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Former Mackay junior rugby league player Carn Connell made his debut on the Gold Coast on Sunday for the Southport U18 Division One side starting at five eight in their 16-14 loss to Helensvale.
In 2018 for the Mackay Magpies, Carn Connell who is still U18 eligible in 2020 was part of the Magpies side that won the Mackay U16 Grand Final 18-12 over Wanderers.
Powerful young Southport player Taelon Te Whiu-Hopa had a good start to his 2019 rugby league campaign scoring for Southport in their 26 – 6 U14 Division One victory over Helensvale.
In 2018 he was the U13 Division One’s second leading try scored with 22 tries from just 12 matches.
Former Goondiwindi centre Hugh Wilkes made his GCRL debut on the weekend in Round One of the U18 Division One competition starting in the centres for Southport as they went down 16-14 to Helensvale.
In 2018 Hugh Wiles played in seventeen matches for Goondiwindi in the Toowoomba Rugby League U18 competition, including scoring in three consecutive rounds mid-season with those matches being against Highfields and Districts, Gatton and Brothers Toowoomba.
Hugh Wilkes also played in one TRL Reserve Grade match in 2018 with that match being against Brothers Toowoomba in June 2018.
Manaurewa New Zealand youngster Quiahn Pritchard made the most of his first match on the Gold Coast on the weekend, coming off the bench and scoring for the Ormeau Shearers in their 28-12 win over a strong Nerang Roosters side in the U18 Division One competition.
Former Townsville hooker Mitchel Yow came off the bench in Round One of the GCRL U18 Division One competition on Sunday for Southport in their two point loss to Helensvale.
Mitchel Yow who is still U18 eligible in 2020, comes to the Tigers with a couple of impressive seasons behind him in the Townsville junior rugby league competition.
In 2018 Mitchel Yow started at hooker for Centrals Black in their 30-12 U16 Grand Final loss to Centrals Gold. Over the course of the Townsville U16 season in 2018, Mitchel Yow played in fifteen matches, including the finals series, scoring five tries to finish the season with a strike rate of 33%.
Mitchel Yow’s tries came against Burdekin twice, Townsville Brothers, Charters Towers and the Western Lions.
Big strong young Hayden Mills started in the front row for Southport in Round One of the GCRL U18 Division One competition on the weekend, his first match on the Gold Coast since moving from Moree.
In 2018, for the Moree Boars in the Group 19 competition, Hayden Mills played in both the U16 and U18 competitions.
In the Group 19 U18 competition, Hayden Mills played in six matches, not bad at all for a 16 year old playing in the front row.
In the Group 19 U16 competition Hayden Mills was impressive in the eight matches that he played, scoring seven tries.
Hayden Mills scored doubles against the Inverell Hawks and Glen Innes Magpies and also scored in other matches against the Glenn Innes Magpies twice and the Warialda Wombats.
In previous seasons, Hayden Mills has been a regular Group 19 under age representative.
Hooker or second rower Yorel Alapaki has moved over from Auckland to play in 2019 with the Southport Tigers in the Gold Coast Rugby League U18 Division One competition, starting Round One at hooker as the Tigers went down by two points to Helensvale.
In 2018 Yorel Alapaki played in the Auckland Junior Rugby League U16 competition for Marist Saints. 2018 also saw Yorel Alapaki, who is also an accomplished softball player, represent Howick College in the 2018 New Zealand National Secondary Schools Development Tournament.
In that tournament, Yorel Alapaki played in five matches with those matches being against Sir Edmund Hillary College, Onehunga High School twice, Naenae College and Whangaparaoe College. Yorel Alapaki started all five matches at lock for Howick College and scored in both finals matches being against Onehunga High School and Whangaparaoe College.
Late in 2018 Yorel Alapaki was the co-captain of the Auckland Niue U16 side that played an Auckland U16 side, starting that match in the second row. In 2018 Yorel Alapaki was also captain of the Northern side in the New Zealand Development Rugby League Finals held in March.
Yorel Alapaki also represented the Cook Islands in the U18 Rugby League Oceania Sevens tournament scoring against the Solomon Islands in Round Four.
In 2017 Yorel Alapaki represented the Akarana Falcons U15’s at the New Zealand National Age Championships playing in matches against the Auckland Vulcans and the Northern Swords.
First night of the Titans schools cup on tonight.
Former Penrith Districts junior rugby league centre Matari Donovan made his regular season debut on the weekend starting in the centres for Burleigh on the weekend in Round One of the GCRL U14 Division One competition as the Bears defeated Runaway Bay 48-0.
Interesting to see Repoama Morris-Ponga start in the second row for Runaway Bay in the weekend in Round five of the GCRL U20 competition in their 36-18 win over Mudgeeraba, he had in fact started the first three rounds of the competition with Burleigh.
Good to see Zane Prophet back on the field for Ormeau in their Round Six Doug Lipp Cup match, it was huis first game since Round One when he scored against Runaway Bay.
Titans contracted centre Shannon Subritzky-Stewart and his Norths Devils team mates had a big win in Round One of the GBJRL U15 Division One competition, defeating Redlands 40-16 on Sunday.
The Norths Devils centre signed a contract with the Titans early in 2019 after being part of the one of the Titans two U15 sides that played each other and a Western Mustangs at Mudgeeraba in February of this year.
Shannon Subritzky-Stewart is currently a member of the 2019 U15 Emerging Origin squad and in 2018 was part of the South East Queensland White U14 side that took part in the Queensland U14 Age Championships, scoring in Round Two in a SEQ White 22 – 12 win over Central.
In 2018 Shannon Subritzky-Stewart played for the Norths Devils in the GBJRL U14 Premier Division competition including starting in the centres for the Nundah based side in the Grand Final but unfortunately they went down 26 – 20 to an Easts Tigers side that included fellow 2019 Titans U15 signee, winger Antioch Faitala-Mariner.
Former Tingha Tigers second rower Tyler Kent moved up to the Gold Coast and was named in the Burleigh Bears 2019 MM Cup side and came off the bench in their final match of the season.
Post the MM Cup competition Tyler Kent started Round One of the GCRL U18 Division One competition in the front row for Burleigh in their match against Currumbin.
Tyler Kent played the 2018 season in the New South Wales Country Group 19 competition for Tingha spending time in both the U18 and First Grade competitions, for all intents and purposes playing in the U18 match and then backing up to start in the First Grade match every weekend.
