Local juniors and/or players developed by your team

[badav]

just stemming off another thread. i would be interested to know for teams top squad. how many of the players are juniors, or have been developed by the club.

just to make it a little less subjective, include juniors AND players who have only played first grade at that club.

for bris.

1. Hunt
2. Boyd
3. Michaels
4. Hodges
5. Kemp
6. Lockyer
7. Wallace
8. Hannant
9. Ennis
10. Clinton
11. Stagg
12. Parker
13. Carroll
14. PJ Marsh
15. Sims
16. Thaiday
17. Taylor
18. Eastwood
19. Hewitt
20. Kenny
21. Moon
22. Roberts


not a bad ratio. but was better in 06.

 

[Monk]

i only know few roosters that were brought up by the club...
mini, i think is one... pearce might be... (i dont really research juniors)
perrett, aubusson bros...
i really dont know any roosters fans know????

 

[thommo4pm]

just stemming off another thread. i would be interested to know for teams top squad. how many of the players are juniors, or have been developed by the club.

just to make it a little less subjective, include juniors AND players who have only played first grade at that club.

for bris.

1. Hunt
2. Boyd
3. Michaels
4. Hodges
5. Kemp
6. Lockyer
7. Wallace
8. Hannant
9. Ennis
10. Clinton
11. Stagg
12. Parker
13. Carroll
14. PJ Marsh
15. Sims
16. Thaiday
17. Taylor
18. Eastwood
19. Hewitt
20. Kenny
21. Moon
22. Roberts


not a bad ratio. but was better in 06.

Wasn't Hannant developed at the Roosters?
I realise he is a QLD'er, but he played lower grades at the Chooks. Didn't he also make his 1st grade debut at the Chooks? Might be wrong on that last point.

 

[watatank]

Pearce came to the Roosters from Norths at the end of 2005.

I have no idea who the Dragons will play but obviously the vast majority have been developed from the juniors.

1. Ben Hornby
2. Brett Morris
3. Mark Gasnier
4. Matt Cooper
5. Josh Morris
6. Rangi Chase
7. Jamie Soward
8. Justin Poore
9. Simon Woolford
10. Jason Ryles
11. Beau Scott
12. Ben Creagh
13. Dean Young

14. Chase Stanley
15. Kirk Reynoldson
16. Ricky Thorby
17. Lagi Setu

 

[thommo4pm]

Hornby - Dragons
Morris twins - Dragons
Nightingale - Dragons
Gasnier - Dragons
Cooper- Dragons
Rangi Chase - Non Dragons
Jamie Soward - Non Dragon

Poore - Dragon
Ben Ellis - 1st grade debut at Dragons
Ryles - Dragon
Scott - Dragon
Creagh - Dragon
Young - Dragon

Setu - Dragon
Hunt - Dragon
Thorby - Kiwi, developed by Dragons, 1st grade debut as a Dragon
Chase Stanley - Dragon

Not sure many other teams can match that, possibly Newcastle, in terms of Locals I mean.

 

[badav]

Wasn't Hannant developed at the Roosters?
I realise he is a QLD'er, but he played lower grades at the Chooks. Didn't he also make his 1st grade debut at the Chooks? Might be wrong on that last point.

Pretty sure he was in the junior system at the Broncs when the roosters snared him.

I think he did make he debut in firsts for the chooks, but he would qualify on being a junior, as opposed to only playing first grade for Bris.

 

[thommo4pm]

Pearce came to the Roosters from Norths at the end of 2005.
I have no idea who the Dragons will play but

1. Ben Hornby
2. Brett Morris
3. Mark Gasnier
4. Matt Cooper
5. Josh Morris
6. Rangi Chase
7. Jamie Soward
8. Justin Poore
9. Simon Woolford
10. Jason Ryles
11. Beau Scott
12. Ben Creagh
13. Dean Young

14. Chase Stanley
15. Kirk Reynoldson
16. Ricky Thorby
17. Lagi Setu

Setu has been developed by us. 1st grade debut with us.
Thorby came to us of his own accord and we have bought him into 1st grade.

