At the risk of sounding anything like a certain Shore fanatic on this forum, I am personally disappointed with no Le Maitre (7, Shore). I also feel like other NSW boys that were hard done by were Charlie O'kane (front row, bench NSW 1's), Jono Ryan (6, NSW II's) and Charlie Poynton (wing, NSW II's). I feel they were better than the boys playing in front of them.
No player from the NSW II's team was selected... after a massively dominant performance... which I think comes down to lazy selection. This is highly disappointing as politics and lazy selecting is a massive reason we are losing so much talent to league. Often the best player in their position misses out on the top team, ESPECIALLY at a schoolboy level, and this is something all of us on the forum understand. You'd think these pathways would learn eventually.
Malakye Enasio (outside centre, Knox) was the only non starter from the originally named NSW 1's team, who wasn't picked for Aus Schools.
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