Tyler Kent started the 2018 season as part of the Greater Northern Tigers U18 Laurie Daley Cup squad playing all five of their matches including their tough 32 – 26 semi-final loss to Group 9. Tyler Kent started all five matches from the interchange bench.
For Tingha in the U18 Group 19 competition, Tyler Kent played in twelve matches scoring five tries and kicking a goal (against Inverell) to finish the season with 22 points.
Tyler Kent started in the second row in the U18 Group 19 Grand Final and scored as the Tigers went down 28 – 18 to the Moree Boomerangs.
In addition to his U18 Grand Final try Tyler Kent scored in the regular season against the Moree Boars in two separate matches, the Glenn Innes Magpies and the Armidale Rams, with the last two tries coming in consecutive rounds mid-way through the season.
Tyler Kent played in eleven Group 19 First Grade matches scoring on debut against the Moree Boars and also kicked a conversion against the Moree Boomerangs.
Tyler Kent has also represented Group 19 in previous years in the U14, U15 and U16 age groups.
Former Shalom College Bundaberg student Jai Smith has moved down to the Gold Coast and started Burleigh’s final MM Cup trial against the Tweed Heads Seagulls from the bench but did not featured in any of their “regular” seasons matches.
Jai Smith started Round One of the Gold Coast Rugby League U18 Division One competition on the bench for Burleigh in their match against Currumbin.
In 2018 Jai Smith played for Brothers in the Bundaberg U18 Rugby League competition, playing in eight matches in total.
Jai Smith was also a stand out for Shalom College co-captaining the side from lock and was named as his team’s best player at the 2018 Confraternity Shield.
Jai Smith also has some International rugby league experience already, starting all three of the Serbian sides matches in the 2018 European Rugby League U19 competition at five eight. The sides that Jai Smith played against were Ireland, Ukraine and England with Serbia having a good win against Ukraine.
Jack Smith started Round One of the GCRL U18 Division One at fullback for his new club being the Currumbin Eagles in their match against Burleigh where he was opposed by fellow Titan Will Evans.
The young utility late in 2018 signed a scholarship with the Titans from the Forbes Spacemen after playing for the New South Wales Country U16 side against a Titans U16 squad at Cudgen and is attending PBC this year.
Jack Smith started from the bench for the New South Wales Country side in the match with New South Wales Country running out 30 – 10 winners. Jake Smith was also part of the New South Wales Country U16 side that defeated PNG U16’s a couple of days earlier in Ballina in Northern New South Wales as a precursor to the match against the Titans.
Playing in the Group 11 competition for the Parkes Spacemen in 2018 Jack Smith played in both the U16 and U18 competitions over the course of the 2018 season. In the U16 competition Jack Smith spent time at fullback including starting the Grand Final at fullback. Jack Smith also played eight U18 matches scoring a hat trick in his first career U18 match against Dubbo Macquarie.
Jack Smith was also part of the 2018 victorious Western Rams U18 Laurie Daley Cup side and started at lock as they defeated Illawarra South Coast Dragons in the final. Jack Smith started all seven of the matches that he was involved in and scored three tries, including a double against the Wests Tigers and in Round Two he scored against the Riverina Bulls.
In 2017 Jake Smith was selected at fullback for the New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges side from Red Bend Catholic College starting all of the matches that he played in during the ASSRL U15 Championships.
n Round Eight of the Queensland Cup Ioane Seuili played left centre for the third match in a row for Tweed Heads against the Ipswich Jets and as usual played the entire 80 minutes. In that time he ran for 78 metres (35 post contact), made a line break, played the ball at an average of 3.42 seconds and made three tackles at a 75% tackling efficiency.
In Round Eight of the Queensland Cup Tremain Spry played right centre and scored his fourth try of the season for Tweed Heads against the Ipswich Jets and as usual played the entire 80 minutes. In that time he ran for 84 metres (25 post contact), broke two tackles, had a line break assist, played the ball at an average of 3.05 seconds and made three tackles.
Well done to Titan Darius Farmer for being named in the Gold Coast Vikings A Grade training squad.
Tweed's MM Cup Grand Final side
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2019/04/30/auswide-bank-mal-meninga-cup-grand-final-teams/
Mr Bods
30-04-19, 06:46 PM
Mdrew who is going to be a better player-Deardon or Taylor??
Different types of players mate, Tom Dearden will take the line on more. Tom Dearden has outstanding potential and time will tell, but for me their careers will be a mirror of each other in terms of achievements.
Mdrew who is going to be a better player-Deardon or Taylor??
There are some talented players named in the GC Vikings U20 side including Daniel Shannon, Stanley Ferani, Oshea Hannaway, George Santos-Motuapoaku and Jock Sullivan amongst others
Highlights of Titans linked Jayden Campbell, Prestons son.
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2019/04/30/auswide-bank-mal-meninga-cup-grand-final-teams/
Burleigh fullback O’Shea Hannaway maintained his 100% strike rate by scoring on the weekend in Round Five of the local U20 competition in their 60-12 win over Southport.
Good to see Titans contracted Jed Edwards at the launch of the Broncos schoolboys challenge recently, he is one of two co-captains.
Another player new to the Gold Coast is former Hamilton Boys High student Demante Murray who last year kicked the winning penalty goal in the NZ Super 8 schools final to defeat Napier Boys High 23-22.
He started in the centres for the Burleigh U18 Division Two side in Round One last weekend.
Former Gold Coast District rugby player Tahu Bluegum has moved over to rugby league and started Round One of the GCRL U16 Division One competition from the bench for Ormeau as they defeated Currumbin 26-6.
In 2018 Tahu Bluegum played fourteen matches for the Helensvale Hogs in the GCRU U15 competition, starting thirteen of those matches, splitting time between No. 6 and No. 8.
He started the Grand Final at No.6 but Helensvale went down 47-19 to the Griffith University Hogs.
Former Titans junior development squad member Oliver Singh continues to find his feet in the NRRRL First Grade competition, in Round Four kicking four from four as his Tweed Coast Raiders side defeated Mullumbimby 24-14 in Round Four on the weekend.
TSS outside back Jack Poidevin started in the centres for Mudgeeraba in Round One of the U16 Division One competition in their 38-16 loss to Runaway Bay.
In 2018 Jack Poidevin played for the TSS U15B side and also played club rugby on the Gold Coast for the Surfers Dolphins.
