a big boy, do i know for a fact that he is 13-of course not. Are there many 13 year old islander kids in which look bigger than most 18 year old anglo kids - yes. My nephew is 12 and 100kgs, different ethnic groups have different traits, Polynesians are generally physically big at an early age (my mum tells me it is because of taro!)- this is the reason for the prevelance of PIs in junior rep teams.

Just because they look older does not mean that they are. BTW most of these kids in which you are referring to would of been born in OZ or NZ so i am sure that they would have to provide birth certificate etc when registering. I do realise that in juniour league there has been some dodgey managers pushing through kids who are not of the right age, but generally it would not be the kids who are huge as they would be suspected of being older and the other clubs would complain.

 

[wests4life987]

personally my cousin has played against Pifeleti and i went to watch he is a big boy let me tell you that runs it hard but was up against a quality team so they could get him down but was very hard. but close to unstoppable when he runs hard close to the line in the U15's comp

 

[Goose]

That's just what I've heard? Can you honestly say that kid in the picture is 13?? He and many others of islander decent look a lot older than what they say their age is

Ive heard all this stuff before.

It is not true, alot of Island boys develop faster and are bigger at young age. nothing to do with being 17 with p plates or no birth certificates.

It is a myth that they dont have birth certificates and all that, many a kid born here, and I know exactly how old they are, are big, just as big as this kid (or nearly anyway)

Tonga and Samoa are not backwards places incapable of knowing how old they are.

 

[pHyR3]

Never thought they were backwards, just had a different system which would explain early development. But I'm sorry for any offence caused, not trying to single out islanders, just stating what I had heard