Who is the best junior player you have seen ?

[Tank30]

A young guy named Fred Borg, was a 95kg 6ft halfback....The most naturally talented footballer I have seen in the lower grades...Wasn't too keen on training though...Played Ball for parra in 93 or 94.....

 

[parra pete]

definitely Brett.

That's what I thought too.

 

[parra pete]

Well i remember the reserve grade game tht day and Penna was scoring number of trys and the crowd was razzled.

Penna scored his 5 tries against South Sydney....

 

[parra-matters]

Yesp, we led 22-8, Sterlo was on fire, then Brisbane came back and won 24-22 infront of a capacity crowd.

I was only ten but that match stands out as one of my favourites.

Leeds also that game i'm sure missed a goal from in front and dropped a few bombs.

Leeds missed Terry Matterson one on one 30mtrs out that led to a try.
that was the turning point in that game, Liddard off Leeds on.

 

[parra-matters]

Penna scored his 5 tries against South Sydney....

Yep at the SFS.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Penna scored his 5 tries against South Sydney....

Then he must have scored 4? but hang on? Brisbane do not even have a reserve grade or premier league side? who was he scroing those trys gainst then? :lol:

 

[HevyDevy]

Yesp, we led 22-8, Sterlo was on fire, then Brisbane came back and won 24-22 infront of a capacity crowd.

I was only ten but that match stands out as one of my favourites.

Leeds also that game i'm sure missed a goal from in front and dropped a few bombs.

Ha! I still remember the day we led Brisbane 14-6 at half-time ... and lost 60-14!

 

[parra-matters]

Ha! I still remember the day we led Brisbane 14-6 at half-time ... and lost 60-14!

Yeah I was there that day, someone woke up Alfie Langer at half time.

 

[parra pete]

Then he must have scored 4? but hang on? Brisbane do not even have a reserve grade or premier league side? who was he scroing those trys gainst then? :lol:

Penna scored his 5 in President's Cup in 1990 against South Sydney....

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Penna scored his 5 in President's Cup in 1990 against South Sydney....

Yes, but as that game the same day as the Brisbane game in 1990?
I'm certain it was, could be wrong though...

 

[parra pete]

Yesp, we led 22-8, Sterlo was on fire, then Brisbane came back and won 24-22 infront of a capacity crowd.

I was only ten but that match stands out as one of my favourites.

Leeds also that game i'm sure missed a goal from in front and dropped a few bombs.

I vividly recall that match. We had our Motel then, and I was working in the office so I refused to listen to the game and waited until it came on TV..I remember my youngest daughter (she would have been 12 or 13) coming out when Leeds was lining up a kick on full time to draw the game and saying "Dad, don't go crook on him if he misses"...Talk about killing the moment..
She had been listening to the game on the radio earlier in the afternoon
Life is a bundle of laughs isn't it. "What ye sow, so shall ye reap"

 

[parra pete]

Yes, but as that game the same day as the Brisbane game in 1990?
I'm certain it was, could be wrong though...

Ron, you know how much it hurts me to tell you are wrong..but I can't spare you the pain on this occasion. Mate you are wrong..Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. ;-) :lol:

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Ron, you know how much it hurts me to tell you are wrong..but I can't spare you the pain on this occasion. Mate you are wrong..Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. ;-) :lol:

I'm not saying it was the game, what i'm saying is that were Parramatta playing Souths in the Presidents Cup match that day before the Brisbane game, just remember Penna having a blinder that's all.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

I vividly recall that match. We had our Motel then, and I was working in the office so I refused to listen to the game and waited until it came on TV..I remember my youngest daughter (she would have been 12 or 13) coming out when Leeds was lining up a kick on full time to draw the game and saying "Dad, don't go crook on him if he misses"...Talk about killing the moment..
She had been listening to the game on the radio earlier in the afternoon
Life is a bundle of laughs isn't it. "What ye sow, so shall ye reap"

It was a great game, how we lost it i have no idea!

 

[parra pete]

I'm not saying it was the game, what i'm saying is that were Parramatta playing Souths in the Presidents Cup match that day before the Brisbane game, just remember Penna having a blinder that's all.

Don't know...I couldn't imagine it though (ie playing the Rabbitohs as a curtain raiser to the Bronc's)
Are you sure the Bronco's didn't have a reserve grade team at the time?

 

[mackdadday]

Had high hopes for Dallas Weston when he was a bear. Damaging runner but couldnt hold onto the ball...

 

[Bow_rider]

definitely Brett.

No mate.Brett was a centre and Darrens younger brother.Darren was a lock in the lower grades.Brett was a very good centre but a couple of years younger than Grothe and Ella

 

[Freak2]

Feliti Mateo is the best Parra junior I can recall.

I remember going to the World Sevens one year and watching Mateo play in an exhibition match for his school Terrasencta College. OH MY GOD!!!

I contacted our clubs junior development officer at the time and asked him which club this kid was linked too.

My joy when told he was an Eel was on show for the entire SFS!!!

However IMO the best junior of all time was a fellow by the name of Owen Craegie!!

 

[The Colonel]

that would be joe delana... a fijian boy! was an australian school boy FB and 5/8...unreal talent. Out of the blue parra gave him the flick...he went to souths and spiralled nowhere! think he played PL or 1 nrl?
then went to unio now nothing....
parra ruined him

That is him. Was an amazing talent. Fantastic young player in the lower grades. Not much of a defender but damn he could score from anywhere.

 

[Gronk]

Originally Posted by parra pete
Penna scored his 5 tries against South Sydney....

Yep at the SFS.

I was there. I'm pretty sure that it was Presidents Cup. Something tells me that he came on in Reggies and scored another one ?