NSW Tertiary name squad for India Tour

[yakstorm]

Source: http://www.asiapacificrl.com/2018/07/10/nsw-tertiary-name-squad-to-tour-india/

The New South Wales Tertiary Student Rugby League has this week announced the NSW Tertiary team that will tour India later this year.

The team, selected from the recent East/West Metropolitan match which took part at Pepper Stadium, Penrith on Sunday, will tour the sub-continent nation this September.

The tour will see the NSW Tertiary team play matches in Kolkata and Bangalore between September 18 – 25, as well as conduct coaching clinics in both areas.

In the selection match, Metropolitan East defeated Metropolitan West 18 – 14.

Players who have been selected for the Australian Universities Tour of South Africa were not considered for the NSW Tertiary Representative team.

NSW Tertiary Squad:
Greg Cranney (TAFE NSW)
Tim Curley (TAFE NSW)
Dennis Curry (TAFE NSW)
Troy Dargin (Sydney University)
Gabriel Farley (Macquarie University)
Joshua Gooley (Macquarie University)
Harry King (UTS)
Michael Klapsogiannis (TAFE NSW)
Toby Lei (Sydney University)
Kurt Lewis (Sydney University)
Cyrus Murray (TAFE NSW)
Johno Paparoulas (UTS)
Tommy Sarangaya (UTS)
Bradley Stevenson (Macquarie Uni)
Corey Stewart (Macquarie Uni)
Micah Vaki-Leong (UTS)
Jake Vrahnos (Sydney University)
Brady Webb (UTS)
Jake Williams (TAFE NSW)

After India pulled out of the Emerging Nations World Championship, this is a good result. Far more likely to make an impact on the development of the code in the country this way.

 

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After India pulled out of the Emerging Nations World Championship, this is a good result. Far more likely to make an impact on the development of the code in the country this way.

Yep, far better to have a series of games in the country than a group of players flying across the world to play in a small tournament.

Good idea to use these younger kids too. They would be excited where as the NRL players would just bitch the whole time

 

[siv]

Who are they playing ?

 

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After India pulled out of the Emerging Nations World Championship, this is a good result. Far more likely to make an impact on the development of the code in the country this way.

Great stuff.Like the set up.Tertiary students tend to be leading the way both here and in Europe.

They may have to compete with the 8 post brigade, who apparently have 1% of the population in raptures.

 

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I didn’t know the greatest game of all was played in India. Any info on it?

 

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After India pulled out of the Emerging Nations World Championship, this is a good result. Far more likely to make an impact on the development of the code in the country this way.

There hasn't been much news on the ENWC? you'd hope India could scrape together a team. The sport has to start somewhere. Good on the NSW Tertiary team to tour India, hope its a success and regular RL activity can continue there.

 

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I know of three different individuals leading the attempts to start Rugby League in India. They aren't rivals, just a case of it is a very large country, both geographically and population size.

In the south-west is Kerala, which is where the RLFI and lead by Rajeev Raj. The RLFI has been primarily focused on junior football, with kids between 12 - 18 taking part in their events and courses.

Kolkata is where Paul Walsh is based out of, a British Ex-Pat who sits on the ASEAN Rugby League board and help set up the Jungle Crows Rugby club.

Then in Mumbai, there is former St Helens man, Anthony Wright, who is doing work through the ACE Foundation to teach kids the code.

As for Bangalore, not sure who is driving there, and maybe it might be one of the above.