Halfback Ethan Sanders, Prop Sam Tuivaiti and Back-Rower Charlie Guymer have been selected in the NSW under 19's team. Congradulations to each of them, talented players. Hope all three get game time in Cup by years end and push for FG in 2024.
https://www.zerotackle.com/fainu-brothers-headline-nsw-blues-u19s-team-158860/
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Talagi may of got a spot at centre if he wasn't injured.
Penisini will probably get a shot next year
Same with Matt Arthur, i expect him to be in Cup next year, that surely gets him a spot in under 19's.
The front rower is very impressive
Don't tell me there's not enough talent for a rookie draft.
Brett, in all fairness why do we need a rookie draft? If the nrl pumped quality funds into nrl / juniors and backed it up with coaching we'd be ok.
Clubs need to look after themselves for me, as a few are badly run.
I've written about this a number of times, but a draft will ensure the best young talent goes to the clubs that need it most. Remember, the league is only as strong as its weakest clubs.
A draft by itself doesn't solve much I admit, but as part of a larger revamp of the games whole labour management processes, it's an imperative.
My point was that I hear all the time that there isn't enough young talent for a rookie draft, which is patently untrue.
Furthermore, if teams were forced to look to the draft as the best means for improvement, it will have a deflationary effect on player salaries, which will leave more cap space for middle of the road players. Right now, it's estimated that 30% of the playing population takes over 85% of the game's collective cap space. That 30% is made up of the elite rep level talent and young unproven talent that clubs are forced to pay massive overs to attract or keep, which leaves very little for the middle 70%, the leagues middle class, the group which gives the game its playing depth. The salary cap without a draft squeezes out those mid level players.
A player draft doesn't fix incompetent coaching.
Clubs like the Tigers would be relying on a teenager to dig them out of a hole that more than a decade of mismanagement has got them into.
Furthermore it introduces tanking as a possibility. We've had two teams concede in excess of 60 points on the weekend, could you imagine if they were trying to actually lose games?
And as for not enough talent for a draft. How may of those Under 19s players will end up with an NRL career longer than two seasons? It's not about how many make it to the NRL, but how many actually have a career in the NRL.
Out of a 29 player NSW Under 18s squad from 2017 only 9 have ended up with an NRL career.
When i was in late High School, so around 2010-2013 when i started getting into the behind the scenes media of the game, i was all for a draft.
Now i am actually against, for the reason that it will jsut cause issues in general. For it to work, you need to take these schools and junior clubs away from their feeder clubs, so like Cabramatta is affiliated with Parramatta, you have to try and fund them to stand on their own so no club has a right to pursue those players.
Added to that is the left over players? What age do you draft them at? As some players will get to 19-20 and never been in an NRL system before, go undrafted and their development is done finished. Unless you draft them at 18 and have them in the system and those undrafted can go into a system at 18 if good enough.
Tuivita is still 18 years old so is playing a year above
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