Lismore Marist Brothers Luke Davis has had an outstanding start to the 2019 U18 NRRRL competition and currently has a 200% strike rate through the opening four rounds of the competition.
In Round Four last weekend against Evans Head he scored four tries in a big 58 – 0 win.
Earlier in the season Luke Davis scored a double in Round Two against Tweed Coast and also scored a Round Three double against Casino RSM.
Former Western Australian youngster Jaquan Mahu has moved over to the Gold Coast and started Round One of the GCRL U16 Division One competition in the bench for Runaway Bay in their 38-16 win over Mudgeeraba.
In 2018 Jaquan Mahu played in the Western Australian U15 competition for the Ellenbrook Rabbitohs and in his seven matches scored against the Freemantle Roosters, playing primarily in the centres.
In 2018 Jaquan Mahu was part of the Western Australian U15 school boy side that played in the U15 ASSRL Emerging States competition, scoring on Day One against Victoria and also scoring on Day Four against the Northern Territory.
Also in 2018 he played in two club rugby matches in the WA U15 rugby competition, starting both matches for Perth Bayswater.
Ballina’s Domenic Lisetto made his NRRRL Reserve Grade debut over the weekend in Round Four, he has also played in the four rounds of the NRRRL U18 competition this season, scoring against Casino RSM.
Burleigh Hastings Deering’s Colts squad member Latrelle Howe had a big match in Round Five of the GCRL U20 competition scoring a hat trick from five eight in Burleigh’s 60-12 win over Southport.
Recently Latrelle Howe was also selected in the Gold Coast Vikings U20 side for the South East Queensland U20 Challenge.
Burleigh Hastings Deering’s Colts squad member Latrelle Howe had a big match in Round Five of the GCRL U20 competition scoring a hat trick from five eight in Burleigh’s 60-12 win over Southport.
Recently Latrelle Howe was also selected in the Gold Coast Vikings U20 side for the South East Queensland U20 Challenge.
Ballina Coast High School (the Titans have a partnership with the school) student Kuyan Roberts-Laurie was busy again on the weekend playing in both the NRRRL U18 and First Grade matches. The First Grade match was his third through the opening four rounds.
Earlier this month Kuyan Roberts-Laurie was named Ballina Coast’s best forward in a big win against Kingscliff High School.
Casino RSM fullback (and Keebra Park) Lachlan West continues to perform well in the U18 NRRRL competition, in Round Four on the weekend he scored a try and kicked two goals as Casino defeated Lower Clarence 24-22. He now has 32 points through four matches from two tries and twelve goals.
Lower Clarence second rower Cooper Many continues to be an intriguing prospect and was one of Lower Clarence’s try scorers in Round Four of the U18 NRRRL competition in their two point loss to Casino RSM.
Byron Bay half Malachi Roberts continues to enhance his reputation in the U18 NRRRL competition, and on the weekend in Round Four added a try and a goal to his 2019 points tally ,unfortunately his side went down 26-10 to Cudgen.
Result from Round One of the various Gold Coast Titans School boy competitions, Round Two is tonight (sorry posted previously it was last night) Apologies for the formatting.
Titans Challenge Round One:
Trinity College 60 Windaroo 4
Beenleigh SHS (1) 20 Beenleigh SHS (2) 0
Stretton College 20 Beenleigh SHS (3) 0
Chisholm College 14 St Francis College 44
Marymount College 0 Coombabah SHS (1) 38
Coombabah SHS (2) 42 Robina SHS 12
Titans Cup Round One:
Marymount College 18 Keebra Park 12
Beenleigh SHS 4 Aquinas College 12
Titans Shield Round One:
Trinity College 50 Windaroo SHS 4
Beenleigh SHS (1) 28 Beenleigh SHS (2) 24
Chisholm College 42 St Francis College 12
Marymount College 16 Keebra Park 14
St Michaels 12 Robina SHS 24
Titans Trophy South Round One:
Marymount College 0 Keebra Park 40
St Michaels College 0 Robina SHS 22
Titans Trophy North Round One:
Trinity College 36 Windaroo SHS 4
Chisholm College 20 St Francis College 4
Izayah Petricevich who was part of the Titans U13 side that defeated the Western Mustangs in February at Mudgeeraba started a hooker for Nerang in Round One of the GCRL U13 Division One competition on the weekend, unfortunately the Roosters went down 26-6 to Ormeau.
In the Titans Schoolboy Cup competition last night Forest Lake State School defeated St Michael’s 44-4. The Forest Lake rugby league program is coming along very well.
In the Titans Schoolboy Cup competition last night Forest Lake State School defeated St Michael’s 44-4. The Forest Lake rugby league program is coming along very well.
Indeed it is Mdrew. Run by some pretty handy and knowledgeable coaches too. Will be interesting to see how it grows
In the Titans Challenge last night Robins SHS defeated Varsity College 38-6
QSSRL U15 Championships start today at Ipswich with South Coast taking on Met North this afternoon. Quite a few Titans contracted players in South Coat plus others in Met East and Met West
Titans contracted Orlando Swain and his Norths Ipswich team mates were successful last weekend in Round One of the Ipswich U16 competition 34-22 against the Fassifern Bombers with Orlando Swain scoring in the win.
South Coast defeated Met North 18-0 in the QSSRL U15 competition this afternoon.
Runaway Bay half Blake Sly had a big day on the weekend in Round Five of the GCRL U29 competition scoring 20 points as the Seagulls defeated Mudgeeraba 36-18.
In addition to kicking six from six he also scored two tries.
Good to see former Coombabah student (and school deux) Zac McCormick back on the field in the weekend in Round Five of the local U20 competition, when he came off the bench and scored for Burleigh in their big 60-12 win over Southport.
In the match Zac McCormick was simply outstanding and controlled the play very well for Burleigh as well as diving over from dummy half to score.
Helensvale U20 hooker Alex Drewe had a huge game in Round Five last weekend scoring 18 of the Hornets points in their loss to Currumbin. His 18 points came from a hat trick and three conversions.
Through five rounds Alex Drewe has now scored 40 points from five tries and ten goals.
Recently Alex Drewe was also selected in the Gold Coast Vikings U20 side for the South East Queensland U20 Challenge.
In his first season in the NRRRL U18 competition with his new club, Lismore Marist Brothers half Tyrelle Roberts had a break out match in Round Four scoring 18 points, made up of a try and seven goals as Lismore defeated Evans Head 58 – 0.
