Would love to see more representitives from outside the GPS this year. As I have discussed on various other forums Nepotism towards the GPS has been too strong within the reds academy. 13 players from NC in the u15s and a coach is simply ridiculous. Hopefully the 16's we see closer scorelines against Gen Blue and more variety and skill than last year.
Don't know if anyone else did but I happened to take a look at the u15 state carnival played a couple of weeks ago a Padua Colledge. There was some ripper talent shown at that comp and I was looking forward to the selections. There was promise from the Capricornia team (9,15,20,6,8,12) Met North (10,4,2,12,7,9), Met East (2,5,13,8,1,3) and gold Coast (3,5,10,6). However, the team list completely disregarded this. Especially from the Capricornia region I don't know if you guys know about them, but they have a history of finishing 8th, However this year they had a blinder and came 4th and played some excellent rugby drawing a crowd to every game. Though as predicted the coach (Sean Graham.) Overlooked the country teams. He didn't even show up until the last day of the carnival with a pre picked team. Selecting only one cap player and five Mest West players even though they finished 6th Same happening to Sunny Coast who finished 3rd and got one representative in the team. Typical of Nudgee they get players in the team that have been injured or away for the first part of the season! Sorry for my anger but I am very passionate about my rugby and hate when young players are missing out just because of where they live or because they're not best mates (From NC) with the coach.