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Bobby Sands
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So two years younger than NSW, not bad, apologies on accuracy.
Signed before the season started. 100%
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So two years younger than NSW, not bad, apologies on accuracy.
Signed before the season started. 100%
Strewthcobber
Simon Poidevin (60)
How many 16 year olds are Australian Super rugby teams signing up?
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Rugbynutter39
Michael Lynagh (62)
I am more pissed gps schools wasting scholarships on nz kids likely to go back to nz personally.
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waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
Are you able to clarify "asked not to be considered by any reply teams" i.e. when & by whom?
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Bobby Sands
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The source I got it from said, because he was going to the Crusaders he asked not to be selected for the GPS, or QLD Schools programs so he could focus on TSS's season. This is also supported by the rugby.com.au article from yesterday.
Mr Tank
Herbert Moran (7)
Sorry, I don’t buy that. Sounds like an apologist story from a parent who wants to try to justify their star player’s defection to another country by jumping straight onto the incompetent QRU/ARU bandwagon.
The kid is in year 12 for fucks sake, and he couldn’t wait a couple of months to see if an Australian club had interest in him? In fact, he had to have a contract signed before the GPS season even began. Bullshit.
The more obvious and likely story, he’s a kiwi, he wants to play the Crusaders and the All Blacks. So be it.
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Bobby Sands
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I have a text message from someone involved with the TSS XV that isn't the head coach. But believe what you want, it doesn't change anything.
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
Interesting. If he'd committed to those rep programs then fucked off I'd fully understand QRU & RA being pissed & using the P word. But if what you're hearing is correct then it's more a case of the boy choosing an option not to QRU's or RA's liking in which case they've got no grounds for complaint.
EDIT: even if he didn't expressly state his reason for not wanting to play rep footy, it shouldn't have been too hard to connect the dots: kiwi-born kid, last year at school, doesn't want to play rep footy for us, why? Oh, maybe he wants to go back to NZ & try his luck there.
kiap
Steve Williams (59)
Not as many as New Zealand Super rugby teams, apparently.
But sixteenth birthday signings are not unheard of in oz. I don't know how this TSS kid plays. Maybe he's good.
kiap
Steve Williams (59)
True enough. I mean the QRU "P-worded" a foreign schoolboy player back in 2014. That poach – there, I've said it – of the Tongan Thor wasn't to the NZRU's liking.
But, in that case as well this one, the player didn't take the rep team carrot. There might be grounds for grumbing if they had, but it wasn't so.
waiopehu oldboy
George Smith (75)
^^^^^^ the point is that QRU & RA could poach the entire Auckland Grammer 1st XV & you'd never see an article on all blacks.com comparable to the one that appeared on rugby.com.au
Jenkins9876
Herbert Moran (7)
They are different websites. rugby.com.au are trying to compete with the Telegraph, SMH - branded as an independent media arm of Rugby Australia which often breaks/writes unfavourable stories about Super clubs + slams the Wallabies when necessary. Allblacks.com is not that nor is it trying to be - which is completely fine - apples to oranges comparison
kiap
Steve Williams (59)
Holier than thou?
Fine, you won't see me riding to the rescue of rugby.com.au, or even reading blacks.com.
In the case of the former, the ARU hired a few scribes and are trying to write news ahead of just making it … So that's what you're gonna get.
kiap
Steve Williams (59)
Yeah, although I wonder how far that independence goes.
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Peter Sullivan (51)
If my son is ever good enough to get an offer to sign with the Crusaders I would tell him he is stupid not to take it.
Learn from the best for a few years and then choose what ever team in the world you want.
I am a Reds fan but surely anyone who follows rugby would have to think that spending a few years in the Crusaders set up has to be better than anything on offer in Australia.
While it is a shame to miss out on talent I am glad the boy has some smart people around him to guide him to what is best for him.
I am sure if he is that good then the Reds will gladly have him when he is 23, has finished growing and has 50 super rugby matches behind him
Learn from the best for a few years and then choose what ever team in the world you want.
I am a Reds fan but surely anyone who follows rugby would have to think that spending a few years in the Crusaders set up has to be better than anything on offer in Australia.
While it is a shame to miss out on talent I am glad the boy has some smart people around him to guide him to what is best for him.
I am sure if he is that good then the Reds will gladly have him when he is 23, has finished growing and has 50 super rugby matches behind him
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Bobby Sands
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The text said he told them and was up front. Apparently is very "grounded."
Any 10 playing 1's at TSS in year 10 must be alright
Jerry West
Sydney Middleton (9)
James Slipper set to head south of the border to Melbourne with one returning believed to be Ben Daley
Slim 293
Stirling Mortlock (74)
There’s one clear winner there..........