In 2018 Tyrelle Roberts played for the Northern Rivers in the U16 Andrew Johns Cup, starting at half back on all five of their matches scoring twenty two points in the process, coming from eleven goals, including three goals in matches against Newcastle, Central Coast and the Greater Northern Tigers.
Post the Andrew Johns Cup, Tyrelle Roberts went back to the Group One U16.5 competition, to play for Casino RSM.
Tyrelle Roberts finished the 2018 Group One U16.5 competition as its equal second leading try scorer (behind Titans stand out Ethan Foster), top goal kicker and leading point’s scorer, one in front of Ethan Foster.
In total in his thirteen Group One U16.5 matches in 2018 Tyrelle Roberts scored 140 points from eleven tries and forty eight goals.
Tyrelle Roberts scored a May hat trick against Ballina and scored an April double against Lismore Marist Brothers. He also scored tries against Clarence Coast twice, Lismore Marist Brothers and Ballina twice.
With the boot, Tyrelle Roberts kicked seven against Lismore Marist Brothers to score twenty two points in the match when you add in his double and Tyrelle Roberts kicked six goals in matches against Ballina and Kyogle. In the Ballina Tyrelle Roberts also scored a hat trick to finish the match with twenty four points.
At the completion of the 2018 season Tyrelle Roberts started at half for a Group One U16 side in a match at Cudgen against a Western Mustangs selection in a curtain raiser to a U15 match between the Titans and Balmain and scored one of the best tries that I have ever seen when he chipped twice from seventy metres out to score and exceptional try.
Powerful Lismore Marist Brothers lock Brody Jones backed up his try scoring Round Three NRRRL U18 match against Casino RSM but also scoring in Round Four against Evans Head last weekend in a big 58-0 victory.
In 2018 in the NRRRL U18 competition Brody Jones played in thirteen regular season matches for Lismore Marist Brothers scoring an impressive nine tries along the way for a strike rate of 69.23%.
Brody Jones scored a hat trick against Kyogle mid-season and the week prior scored a double against Murwillumbah. Brody Jones also had a good try scoring run late in the season when he scored in consecutive rounds against Casino RSM, Lower Clarence and Tweed Coast. Brody Jones’s remaining try came in Round Three once again against Tweed Coast.
In 2017 the tough young Lismore Marist Brothers second rower’s rugby league season finished with him attending the Titans U16 High Performance Academy camp in Lennox Heads in late 2017 where he played for the Titans in their match against a Western Mustangs U16 side that was also attending the high performance camp.
Brody Jones played for Lismore Marist Brothers in two different competitions in 2107 being the U16.5 Group One Junior Rugby League competition and the NRRRL competition at the U18 level.
For Lismore Marist Brothers in the 2017 Group One U16.5 competition, Brody Jones played in twelve matches for the 4th placed Rams scoring three tries including two in two weeks against Ballina and Clarence Coast and later in the season Brody Jones scored against Casino RSM.
In total Brody Jones also played four matches at the U18 level in the 2017 NRRRL competition with his first match coming in early April against the Tweed Coast Raiders which included the outstanding young forward Oscar Clarke.
In 2016 Brody Jones was selected on the bench for the U15 New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges Northern Region side for their annual trials.
Ballina Seagulls second rower Tupou Lolohea’s outstanding start to the 2019 NRRRL season continued unabated over the weekend in Round Four. The powerhouse young man started Sunday off scoring in the U18 match as Ballina defeated Murwillumbah 18-12.
The try was his ninth in just four U18 NRRRL matches this season. He then backed up to make his NRRRL Reserve Grade debut and in no surprise scored in his debut there as well.
Tupou Lolohea has already made his NRRRL First Grade debut this season to cap off what is already an amazing season.
Saw this on Facebook the morning and there is now an article on the Bulletin website ( which I can’t access) Not sure of the details but sad to see either way. Zee Wallace came over and played NYC and then at Burleigh Bears
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/zae-the-boy-with-the-big-heart-needs-our-support
Zae is fighting for his life in hospital. Any donations to help make Zae's rehabilitation Easier will be sincerely appreciated.
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This give a little page is created with the permission of Zae's family. For those of you who know Zae you will know he is a very talented Rugby League and rugby player. He is a very strong athletic young man who has been in Australia playing league and has just recently returned to NZ to continue playing league with the Northcote Tigers. Unfortunately Zae has only played one game with them before being struck down with a sudden illness. Not only is he athletic but he has a great sense of humor and is a great friend to all his mates.
Zae had the flu which progressed to pneumonia and subsequently a serious infection that has left him fighting for his life in Auckland City hospital. He is currently on a ventilator and an ECMO machine.
When Zae recovers from this he is going to require a lot of rehabilitation and it will be a long road back for him to be the young fit healthy young man he was prior to this illness.
Zae had just started a job and will not be eligible for ACC while he is sick. He has already spent nearly four weeks in hospital.
While visiting Zae in hospital it makes me feel helpless that there is nothing we can do for him. I believe most people feel the same. This is one way the wider community can show our support for Zae and his family during his recovery.
Great to see Titans contracted centre/fullback Rowan Mansfield make his U18 NRRRL debut in Round Four on the weekend for Ballina as they defeated Murwillumbah 18-12.
Earlier this season Rowan Mansfield was one of multiple stand out performers for the Northern Rivers Titans U16 Andrew Johns Cup competition winning side and has also been named in the NSW Country U16 side that will tour the UK in November.
Rowan Mansfield who played primarily left centre for the Northern Rivers Titans but also played one match at fullback has been named on the wing for the NSW Country U16 side.
Titans contracted Ethan Foster made it two tries from as many matches when he scored for Lower Clarence in Round Four of the NRRRL U18 competition but it was not enough to seal a victory against Casino RSM.
After making his debut in Round Three of the NRRRL U18 competition on the wing for Cudgen, Titans contracted star in the making Thomas Weaver moved closer to the action in his second match at that level, starting Round Four at five eight and kicking three goals from five attempts as Cudgen ran out 26-10 winners over Byron Bay.
People are quite rightly talking about the Broncos Thomas Dearden, but the Titans have their own star in the making with Thomas Weaver.
Mr Bods
02-05-19, 08:37 PM
Saw this on Facebook the morning and there is now an article on the Bulletin website ( which I can’t access) Not sure of the details but sad to see either way. Zee Wallace came over and played NYC and then at Burleigh Bears
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/zae-the-boy-with-the-big-heart-needs-our-support
Zae is fighting for his life in hospital. Any donations to help make Zae's rehabilitation Easier will be sincerely appreciated.
