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Will Victorian ever produce a player good enough to play for Australia?

Perth Red

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Not born and trained until the nrl gets serious about investing in grass roots and schools program in the State. It’s a simple numbers game, get five thousand kids playing the game, take the top 100 into an elite program, 20 of them will make nrl first grade, 1 or 2 of them will become a kangaroo,

there’s been 7 players born or developed in Victoria to make rep teams
Timana Tahu is from victoria and represented Australia so to answer the original post, yes.
 
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Mr Angry

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lol, Tahu the Newy boy.

It is OK they can only produce a cricketer every twenty years or so, they do play that too.

Just shyte at it.

Sandgropers go better.

Hey I would love to see a Storm born and bred playing in the green and gold, I really would.
 
adamkungl

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Perth Red said:
Not born and trained until the nrl gets serious about investing in grass roots and schools program in the State. It’s a simple numbers game, get five thousand kids playing the game, take the top 100 into an elite program, 20 of them will make nrl first grade, 1 or 2 of them will become a kangaroo,

there’s been 7 players born or developed in Victoria to make rep teams
Timana Tahu is from victoria and represented Australia so to answer the original post, yes.
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Partially true but I think even this is overly optimistic.

If there are 5000 victorians kids playing, I still think the standard would be lower than 5000 QLD kids, and thus less chance an elite player coming out of it.
There's decades of "football IQ" built up through generational coaching and viewing that simply doesn't exist yet.

For what it's worth though, the following first grade players played some junior football in Melbourne, asterisk for *all* their junior football.

Jeremy Smith
Gareth Widdop
Charze Niccol-Klokstad
Young Tonumaipea *
Richie Kennar *
Mahe Fonua *
Francis Tualau
Drury Low *
Denny Solomona (Super League and England RU)
 
AlwaysGreen

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Perth Red said:
Not born and trained until the nrl gets serious about investing in grass roots and schools program in the State. It’s a simple numbers game, get five thousand kids playing the game, take the top 100 into an elite program, 20 of them will make nrl first grade, 1 or 2 of them will become a kangaroo,

there’s been 7 players born or developed in Victoria to make rep teams
Timana Tahu is from victoria and represented Australia so to answer the original post, yes.
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Has this simple numbers game been proven?
 
T-Boon

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When we implement my rule changes there will be several Victorian born players playing NRL within 2 years and a superstar or 2 within 5 years. You’ve got the T-Boon guarantee on that.
 
Perth Red

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There was a wrestler from Victoria called "Australian Suicide", now that's a catchy name lol
 
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