Reece Hewat? Tuiana Tuilima? Sam Edwards? Calvin Pritchard? I heard all these players and more missed out on tight selections. Maybe with a few more games pre the championships, the players wouldve been able to fully develop their individual games before going away and trialing for the highest honour, aus schoolboys.
Hewat is a good point, so is Pritchard - though I hear Pritchard hurt himself throughout the trials, so may have played worse than his usual standard. But besides physicality in defence and attack, he doesn't bring any real ball-playing to the spot - without knowing what the coaches are looking for in that particular position it's pretty hard to knock the selections.
We're at a disadvantage up north because we don't get the chance to look at the other options or performance at the championships. I started a new thread in the Schoolboys section, called "Australian Schoolboys 2014", so this should probably all be re-directed there..
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