Waratahs 2015
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All this talk of wanting Kellaway to get Shute Shield experience etc. before he's offered any sort of contract at the Tahs is fairly unrealistic in my view. Do that, and we'll be watching him play elsewhere.
Since I finished high school, there have been four high school rugby players in Australia who have been picked out early as future stars and their junior careers have been closely watched by all and sundry waiting for them to mature. Those players would be Matt Giteau, Kurtley Beale, James O'Connor and Andrew Kellaway.
Kellaway has been an absolute standout and continues to excel at each level. I think he'll play a fair bit of Super Rugby next year and will play for the Wallabies within a couple of years.
Since I finished high school, there have been four high school rugby players in Australia who have been picked out early as future stars and their junior careers have been closely watched by all and sundry waiting for them to mature. Those players would be Matt Giteau, Kurtley Beale, James O'Connor and Andrew Kellaway.
Kellaway has been an absolute standout and continues to excel at each level. I think he'll play a fair bit of Super Rugby next year and will play for the Wallabies within a couple of years.
We've swapped tin for copper foil hats.
That way they go a nice shade of Randwick green when the oxidize.
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Michael Lynagh (62)
JOC (James O'Connor)? No way was he watched more than a couple of his contemporaries in the schools team at the time. I think that I recall him playing a fair bit off the bench in school rep teams. Cooper, for example, I thought was much more hyped than JOC (James O'Connor) from high school.
Going back a few years in Queensland, there have been a few high school stars that have stood out that were watched closely in Queensland. Flatley, KHunt, and Peter Hynes are three that I remember.
Beale would have to be the most hyped school kid that I can recall in NSW.
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David Codey (61)
JOC (James O'Connor) went from a Schoolboy straight into Soup footy.Very few do that.
Don't understand how it happened,as you say he was not a star in the National team.
Don't understand how it happened,as you say he was not a star in the National team.
boyo
Mark Ella (57)
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David Wilson (68)
I thought Hooper was signed by the Brumbies directly from school, but could be wrong on this.
GaffaCHinO
Peter Sullivan (51)
JOC (James O'Connor) was still in school I think you will find when he made his debut he was at hale here In Perth.
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Geoff Shaw (53)
I'm fairly sure that wasn't the case. He was in the 7s program and they don't take school students.
GaffaCHinO
Peter Sullivan (51)
Hmm I can't find it anywhere but I'm sure he attended hale for abit when he moved here it was a big thing about how he was a school sensation. I may be wrong though.
en_force_er
Geoff Shaw (53)
Qld school finishes a year early, just because they're 17 does not mean they were still in school.
Anyway, regardless of how much hype there was around JOC (James O'Connor) before he played Super Rugby, my point stands about Andrew Kellaway.
There's been a lot of talk regarding him for a fair while and it's on par with a select few players who turned into pretty useful Wallabies.
There's been a lot of talk regarding him for a fair while and it's on par with a select few players who turned into pretty useful Wallabies.
Richo
John Thornett (49)
That'll happen when you switch schools every time you get busted for not handing in an assignment.
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Tony Shaw (54)
In the pile of poo that is the Cheika/Randwick discussion this gem sparked my brain cells - the thought that the regular pathway from Randwick to the Brumbies might have dried up because of the appalling gameplan that is Jakeball, the game you play when you can't play rugby. Jakeball is anathema to the Randwick game and this may just be the thing that will keep the best and brightest from that team from heading down the Hume for a game and keep them up here in their spiritual home.
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