QLD Premier Rugby 2025

[Bulldog]

Interesting question - I would really like to see the attrition rate of the blokes who start playing colts at Uni?

As a snapshot, I had a look at the Premier Grade Team lists from Saturday to see who was an ex-University Colt, and also who was an ex-West's Colt playing elsewhere; Sunnybank - Taine Riori (Ex-Wests Colt); Norths - Harrison Swane (Ex-UQ Colt); Easts - Angus Wagner & Dougal Grey; (Ex-UQ Colt) Alex Smit (Ex Wests Colt) ; Bond Uni - Matt Englebrecht (Ex-UQ Colts); Brothers - Jake Sargood (Ex-Wests Colt) - Wests - Isaac Henry, Jack Spencer and Moses Sorovi (Ex UQ Colts) -UQ themselves had Lachie Pheely, Dougal Perrers and Flynn McDermott who are all former UQ colts players coming through their system playing for them; Wests had Edan Zuapa, Zac Hough and Jack Spencer as colts who have come through the Wests Colts program. So it seems from this small sample, UQ has lost more colts talent than Wests but both sides had only 3 former colts in the Premier grade teams on the weekend.

I don’t think Angus Wagner played colts I think he may have headed to Force straight from Churchie - he played juniors at Easts whilst boarding at Churchie.
Happy to be corrected on this one.

 

[hdnmstsnr]

I would be surprised if anyone went to Japan in the next few weeks as the season over there is almost done

Japan runs a 2nd tier regional comp in the latter half of our season, with decent remuneration ($80-$120k) for international players. The comp also acts as a showcase/foot in the door for top-tier season 2026 hopefuls.

 

[MoneyBill685]

I would have loved to see what the odds were paying before the start of the season, having both Souths and Norths in the top four and Wests in 6th after 5 rounds. It's far too early to call that Wests are going to struggle to make the finals, but for all the influx of new coaches and players, the excellent facilities, etc, they still have not found a way to win the tight ones like they used to. Does anyone have any insights as to why? I have no idea who is getting paid what, or how much has been invested in the rugby program, but it seems money doesn't guarantee success. One would expect Wests to defeat Sunnybank next weekend, but if they don't, there will be some serious gnashing of teeth at Sylvan Road.

Wests were paying around $2.60 on Ladbrokes before the season to win the comp.

 

[PhilClinton]

Japan runs a 2nd tier regional comp in the latter half of our season, with decent remuneration ($80-$120k) for international players. The comp also acts as a showcase/foot in the door for top-tier season 2026 hopefuls.

Is that still happening? I thought that got changed when the 'League One' was launched a few years ago now and they shifted to a Division 1 and 2 model instead of multiple tiers.