Kurtley Beale

[Booyah]

I don't expect too many Kiwis to have heard anything about him, but most Aussies who follow schoolboy Rugby will know who he is.

For the benefit of the Kiwis, Beale is a 15 year old flyhalf playing for St Josephs in the first XV, and he's an absolutely freakish player. He's been called the next Mark Ella. Loads of potential.

Anyway, what exactly is the story with him? I hear he has signed to play League with Cronulla. No I don't have a source, but I keep hearing it. Does anyone know anything about it?

 

[bayrep]

:lol: so much for die hard league fans spouting off that Union has to buy in talent then . If it is true then it shows the double standard in opinion that some people have on this site.

 

[Anonymous]

If he does go it follows the absolute tragedy that was Shaun Foley (who was to the CAS what Beale is to the GPS) going to the Roosters.

 

[Polynesian Warrior]

I don't expect too many Kiwis to have heard anything about him, but most Aussies who follow schoolboy Rugby will know who he is.

For the benefit of the Kiwis, Beale is a 15 year old flyhalf playing for St Josephs in the first XV, and he's an absolutely freakish player. He's been called the next Mark Ella. Loads of potential.

Anyway, what exactly is the story with him? I hear he has signed to play League with Cronulla. No I don't have a source, but I keep hearing it. Does anyone know anything about it?

He sounds like a good footballer but in NZ schoolboys rugby there over 100 Kurtley Beale running around but only two will ever get reckonise by the national teams .

 

[rugged]

To Polynesian Warrior

Well you really must think our little competition is crap and New Zealand's is the be all and end all!

Looked to me in the schoolboy game this year that our little players were as talented as theirs.

 

[Johns Magic]

I've played against him, and he is an absolute freak.

 

[Mal Meninga]

He was a state league rep, so I wouldn't be worried about the transition.
As for signing for the sharks... he's from Penrith I think, so it's abit left field..

 

[Booyah]

he's from Penrith I think, so it's abit left field

Actually, I think he's from Kensington.

 

[Kurt Angle]

He is from Kensington. He's been playing League for ages, only picked up Union in the last 2 years when he was offered a scholarship.

He's about as Union as Wally Lewis.

 

[Nfed]

Kurtley Beale is from St Clair or Mt Druitt. After he enrolled at Joeys, he played with North Ryde and more recently with kensington.

 

[Anonymous]

I still think Foley is the greater loss.

 

[rugged]

I agree, plus rugby also lost a gun schoolboy winger to the Broncos, Leon Bott.

 

[Heritage XIII]

Beale is like a lot of 'so-called' poached players union likes to go on about. He has played more league than union and only got into the sport when he went to a non-league playing school.

This was the same for other players like Cross, Stuart, Wally Lewis, Campese, Lynagh (who remained in union but played league from the age of 6 to teens), and countless others.

If we look at players who went to league with no experience (Garrick Morgan-tragic), then the numbers are considerably less than what union historians make out.

Who are the 'poached' players? League probably lost heaps of talent to union thru the so-called amateur years but somehow union has turned this around to make them look like the victim when these players had the 'audacity' to return to their orginial game & forst love!.

 

[rugged]

League probably lost heaps of talent to union thru the so-called amateur years

What are you talking about?

 

[Heritage XIII]

Well, take Campese for instance. He didn't exactly stay in union soley for the 'love of it' It is well known he benefitted immensly from a financial point of view in union topped off with a stint in Italy. Same with Lynagh.

Plus union didn't get its 'shamatuer' tag for nothing. While league openly paid players, union stars were remunerated in less more subtle ways- jobs, speaking tours, money under the table and so. This is all well documented.

 

[rugged]

:roll:

 

[Anonymous]

Well, take Campese for instance. He didn't exactly stay in union soley for the 'love of it' It is well known he benefitted immensly from a financial point of view in union topped off with a stint in Italy. Same with Lynagh.

Plus union didn't get its 'shamatuer' tag for nothing. While league openly paid players, union stars were remunerated in less more subtle ways- jobs, speaking tours, money under the table and so. This is all well documented.

Oh you mean like how when he debuted for the Wallabies, and for several years after, George Gregan had to pull beers at the NSW union club to keep the power on at home?

Idiot.

 

[Kurt Angle]

George Gregan must have been the only barman in NSW on $1,200 an hour then

 

[bayrep]

How do you know that ?

 

[Heritage XIII]

Yeah right! How long has Gregan been earning the big bucks now?

You'll realise even many pro league players had to work in bars before they hit the big time.

ditto