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    Junior recruitment and local junior development since 2012.

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      Needaname last edited by

      Watching Ava playing in Newtown today and being stuck in the majority of reserve grade for the year made me reflect how shallow and poor our roster has been since 2012.
      Does anyone have any statistics of players that have made a first grade debut since 2012 for our club that have moved on to other clubs and managed to retain a spot in first grade for their new club?
      I’d be curious to know our strike rate of just how successful or poor our our junior recruitment and or local junior development has been during this period.

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      • greatodensraven
        greatodensraven last edited by

        No stats but here’s a few names:

        Koroibete
        Moses
        Tedesco
        C Sironen
        Jnr Tatola
        Addo-Carr
        Marshall-king

        That’s all I can think of

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        • Harvey
          Harvey last edited by

          http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/teams/wests-tigers/transfers.html
          Suli
          Marshall King
          Blake Austin
          Bodene Thompson
          Ayshford
          Murdoch Marsila
          Seve
          Funaki
          Liovavave

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            Needaname last edited by

            Thanks.
            I wonder how many players we’ve debuted also since that time?

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            • greatodensraven
              greatodensraven last edited by

              Nathan Brown
              Matt Lodge

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              • greatodensraven
                greatodensraven last edited by

                36 according to Wikipedia

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                  Needaname last edited by

                  @:

                  36 according to Wikipedia

                  Is that first grade debut or club debut?

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                    Needaname last edited by

                    @:

                    http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/teams/wests-tigers/transfers.html
                    Suli
                    Marshall King
                    Blake Austin
                    Bodene Thompson
                    Ayshford
                    Murdoch Marsila
                    Seve
                    Funaki
                    Liovavave

                    I wouldn’t include Austin, Thompson as they debuted in previous club.
                    Seve and Funaki haven’t made a debut as yet or definitely did not for us.

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                    • greatodensraven
                      greatodensraven last edited by

                      First grade

                      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wests_Tigers_players

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                        Needaname last edited by

                        Ahh wow. 9 from 36.
                        Wikipedia appears to have a list of all the players who have played for the West’s Tigers.
                        I’ll put a list together of who has debuted how many games for our club and where they are now and post the results.
                        I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot more like Ava that can’t crack first grade.
                        Players that come to mind are.
                        Asipeli Fine
                        Akouala
                        BMM
                        Moltzen
                        Nathan Malone.

                        Blake Ashford. Not sure what year he debuted for us.
                        Then there’s players that haven’t been seen again like,
                        Blake lazerous.
                        Deloise Houter.
                        Lovett.
                        Jacob Miller.
                        Joel Luani.
                        Lamar Liovave.
                        Sean Spence - retired I know.
                        Jarrod Farlow.
                        Jai Hicks.

                        That’s off the top of my head.

                        It’s a pretty poor strike rate in my opinion.

                        Don’t even get me started on players we’ve recruited from other clubs that haven’t gone onto much since leaving us either. That’s another topic.

                        Thanks for the assistance.

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                          bp_tiger last edited by

                          u know u could go through nearly every other NRL side and i would be surprised if u could not have at least 4-5 players that could come out of there ISP side and be very good in there nrl side . i doubt if we have 2. our recruitment is at a all time low.

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                            Seantice last edited by

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                            u know u could go through nearly every other NRL side and i would be surprised if u could not have at least 4-5 players that could come out of there ISP side and be very good in there nrl side . i doubt if we have 2. our recruitment is at a all time low.

                            It is depressing when you see aides pike the Broncos and Panthers roll out talented players nearly every couple of weeks. We roll maybe one out every two-three years…

                            I wonder how much effect our new COE will improve our recruitment. Its got to help a little.

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                              Pawsandclaws last edited by

                              @:

                              No stats but here’s a few names:

                              Koroibete
                              Moses
                              Tedesco
                              C Sironen
                              Jnr Tatola
                              Addo-Carr
                              Marshall-king

                              That’s all I can think of

                              Suli and the big one we missed is Douelhi who is an outstanding talent. The powerful clubs rarely let great talent escape their system. At SG Ball level, Douehli was a star and made one of the State under age squads and he could have quite nicely slotted into our left centre position. We have to do much much better in identifying and retaining local talent as well as locking up the cream of other junior talent.

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                                The_Patriot last edited by

                                Doesnt really matter what the numbers are, the OP’s original concern about seeing Ava in reserve grade stands.

                                Way too much mediocrity around this place the last however many years.

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                                • jirskyr
                                  jirskyr last edited by

                                  This is an odd thread. How many players debut for Tigers, moved to another club and maintained a first-grade career?

                                  Well the odds would logically be that many of those players that move on DON’T make it at other clubs, because you would expect that Tigers, or any other club, would retain the good juniors wherever possible. So either they released the players because they weren’t making a stab of FG, or the players were poached because they were good footballers.

                                  I can’t see the club winning this argument. In the old days people complained that we focused too often on juniors and didn’t sign “real” established talent. Then people complained that we had lots of good juniors but too many of them were allowed to leave and went well at other clubs (the opposite of this topic).

                                  Now people are complaining that we don’t produce enough quality juniors and those that leave don’t go on to any heights.

                                  Take for example 2005 GF side and this week’s side v Dragons. (j) - denotes FG debutant with Tigers or Magpies.

                                  2005: Hodgo (j), Fitzy (j), Elford, Fatz, Patty, Benji (j), Prince, Laffranchi (j), Farah (j), Skando (j), Benny G (j), Buckets (j), Hammer (j), Fultz (j), Heighno (j), Gibbs (j), Payten = 12 debutants in the WT system

                                  2018 Rd 18: Mbye, Nofo (j), Marsters (j), Frozone, Thommo, Beji (j), Brooks (j), Packs, Farah (j), Matts, Rowdy (j), Aloiai (j), ET, Twal (j), Sue (j), MCK, Hooth (j) = 10 debutants in WT system

                                  Pretty much the same output.

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