Main image
This give a little page is created with the permission of Zae's family. For those of you who know Zae you will know he is a very talented Rugby League and rugby player. He is a very strong athletic young man who has been in Australia playing league and has just recently returned to NZ to continue playing league with the Northcote Tigers. Unfortunately Zae has only played one game with them before being struck down with a sudden illness. Not only is he athletic but he has a great sense of humor and is a great friend to all his mates.
Zae had the flu which progressed to pneumonia and subsequently a serious infection that has left him fighting for his life in Auckland City hospital. He is currently on a ventilator and an ECMO machine.
When Zae recovers from this he is going to require a lot of rehabilitation and it will be a long road back for him to be the young fit healthy young man he was prior to this illness.
Zae had just started a job and will not be eligible for ACC while he is sick. He has already spent nearly four weeks in hospital.
While visiting Zae in hospital it makes me feel helpless that there is nothing we can do for him. I believe most people feel the same. This is one way the wider community can show our support for Zae and his family during his recovery.
Zae Wallace is certainly not short on ticker. I’m backing him in.
A few Titans boys are in the South Coast U15 side including Titans contracted Te Haeata Takamore and Seth Nikotemo that defeated Met North 18-10.
Latest Junior Development wrap from the official site
https://www.titans.com.au/news/2019/05/02/round-8-jnr-rep-wrap/
Great to see Titans contracted Bailey Martin named in the second row for the Burleigh U16 Div One side in tonight’s Round Two match against Currumbin.
In Round One he was named in the front row but due to injury played on an edge where he could use his speed and late footwork to greater effect.
Former Auckland junior Yorel Alapaki moves from hooker to lock for Southport in their U18 Division One clash against Currumbin on Sunday.
Former Cabramatta rugby league junior (Parramatta Junior District) Siaosi Havea will make his Gold Coast debut tonight for Ormeau against Runaway Bay in the U15 Division One competition.
In Round One of the GCRL U16 Division Two competition last weekend, Ronny Fiala-Motu took the field for Burleigh starting in the second row in their 26-0 win over Jimboomba, it was his first club rugby league match for a number of years.
In 2018 Ronny Fiala-Motu played rugby on the Gold Coast for Bond University in the GCRU U15 competition. He started Round One on the bench, but broke into the starting side in Round Five against the Gold Coast Eagles at hooker. For the remainder of the regular season Ronny Fiala-Motu maintained his place in the Bond University starting line-up at hooker except for Round Seven against Wollongbar/Alstonville when he started at No. 6.
Ronny Fiala-Motu’s sole try of the season came in Round Ten against the Gold Coast Eagles.
He played in both of Bond Uni’s finals matches starting both on the interchange bench including their tough Preliminary Final loss.
Ronny Fiala-Motu will also start Round Two tonight against Robina.
Former Hamilton Boys High student Demante Murray received a clearance to play for Burleigh in the Gold Coast Rugby League U18 competition in early April and in Round One started in the centres for the Burleigh U18 Division Two side.
Demante Murray had an outstanding school boy rugby career in New Zealand for Hamilton Boys High culminating last year in kicking the winning penalty goal in the New Zealand Schools Super 8 final to give Hamilton Boys High a 23 – 22 win over Napier Boys High. In the final in addition to the match winning conversion, Demante Murray kicked another penalty goal and a conversion.
The week prior to the final Demante Murray kicked three conversions in a Hamilton Boys High win against their Super 8 finals opponent Napier Boys High and recorded a try earlier in the season against Tuaranga in a 39 – 0 win.
For Hamilton Boys High Demante Murray played first five eight (No. 10) and his season was also impressive to the extent that he recovered from a broken jaw to get back for the Super 8 final.
At the 2018 Hamilton Boys High sports night Demante Murray received the James Hook Trophy for the Hamilton Boys High First XV most outstanding goal kicker.
In New Zealand Demante Murray also played both rugby league and touch, in rugby league he played for the Teiti Rearea Sport Club in the Waikato Rugby League competition.
Demante Murray was a representative level touch player in New Zealand, representing the Waikato region in touch in 2016 in the U15 age group then going on to represent New Zealand at the U16 level in 2017 and also represented New Zealand in the U18 age group.
Good to see former Titans junior development squad member Titan Vaikai named to start in the front row tonight for Runaway Bay in their Round 2 U16 Division One match against Southport.
South Coast defeated Peninsula 30-0, a very good performance in the U15 QSSRL Championships
After starting Round One on the bench Quihn Pritchard will make his Gold Coast run on debut on the weekend in Round Two of the U18 Division One competition for Ormeau against Runaway Bay.
After starting Round One on the bench Boaz Kapua will start for Burleigh in Round Two of the U14 Division One competition against Currumbin.
After starting last week in the front row and scoring a hat trick former New Zealand youngster Terry-Jack Smart will start Round Two of the U18 Division One competition for Southport in the second row against the Currumbin Eagles.
Former Townsville youngster Mitchel Yow will make his starting debut on the Gold Coast when he starts at hooker for Southport against Currumbin in Round Two of the GCRL U18 Division One competition. He came off the bench in Round One.
His younger brother Jaxen Yow had a solid start to his rugby league career on the Gold Coast last weekend kicking five goals for Southport against Helensvale in the U15 Division One competition and has been named at lock for Round Two.
In 2018 Jaxen Yow played for Toowoomba Brothers Blue including starting at five eight in their 26-14 U14 Grand Final loss to the Western Lions Pride.
In total in 2018 for Townsville Brothers Jaxen Yow played in seventeen matches in the Townsville U14 competition scoring seven tries and kicking two goals for a 32 point season haul.
Interesting to see that Taine Tuaupiki has been named at fullback for the Burleigh GCRL First Grade side this weekend, he normally plays in the halves.
Titans contracted star in the making EJ Finau made an outstanding start for his new club Redcliffe last weekend in Round One of the GBJRL U15 Division One competition scoring a double against Mitchelton.
EJ Finau’s first try came when after Redcliffe received a penalty around forty metres out from the line, he took the first hit-up and burst through the defensive line before using his speed to easily beat the fullback to score.
