Declared interest: I'm a proud Randwick dad who watched the Randwick U17 Boys go through the pool and semi undefeated and then go down gallantly in the Final to a deserving Parramatta.
Given their strong performance I think the selectors should be looking at including a few more Wicks boys in the U17 Sydney team. Most of the comments and team suggestions have at the most two Wicks boys in the run on team suggestion.
For mine:
Nick Koutsoukis should be the Sydney number 2. In the final, Parra did not win one of the Randwick lineouts. Conversely the Wicks jumpers Ryan Powter (8), Tom O'Connor (7) and Zac Wheeler (4) won all of the Parra lineouts bar one (I have watched the video a couple of times now and I'm not sure if it was the terrible conditions that contributed, but both had to contend with it).
Fred Fiala Motu is mentioned in most of the above as he should be.
Jordan Terare (9) was fantastic as was Ben O'Donnell (10)
Zayde Alvaride and Josh Mitchell were very strong in defence the whole comp.
I say lets pick on current form and proven performance, not on "he was in the team last year so must be a start, despite his team not making it to the semis". I agree with RugbyRugby above re the Wests players. How could a fair selection system choose more Wests players than Wicks given the performance over 3 days by Randwick and 2 days by Wests? Lets be fair guys.
I note the teams are still not out on the website.