Rugby Australia to target top NRL talent - Lomax case settled

[Bullmania]

will be much better off when they have local talent coming through the squad.

This is true for every NRL club.

 

[Fangs]

Not one player signed makes the 17 in any current NRL team.

Incredible achievement..lol

Liam Henry goes alright. He could be a starter at some NRL clubs.

 

[Gobsmacked]

Liam Henry goes alright. He could be a starter at some NRL clubs.

Tigers maybe, yeah fair enough.

 

[Fangs]

This is true for every NRL club.

Correct. But its a long term investment when it comes to Perth.

Sydney/Brisbane juniors are happy to move around clubs for a shot. Many of those clubs local down the road. Perth don't have that footprint yet.

When will Perth have their first local junior in first grade?

 

[Bullmania]

Tigers maybe, yeah fair enough.

Delulu

 

[Fangs]

Tigers maybe, yeah fair enough.

1 better than none.

They need toilers anyway. Dolphins had a lot of other things going for them like location and established juniors. But their inaugural top 30 wasn't the prettiest.

They should get Scott Sorensen.

 

[Dogs Of War]

Correct. But its a long term investment when it comes to Perth.

Sydney/Brisbane juniors are happy to move around clubs for a shot. Many of those clubs local down the road. Perth don't have that footprint yet.

When will Perth have their first local junior in first grade?

Depends if they can raid Rugby juniors over there and find someone. And how much the Force want to keep them.

 

[Fangs]

Depends if they can raid Rugby juniors over there and find someone. And how much the Force want to keep them.

We should go a top 30 with RL players first.

Change the strat once the club is through its first season. The RU boys will drool at the money on offer. And its just a better sport. Won't take them long to come around.

 

[Dogs Of War]

We should go a top 30 with RL players first.

Change the strat once the club is through its first season. The RU boys will drool at the money on offer. And its just a better sport. Won't take them long to come around.

Oh I mean target juniors playing Rugby in WA. Not established guys. We need to get them in our programs and reprogram them. League juniors dwindled and Rugby has some established pathways. Perth need to get things setup and have it as a purpose to get there own junior program happening fast. It's not like the talent isn't there. We have had WA guys in our comp before.

 

[Fangs]

Oh I mean target juniors playing Rugby in WA. Not established guys. We need to get them in our programs and reprogram them. League juniors dwindled and Rugby has some established pathways. Perth need to get things setup and have it as a purpose to get there own junior program happening fast. It's not like the talent isn't there. We have had WA guys in our comp before.

Perhaps perhaps.

Just want a functioning club. Tapping into the RU player base will be the cream on top. Its already happening right now and its fantastic to see.

 

[Perth Red]

Oh I mean target juniors playing Rugby in WA. Not established guys. We need to get them in our programs and reprogram them. League juniors dwindled and Rugby has some established pathways. Perth need to get things setup and have it as a purpose to get there own junior program happening fast. It's not like the talent isn't there. We have had WA guys in our comp before.

A lot of 'rugby' kids in WA play Union and league. Until now (and since the demise of the Pirates SG ball program) at 15 the best ones stuck with Union and dropped league as there was a direct development pathway for them and moving East at that age isnt for many. We just need to make sure our pathway system in WA (ie not be shipping them off to Sydney or Brisbane to play HM and SG age) is better than the Forces.

 

[Perth Red]

Correct. But its a long term investment when it comes to Perth.

Sydney/Brisbane juniors are happy to move around clubs for a shot. Many of those clubs local down the road. Perth don't have that footprint yet.

When will Perth have their first local junior in first grade?

Well we've had a sprinkling over the years. If you mean when will see a Perth Jnr come through the Perth Bears pathways to first grade I'd say 6-10 years unless we unearth a 16-18 year old diamond or union convert. The talented 11-14 year olds in NRLWA/WARU now are the ones who hopefully make it as they've had chance to develop though our top tier age group systems. One reason the expanded SHS program will prove so important.

