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Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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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.
 

fatprop

George Gregan (70)
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This thread is getting a hole lot of stupids at the moment

Was there a special sale on tin foil hats somewhere?
 

fatprop

George Gregan (70)
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I agree that Latu is more physically capable than Roach at this stage hence being choose ahead of him. But I see Roach going past Latu in the long run, hopefully at the Tahs. Its good to have both of them as they are both looking like good prospects.

Only if he has late growth spurt

Good, mobile young player, but size wise

Jury is out
 

Ash

Michael Lynagh (62)
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.

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.
 

I like to watch

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.
 

GaffaCHinO

Peter Sullivan (51)
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.
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.
 

GaffaCHinO

Peter Sullivan (51)
I'm fairly sure that wasn't the case. He was in the 7s program and they don't take school students.
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.
 

Braveheart81

Will Genia (78)
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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.
 

qwerty51

Stirling Mortlock (74)
Yeah but I'm sure I remember the commentators mentioning he was still in school when he debuted.
 

Pfitzy

Nathan Sharpe (72)
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.

Maybe he was a dickhead back then too?
 

Hawko

Tony Shaw (54)
Or are you just pissed the galloping greens have taken a foot out of the Brumbies camp and brought it back home to the Tahs? I'd blame Jake, Cheika's timing is just coincidental.

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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