EJ Finau’s second try was from a play closer to the Mitchelton line, the ball was delivered to Redcliffe’s left (EJ Finau played left second row) for EJ Finau to receive the pass when running a straight crash line to break through the defensive and then just prior to the line, spun 360 degrees to score whilst dragging three defenders with him.
Results from Round Two of the Titans School boy competitions played on Wednesday night (sorry for the setting out)
Titans Trophy:
Robina SHS 28 Varsity College 0
Keebra Park 38 St Michaels College 0
Titans Cup:
Beenleigh SHS 18 Marymount College 16
Keebra Park 16 Aquinas College 16
Titans Shield:
Forest Lake SHS 24 St Francis College 4
Trinity College 44 Beenleigh SHS (2) 4
Chisholm College 32 Windaroo SHS 12
Robina SHS 40 Nerang SHS 8
Keebra Park 20 St Michaels College 0
Titans Challenge:
Trinity College 20 Beenleigh SHS (2) 12
Stretton College 24 St Francis College 4
Beenleigh SHS 24 Beenleigh SHS (3) 4
Chisholm College 48 Windaroo SHS 0
Robina SHS 38 Varsity College 6
Coombabah SHS 20 Coombabah SHS (2) 0
Former Waitako NZ youngster Daytona-Lukiz Tupuhi-Taoho starts at half tonight for Helensvale in their Round Two U15 Division One match against Nerang.
In the Waitako region he played for the HUKANUI RLSC club.
After a solid MM Cup season with Burleigh Titans centre/second rower Eli Morgan looks set for his Hastings Deering's Colts debut tomorrow from the bench for Burleigh in their Round 9 match against Redcliffe.
Trey Peni to make his Colts debut for Burleigh this afternoon on the wing.
Is the #9 for South Coast with the Titans?
Not a contracted player with the Titans mate
Is the #9 for South Coast with the Titans?
Tough afternoon for the Tweed Heads Colts side going down 34-4 to Norths, Titans Ben Thomas was the Tweed try scorer.
Titans contracted front rowers Arama Hau and Joseph Shannon lead the way for the South Coast U15 side in their 20-10 win over Met East to be unbeaten through three games.
Not a contracted player with the Titans mate
That's a shame. Hopefully this will be rectified in the coming years.
Try on debut for the young man
Trey Peni to make his Colts debut for Burleigh this afternoon on the wing.
Big win for Burleigh Colts this afternoon 50-6 against Redcliffe. Jayden Campbell with another hat rick, Reece Tapine with a double, Trey Peni with a debut double and outstanding hooker Lachlan Turnbull with seven goals.
Jayden Campbell is in unbelievable try scoring form.
Titan Keegan Pace who played earlier this year in the Norther Rivers Titans U16 final winning side makes his NRRRL U18 debut tomorrow off the bench for Cudgen in their Round Five match against Ballina.
It was the Titans story for Ipswich Norths in Round One of the U14 competition last weekend with David Neller scoring a try and kicking a conversions and Larry Siala as they went down 14-10 to Goodna Black.
I just realised that this is my 5000th post. I can not thank every person who has contributed to the junior development portion of this forum enough and also the people who have provided me with their thoughts and considerations.
I know that the season has not started well for the NRL side but rest assured that there are some exceptionally talented players coming through as a result of the hard work of people like Jamie McCormack.
The future is incredibly bright for the Titans.
Thankyou to everyone who has ever read a post and thankyou to every young person who are chasing their dreams whether it be in rugby league or anything else, and thank you to every parent, grand parent relative who is helping young people chasing their dream.
Sunny86
05-05-19, 07:04 AM
Thank you mdrew for all the time you have taken to write these post
South Coast will play Met North in the QSSRL U15 final today with Titans involved and a number should be selected in the two Queensland sides to be named after this afternoons final.
lonegull
05-05-19, 07:30 AM
Thankyou Mdrew I could right an essay on how valuable your input is into our forum
Bayside Titan
05-05-19, 10:29 AM
Thankyou Mdrew I could right an essay on how valuable your input is into our forum
Agree Gull. Mdrew does an outstanding job keeping us updated on the Junior RL side of things.
Fantastic achievement mdrew, second to none in the Titan's cause!
I just realised that this is my 5000th post. I can not thank every person who has contributed to the junior development portion of this forum enough and also the people who have provided me with their thoughts and considerations.
I know that the season has not started well for the NRL side but rest assured that there are some exceptionally talented players coming through as a result of the hard work of people like Jamie McCormack.
The future is incredibly bright for the Titans.
Thankyou to everyone who has ever read a post and thankyou to every young person who are chasing their dreams whether it be in rugby league or anything else, and thank you to every parent, grand parent relative who is helping young people chasing their dream.
Tweed Heads Seagulls lead the MM Cup final 18-8 at half time
Magnificent effort by the Tweed Heads Seagulls winning the MM Cup Grand Final 28-24 against Wynnum with Titan Solomon Torrens scoring a barnstorming try to seal the win in a high standard match.
South Coast defeat Met East 17-14 to win the QSSRL U15 Championships well done boys a number who are already Titans contracted.
Great effort though by Met East five eight Karl Oloapu who at just 14 started for the Met East U15 side, he also stood out the Titans U14 side in February at Mudgeeraba.
Mr Bods
05-05-19, 02:21 PM
Props to u from me as well mdrew. Unfortunately when the site crashed for a few weeks whenever that was my post count went back to Zero. So I’ll never know these milestones.
Looking forward now to the next 5000 posts from you especially now with the better systems in place.
Well done to Titan Jesse Arthars for being selected in the 2019 Queensland Residents side.
I was at Brandon Park Acacia Ridge this morning to watch Souths Acacia Ridge to play Redcliffe in the Brisbane U14 Division One competition.
Xavier Atoa who scored a hat trick for the Titans U14 side earlier this year, started at fullback for Souths Acacia Ridge and scored a hat trick and set up three more as Souths defeated Redcliffe 38-18.
The scoreboard said the final score has 34-18 but they missed a Souths Acacia Ridge try.
Well done to Titans contracted Nic Hilton and Joseph Shannon for their selection in the Queensland U15 Maroons side for the 2019 ASSRL U15 Championships later in the year.
Well done to Titans contracted Te Haeta Takamore and Josiah Pahulu for their selection in the Queensland U15 Whites side for the 2019 ASSRL U15 Championships later in the year.