 

[thommo4pm]

Pretty sure he was in the junior system at the Broncs when the roosters snared him.

I think he did make he debut in firsts for the chooks, but he would qualify on being a junior, as opposed to only playing first grade for Bris.

Fair enough, I wasn't sure when he went down to the Chooks from QLD.

 

[Bazal]

Jarryd Hayne
Kris Inu
Eric Grothe (although 'technically' a Wests Jnr I guess)
Ben Smith
Tim Smith
Nathan Cayless
Nathan Hindmarsh
Chad Robinson (I think?)
Matt Keating

Off the top of my head

 

[yobbo84]

South Sydney

1. Nathan Merritt
2. Fetuli Talanoa
3. Nigel Vagana
4. Yileen Gordon
5. Shannon Hegarty
6. Craig Wing
7. Eddie Paea
8. Luke Stuart
9. Issac Luke
10. Roy Asotasi
11. David Kidwell
12. David Fa'alogo
13. John Sutton
14. Dean Widders
15. Ben Rogers
16. Manase Manuokafoa
17. Michael Greenfield
18. Scott Geddes
19. Jaiman Lowe
20. Daniel Irvine
21. Eddy Pettybourne
22. Sam Huihahau
23. Shannan McPherson
24. Jeremy Smith
25. Beau Champion

Pretty good ratio considering all that has gone on at Souths of late.

 

[Raider_69]

1. Zillman
2. Monaghan
3. Graham
4. Best
5. Goodwin - Poached from the sharks at Flegg level
6. Carney
7. Dobson
8. Logan
9. Withers
10. Thompson
11. Costigan
12. Learoyd-Lahrs
13. Tongue

14. Thurling
15. Turner
16. Tilse
17. Picker

Weyman
Miller
Plum
Hinchcliffe
Milne
Purtell
Kelly
Herbert
Chalk
Campese
Jones

 

[nqboy]

Bowen, Williams, Farrar, Tronc, Payne, Scott, Southern, Bolton, Vaeau, there may be others.

 

[Bazal]

Ben Farrar was an Eels Junior on the cusp of first grade when he signed with NQLD, and I believe Southern is an ex Dragon and Vaeau an ex Bronco...

 

[tiger_nick]

out of sydney teams are always going to have large numbers in this case. wests tigers do pretty well for a sydney club i think, mainly cause we never buy anyone of note

 

[thommo4pm]

Ben Farrar was an Eels Junior on the cusp of first grade when he signed with NQLD, and I believe Southern is an ex Dragon and Vaeau an ex Bronco...

Correct, Steve Southern is a Dragons junior, from Dapto if I'm not mistaken.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Also, Ben Farrar went to the Dogs before he went to the Cows.

 

[nqcowboy87]

ricky throby was a kiwi and played up in fnq for innisfail(i played agaisnt him a couple of times)
also shane tronc is in the brisbane cathment area as he is a redcliffe junior who went to dogs when he was young came back up to the dolphins and then the cows

 

[stuke]

Jarryd Hayne
Kris Inu
Eric Grothe (although 'technically' a Wests Jnr I guess)
Ben Smith
Tim Smith
Nathan Cayless
Nathan Hindmarsh
Chad Robinson (I think?)
Matt Keating

Off the top of my head

add Luke Burt.

he grew up in Redhead but Parra had him all the way through the juniors. they got him down there to play U/16s i think.

 

[Canard]

Justin Hodges is a Crushers Junior originally, not Broncos.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Newcastle would have had the best number of juniors once. But in recent years the club has become just as mercinary as the Sydney clubs and now with Smith at the helm that is only getting worse. Funny thing is when we were mostly local we won two comps. Now we're struggling to get off the bottom of the ladder.

This thread raises the question: should the NRL look at some policies that rewards clubs that produce locals or helps them keep them? I think RL needs to keep this local element. The day we become like soccer or the NFL with few if any plateys in any given club from the area in which they play is the day we really lose our soul and become nothing more than a homogenised professional product.