Sideline Hack
Peter Burge (5)
France
QLD Colts 2024
- Thread starter Make_Rugby_Great_Again
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Periera is off to France and won’t be selected
Finlay King to start also Watkins to start as well over Robinson - Watkins more aggressive
Pakeho and Goldsbrough both out of the 23
Oates??? All 3 very overrated
Heaton is playing the house down and has to be the 12
Kluck from Norths deserves a bench spot.
Finlay King to start also Watkins to start as well over Robinson - Watkins more aggressive
Pakeho and Goldsbrough both out of the 23
Oates??? All 3 very overrated
Heaton is playing the house down and has to be the 12
Kluck from Norths deserves a bench spot.
Sideline Hack
Peter Burge (5)
- Pereira and Su'a both off to France so won't be there
- Rauluni from Easts will be in the mix
- Simpson from Bond will be in the mix
- Heaton from Norths has been solid
- Don't know if he is 19 or 20 but Malum from Sunnybank has been good.
- McLaren (Sunnybank) has looked better in his Prem Grade outings than some of the Colts showings.
- Rauluni from Easts will be in the mix
- Simpson from Bond will be in the mix
- Heaton from Norths has been solid
- Don't know if he is 19 or 20 but Malum from Sunnybank has been good.
- McLaren (Sunnybank) has looked better in his Prem Grade outings than some of the Colts showings.
Make_Rugby_Great_Again
Allen Oxlade (6)
Based on form, you’d have a lot more Wests and Souths players in the squad!
Players include Liam McGregor (No.8) who has been strong for Wests all year. James Martens has been the best half-back performing in 1st Grade as well and will start over Reidy IMO. Ollie Barrett to shift to loose-head to accomodate for the form of Finlay King who has been the most accurate in a dominant Wests line-out as well as his work-rate around the field and deserves to start.
South’s tight head prop Slater Galloway has to be in the squad somewhere as well as he has been in pretty good form for the Magpies.
Players include Liam McGregor (No.8) who has been strong for Wests all year. James Martens has been the best half-back performing in 1st Grade as well and will start over Reidy IMO. Ollie Barrett to shift to loose-head to accomodate for the form of Finlay King who has been the most accurate in a dominant Wests line-out as well as his work-rate around the field and deserves to start.
South’s tight head prop Slater Galloway has to be in the squad somewhere as well as he has been in pretty good form for the Magpies.
Sideline Hack
Peter Burge (5)
Isn’t McGregor 20 this year?
Rugby follower
Billy Sheehan (19)
What’s the go with France and our young Colts players? Surely the money isn’t much? Or is this how bad our pathways have become?
Oracle83
Bill McLean (32)
Is this our favourite agents consistently taking players from our system? A shame for Marcus to leave would have been a future Wallaby for mine
Sideline Hack
Peter Burge (5)
Not sure who the favourite agent is but at the end of the day - there are only so many spots/contracts available at the Reds (or any other Super team - which will be exacerbated by the decision to take out the Rebels) so if the option is there to get a deal that allows a kid to fully commit to rugby - I think you find many would take up the option. At least they are still playing rugby.
Probably a discussion for another thread but I think the challenge moving forward is not to look at it as what is wrong with our pathways (the pathways are still churning out players) but what is wrong with the professional setup that it can't accommodate more kids who just want to play professional sport - where ever that opportunity might arise.
Probably a discussion for another thread but I think the challenge moving forward is not to look at it as what is wrong with our pathways (the pathways are still churning out players) but what is wrong with the professional setup that it can't accommodate more kids who just want to play professional sport - where ever that opportunity might arise.
LevitatingSocks
Alfred Walker (16)
Not to be reductive, but what's wrong is a lack of money. Every other problem we face is downstream of that.
Maybe put more into the junior super rugby pacific sides that they do? Have a spot where the colts players can be contracted to a super side, and there be an u21’s comp that runs alongside super, and simply have the u21’s be a curtain raiser to the super teams, I know personally i’d go into suncorp early if there was an u21’s game before.
You’d even go to lengths that players in this comp, the sides assist them in terms of apprenticeships/university
You’d even go to lengths that players in this comp, the sides assist them in terms of apprenticeships/university
JRugby2
Ted Thorn (20)
I think this answers why this doesn't happen (below)
Also I feel that we probably need a fully fledged SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) womens comp before a U20s. But this is and will continue to a be problem for us. Less teams in super rugby won't make us stronger, we'll just lose more players due to a lack of opportunity
Also I feel that we probably need a fully fledged SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) womens comp before a U20s. But this is and will continue to a be problem for us. Less teams in super rugby won't make us stronger, we'll just lose more players due to a lack of opportunity
TheGhostWhoWalks
Allen Oxlade (6)
We absolutely DO NOT need a women’s comp before U20’s. Go to any hospital cup club on a Saturday and there is bugger all people watching the women. The standard is poor. Yes I agree that it needs to become stronger however it won’t whilst a certain coach at Sylvan Road keeps stealing other clubs players.
LevitatingSocks
Alfred Walker (16)
You've got Wallaroos and contracted 7s players starting alongside women who have never played rugby before. The numbers aren't there to expand more at the moment.
headhunter93
Bob McCowan (2)
Same questions can be asked at UQ. This period of the season is really establishing the 'pretenders' and the 'contenders'. With UQ colts 2 and 3 winning by 50+ against Easts, the UQ colts 1 side struggled to keep up with the pace and the aggression that Easts showed. Its hard to see as an old boy watching all the other teams at UQ showing their class and contending for a top spot (including 1st grade, womens and other grade teams) - its sad to see that Colts 1 cant even contend with a team that is 7th on the ladder and without the likes of their Junior Wallaby players (Liddy, Goldsbrough and Bloomfield). Rumours are also going around that the coach at UQ is in disputes with many parents and staff; could potentially knock them out of the finals for the first time in years.
TheGhostWhoWalks
Allen Oxlade (6)
Word out of Crosby is that a certain colts coach or 2 will be moved on at the end of the year regardless of results. My mail is that since they have a new director the culture has turned toxic. Players are unhappy with the culture and selections. Guess we will have to wait and see at the end of the year….
Quicktapsonly
Chris McKivat (8)
Haven’t they got a new Pasifika Coordinator? How’s that playing out?