With their win this afternoon led by captain and Titans contracted Carsil Vaikai the Tweed Heads Seagulls will now take on NSW U18 SG Ball winners Illawarra next weekend.
Thanks for your (now) 5009 posts. Your knowledge of the local (and more impressively) the not so local juniors is amazing.
Your feed back here is second to none.
Thanks for the information and advice you have given me as well.
Well done.
Jaxson Paulo with a try and a try assist this afternoon for the Burleigh GCRL First Grade side in their Round Seven 16 all draw with Tugun.
Ormeau U15 Division One fullback Malachi Nicholson made it two tries from as many matches when he scored on Friday night in ROund Two against Runaway Bay.
Playing his first game with his new club Taine Ujdur-Berghan started at half for the Burleigh U18 Division Two side against Tugun before being on the bench for the Burleigh Division One side.
Former North Queenslander Jai Smith made his first start since his move to he Gold Cost starting for the Burleigh U18 Division One side at lock in Round Two against Helensvale.
He started from the bench in Round One
Tuki Seiuli who has played a number of matches for the Bond University Colts II side this season including at least one match at outside centre started for Ormeau at hooker in Round Two of the GCRL U18 Division One competition against Runaway Bay on Saturday.
After a successful season in the MM Cup for Burleigh Cole Geyer made his 2019 debut in the GCRL U18 Division One competition coming off the bench for Currumbin in their Round Two match against Southport.
Cole Geyer who is normally a hooker, played a couple of MM Cup matches at lock this season.
Tyrese Walker has had an interrupted start to the 2019 season including only playing one MM Cup match started at fullback for Burleigh in Round Two of the U18 Division One competition against Helensvale.
The Murwillumbah U18 NRRRL side just got a lot stronger with Tyrhys Williams receiving a clearance to join the Northern New South Wales side after playing Round One of the GCRL U18 Division One competition with Nerang.
Regardless of where he plays he is an outstanding talent.
Tweed Heads MM Cup victory highlights. Tweed 9 and 10 tries are Titans.
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2019/05/06/auswide-bank-mal-meninga-cup-grand-final-highlights-wynnum-v-tweed/
lonegull
06-05-19, 03:05 PM
Tweed Heads MM Cup victory highlights. Tweed 9 and 10 tries are Titans.
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2019/05/06/auswide-bank-mal-meninga-cup-grand-final-highlights-wynnum-v-tweed/
How many out of that side are titans, is the number 13 a titan?
Yes mate the 13 is Carsil Vaikai who is a Titan and captained the Tweed side.
All bar one of the starting pack are Titans as were three of the starting backline and one of the reserves.
I would not be surprised if one or two others end up with the Titans in the next year as so, such is the quality of the TEDS program.
How many out of that side are titans, is the number 13 a titan?
Great interview with Titans contracted Ediq Ambrosyev after yesterday's Tweed Heads MM Cup victory.
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2019/05/06/weve-found-our-rhythm---tweeds-ambrosyev/
First say Ediq playing for the Titans in the centres for the Titans U13 side against Toowoomba a few years ago now when he scored two tries including an 80 metre intercept at Pizzey Park..
He will also be a key player for PBC as they look to defend the GIO Cup.
Also of note from the MM Cup final, Titan Ediq Ambrosyev was named player of the final for his game at hooker and of course his try
Yea mate thought he was lucky to get it over Reece Walsh or even Solomon Torrens who must have topped the run metres
It was one physical game, mate, glad I was not a forward taking a hit-up
Yea mate thought he was lucky to get it over Reece Walsh or even Solomon Torrens who must have topped the run metres
It was one physical game, mate, glad I was not a forward taking a hit-up
Yes mate the tweed foward pack and line defence was outstanding too good for wynnum but i was glad to see wynnum not give up
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A high quality game of footy
Impressive to see Titans U14 player Karl Opoalu started at five eight for U15 Met North in the final against South Coast.
Titan Ediq Ambrosyev
https://www.qrl.com.au/news/2019/05/07/what-a-weapon---ediq-ambrosyev/
19 year old Murwillumbah centre Liam Cusack continued his strong start to the NRRRL First Grade competition in Round Five on the weekend, scoring his 4th try from just three matches as Murwillumbah went down 18-10 to Tweed Coast.
Oskar Bryant who stood out as hooker of the U16 Andrew Johns Cup winning side earlier this season, started from the bench and scored his third try in as many matches for the Cudgen U18 NRRRL side as they defeated Ballina 18-12.
Powerful young Ballina Seagulls U18 second rower Tupou Lolohea’s incredible 2019 season continued unabated on the weekend when he scored his 10th try in the opening five rounds of the NRRRL U18 competition on Sunday but he could not prevent Ballina going down 18-12 to Cudgen.
He then backed up to play in the reserve grade match that followed the U18’s.
Firebrand Byron Bay young second rower and Ballina Coast student Kuyan Roberts-Laurie proved too much for The Tweed Heads Seagulls U18 side to handle in Round Five of the U18 NRRRL competition scoring a double as the Devils defeated Tweed Heads 30-10.
He then backed up to play his third NRRRL First Grade match of the season.
Tweed Heads Seagulls U18 National Championship team
https://www.qrl.com.au/draw/junior-national-state-championship/2019/junior-state-championship-seagulls-v-steelers/
In Round Nine of the Queensland Cup, Ioane Seuili started his third match in a row at left centre once again playing the entire 80 minutes against Norths. He ran for 112 metres (an impressive 58 post contact), broke three tackles, played the ball at an average speed of 4.3 seconds and made ten tackles.
In Round Nine of the Queensland Cup, Tremain Spry started at right centre once again playing the entire 80 minutes against Norths. He ran for 121 metres (43 post contact), broke two tackles, played the ball at an average speed of 3.35 seconds and made thirteen tackles.
Titans star in the making Thomas Weaver started once again at five eight for the Cudgen U18 NRRRL side and kicked three goals from as many attends as he led the Hornets to an 18-12 win over Ballina.
In his three U18 NRRRL matches to date this season (he is still U16 eligible) Thomas Weaver has amassed 24 points from a try and ten goals.
PBC Vs Marsden is being streamed through Red Corner Promotions Facebook page for those that are interested.
Mr Bods
08-05-19, 06:43 PM
Mdrew-what went wrong in our inability to identify Briton Nikora?
Mdrew-what went wrong in our inability to identify Briton Nikora?
I am starting to get confused Bods! What do you want? Gold Coast Locals or kids that were brought here as part of there development.
