Most hyped youngster that went nowhere?

[T-Boon]

French is sh!t never rated him too small only looked good in the 9’s

i remember Penrith fans saying Waqa Blake should be picked for origin in his rookie season

French was/is fast and skillful and evasive and entertaining as hell but he doesn't have the physicality you need to play NRL these days as there are no positions for average sized humans. That is a massive weakness for the code requiring rule changes.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

i remember the fight to get jackson nicolau off the storms books as he was getting groomed to replace scott hill down there and the massive buzz about this wonder kid coming to NQ. 2 games and was rubbish

 

[wittyfan]

Sam Walker

 

[Fangs]

Jarrod Sammut was a bit like this.

Absolutely tore up schoolboys but got dominated by the men.

 

[Bazal]

Why is this thread still going two people have already answered the question.

Karl Filiga. No contest

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Daniel Mortimer
Lachlan Lewis


Any warriors forward who played in their under 20s side.

 

[Wizardman]

According to Knights management, Greg Smith...lol. I don't know the full story about that saga but the Knights clearly didn't do their homework on him. For him to get a first grade appearance based on the words of a total stranger baffles my mind. I hope someone tries to find him for an interview at some point...lol.

 

[6 more kfc buckets]

Not sure if he was gun youngster but whatever happened to Nathan Peats?
He was hailed as the next champion beach sprinter.

 

[Bazal]

Not sure if he was gun youngster but whatever happened to Nathan Peats?
He was hailed as the next champion beach sprinter.

He broke about 8 of his shoulders

Which is especially concerning because humans tend to only have two

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Ash Taylor, now that he’s retired.

 

[SBD82]

What about that dragons hooker that was the next cam smith
What is Mitch Rein?

people were on him for years as the next big thing and he just bounced around clubs as a back up

Cameron King.

The kid had everything. Except knees that could stand the rigours of being a professional athlete

 

[The Predictor]

Had a good season under madge, and decided to show everyone how much of a pea heart he was! Good riddence, from the tigers and fingers crossed, the nrl.

Nasty!!

 

[The Predictor]

Mitchell Moses

Your an idiot…..

 

[simmo05]

Your an idiot…..

Ead

 

[looseforward]

Ask any roosters fan old enough to be around when Ryan Matterson was in the SG Ball side. Every fan that saw him play thought he was going to be an absolute superstar. Bloke never even cut it in U20s.

a couple of kind of controversial ones as they had good careers, but they were genuine “next immortal” players in flegg and reserve grade - Sam Perrett and Jamie Soward.

Perrett looked like Billy Slater in flegg. Kid was untouchable at fullback. Never able to step up in that role in firsts but transitioned to a safe as houses if not flashy winger.

Soward basically just scored at will in Flegg, and even in Reggie’s it looked almost unfair to have him in the side as he just f**king carved up teams. Mind you if he didn’t have racist old Stuart stifling the first 4 years of his career he may have found his straps earlier. Thankfully he got a reprieve moving to an actual good coach in the Bennett who got full use out of him (who IMO was in his coaching prime at the dragons)

I take it you mean Ryan Williamson not Ryan Matterson given Matterson didn’t get to the chooks until first grade. The hype on Williamson was insane across all the forums back in the day.

 

[Vic Mackey]

Jermaine Ale. Heavily touted by Raiders fans and played a total of 4 games which showed how shit he truly was.

i remember when Canberra had that shit hot reserve grade side about 15 years ago where apparently every player was going to be a gun and no one did anything.

 

[Vic Mackey]

i remember Penrith fans saying Waqa Blake should be picked for origin in his rookie season

The Panthers were going to have a dynasty with Blake, Moylan, DWZ, Cartwright, RCG, CHN, Egan, etc, who was that other shit prop they ended up shipping to the GC?

 

[Wizardman]

The Panthers were going to have a dynasty with Blake, Moylan, DWZ, Cartwright, RCG, CHN, Egan, etc, who was that other shit prop they ended up shipping to the GC?

Simpkins?

 

[hineyrulz]

I know a super young half named Jakob, I wish he would go somewhere. And when he gets his licence he can take his dad as well.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Shannan Walker