 

[Fangs]

Well we've had a sprinkling over the years. If you mean when will see a Perth Jnr come through the Perth Bears pathways to first grade I'd say 6-10 years unless we unearth a 16-18 year old diamond or union convert. The talented 11-14 year olds in NRLWA/WARU now are the ones who hopefully make it as they've had chance to develop though our top tier age group systems. One reason the expanded SHS program will prove so important.

Why not year one? On reflection that is.

Perth should absolutely have a home grown local in their top 30 come 2027. Don't you agree?

If you are trying to build an identity then start with the guys already there. The Dolphins had some one I suppose.

 

[Wb1234]

Between nrl and french union will there be anybody left ?

 

[Perth Red]

Why not year one? On reflection that is.

Perth should absolutely have a home grown local in their top 30 come 2027. Don't you agree?

If you are trying to build an identity then start with the guys already there. The Dolphins had some one I suppose.

Because the NRl was short sighted, lacked a long term expansion strategy and rather than persist with the Pirates SG ball program and introduce a Perth NSWRL cup team 5 years ago we are back starting from scratch.

We have the numbers (our jnr numbers match many NRL catchment regions) but we have lacked the elite coaching and competition to capitilise on them.

I was hoping Jackson Topine was going to be ready for us but Bulldogs broke him. Josh Rogers would have been a great squad player but its a bit late for him. Likewise Royce Hunt.

 

[Dogs Of War]

Between nrl and french union will there be anybody left ?

For Aus Union, it's probably a good thing. Occasionally some will change allegiance, but most will still end up playing for Australia. So they get forwards trained over there to be beast free of charge. And Aus Union has always been a bit crap in developing that particular position.

 

[Gobsmacked]

For Aus Union, it's probably a good thing. Occasionally some will change allegiance, but most will still end up playing for Australia. So they get forwards trained over there to be beast free of charge. And Aus Union has always been a bit crap in developing that particular position.

It's funny how the default position of Union followers is always just a national team.

When Super Rugby is gone and Rugby isn't played on a professional level at all in the Pacific.. it'll probably still be.." how did we do at the world cup?"

Slowly getting hollowed out to just a shell that is trotted out as a novelty every once in a while.

Lomax is actually the testing ground for when Union needs to buy players just to fill out a test team, that's the future. Negotiating the loan of NRL players for a tournament.

 

[Dogs Of War]

It's funny how the default position of Union followers is always just a national team.

When Super Rugby is gone and Rugby isn't played on a professional level at all in the Pacific.. it'll probably still be.." how did we do at the world cup?"

Slowly getting hollowed out to just a shell that is trotted out as a novelty every once in a while.

Lomax is actually the testing ground for when Union needs to buy players just to fill out a test team, that's the future. Negotiating the loan of NRL players for a tournament.

Oh it isn't great for the game. But Union is not going to disappear totally no matter what no matter how big the NRL gets. They will always have some schools playing Union, and amateur clubs. The French and any other cashed up clubs overseas are always going to be targeting some guys who fit a profile they want. Most of the ones they need aren't the sort of guys who are great in the NRL anyway.

Really the money for Union just isn't there apart from that top level. But if other countries are doing the hard work of developing players, then it will tread water for a long time.

 

[taste2taste]

Looks like Lomax 'dream' aboat playing for the Wallabies lasted 1 week and already wants back into the NRL.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Looks like Lomax 'dream' aboat playing for the Wallabies lasted 1 week and already wants back into the NRL.

Yeah I had to laugh, deadly silence from the union cheer squad and officials who had been trying not to show their excitement and weeks of headlines like "Less maybe more as Lomax prepares to chase a dream, not money" and creaming themselves about landing an NRL `star`.
In fact, the only article on him today is a rather spiteful headline in the Herald quoting some union no-name saying " Don`t really care". As if.