As Mdrew has said PBC and Keebra are highly regarded by all NRL teams. Kids come to those schools already signed to other clubs. They are bought here to expose them to higher levels of competition, and to bring them closer to the NRL clubs own programs.
The Titans have a relationship with PBC and Coombabah. They don’t own them, they don’t have dibs on all the kids. They give some coaching support to the programs.
To throw some rough numbers around, I believe PBC has about 25 kids in each grades Rugby League Excellence program. So for the open program there is roughly 55 to 60 kids (across grades 10 to 12) in the open program.
Keebra, from what I know is roughly the same and Coombabah is building especially in the lower grades.
So in the open age groups that’s roughly 150-180 kids in the u18 age group in excellence programs at 3 schools on the Gold Coast.
That doesn’t include schools like Marymount, who are building nicely under Matt Geyer, TSS who take kids for rugby, and a few other schools that are slowly building programs..
The Titans can’t claim them all. And like I said plenty of them, especially in the senior programs are brought up here by other clubs from other areas.
They are doing great things with the local kids. Kids that have previously been with other clubs are wanting to come back to the Titans. But just because a kid plays for a Gold Coast School doesn’t mean he has any ties to the Gold Coast.
Benji Marshall played at Keebra Park. He was brought here to play for a Keebra as a pathway. He was already tied to the Tigers.
Sorry for the long winded reply, but I am getting a bit sick of the “he was on the Gold Coast, he should be a Titan.”
Mdrew does a great job of identifying talent, keeping us up to date with what goes on.
Mr Bods
08-05-19, 09:44 PM
^^^ You have taken my a question about him the wrong way. I want to know how he slipped through, there might be something unique there to share, and it’s not up to mdrew anyway to sign players, mdrew isn’t responsible for who’s contracted and who’s not, he’s just the expert we have to make enquiries to.
Nikora wasn’t on one of those contracts I believe. Be interested therefore how he slipped through the radar.
Nikora is pretty good.
If you are saying he was brought up here by Cronulla well there’s my answer, but I’m not sure that’s the case here. Nikora might well be an actual GC local, which by the way in answer to your question is most certainly what I want. GC/Tweed/Northern Rivers locals.
PS-I appreciate your posts on this, it helps me and possibly the casual readers to have more insight into how this all operates.
Yeah to be fair I meant to delete that last line.
Anyway PBC won there game today 30-14 against Marsden. An impressive win since a lot of there A grade starters were being rested for the Mal Meninga/SG Ball national final this weekend.
Ipswich beat Wavell and I haven’t found a result but I expect Keebra Beat St Mary’s
Mr Bods
08-05-19, 10:00 PM
Yeah to be fair I meant to delete that last line.
Anyway PBC won there game today 30-14 against Marsden. An impressive win since a lot of there A grade starters were being rested for the Mal Meninga/SG Ball national final this weekend.
Ipswich beat Wavell and I haven’t found a result but I expect Keebra Beat St Mary’s
Prepared to make a prediction for the Meninga/Ball GF??
Seagulls
1 Reece Walsh
2 Troy Duckett
3 Xavier Coates
4 Caleb Hodges
5 Jake Martin
6 Kade Hill
7 Toby Sexton
8 Ben Liyou
9 Ediq Ambrosyev
10 Solomon Torrens
11 Juwan Compain
12 Brendan Piakura
13 Carsil Vaikai
14 Joshua Bevan
15 Israel Higgins
16 James Torrens
17 Isiah Perrett
Who can we expect to see lighting up Robina Stadium and winning our first NRL GF in a few years time??
If you believe the QRL website Reece Walsh is the next superstar. Personally I think the Broncos will churn and burn him..
There’s big wraps on Juwain Compain. Left the Broncos to come back for Teds
Xavier Coates is great, I’ve seen him play a little bit. Big strong fast centre. Not 100% sure if he is a titan.
There a couple of kids in that list I know are signed elsewhere but are re-evaluating there options....
Sorry Mr Bods,
I assume this is the article that you were referring to when asking about Nikora.
The Sydney Morning Herald
SPORTNRLSHARKS
How Cronulla's star rookie slipped through the Titans' fingers
By Christian Nicolussi
May 8, 2019 — 4.46pm
Early NRL rookie of the year favourite Briton Nikora was snubbed by the Gold Coast Titans as a junior.
In fact, Nikora could not even crack the first team at the famous local Keebra Park High School.
"I was usually in the B team,'' said Nikora, who will try to continue his blazing start to his first year in the NRL when he takes on some of his school mates and the Titans on Thursday night.
Young gun: Cronulla's Briton Nikora.
Young gun: Cronulla's Briton Nikora.
Photo: AAP
If beggars belief that the struggling Titans failed to identify a talent such as Nikora. The gifted Kiwi, who moved to the holiday strip when he was nine, was forced to travel more than 1000 kilometres for a train-and-trial deal with Canberra before he signed a deal with Cronulla.
The Sharks have Nikora signed until the end of 2020, but a new extended deal will be the club's priority based on what they have seen during the opening two months from the kid wearing Luke Lewis' old No.11 jersey.
"I graduated in 2014 from Keebra Park, but I couldn't make their first team," Nikora said. "I don't think they had any faith in me. I came off their production line, sort of.
"I was a bit skinny and little; I was about 70 kilograms. I was in their B team and there wasn't much for me footy-wise after school.
"I was there when AJ Brimson was there, Phillip Sami; JJ Felise was in the starting team. I was playing in the Mal Meninga [under-18s competition], but there was nothing with the Titans.
"I went to Canberra for a train-and-trial and [then] trialled with Cronulla. I just needed to figure out where I would stay.
"Then Cronulla got back to me a week later and said, 'we'll fix you up with a place to stay' and gave me a two-year deal.
"I'm here until the end of next year. But I love it here. It's a nice area, good people."
When Sharks favourite Lewis retired last year, he had a fair idea who would be his successor on the Sharks' right edge.
"The thing I love about him, in my last pre-season, he really applied himself, put on weight, worked hard in the gym, he was always smiling and willing to learn,'' Lewis said.
"On the training park he'd run some really nice lines and built a nice combination with the halves.
"I knew he would be a special player once he got his opportunity.
"I love him, he's been absolutely outstanding. In my eyes, he's been Cronulla's best."
Calls for Nikora to force his way into the New Zealand Test team have already started and while the mid-year blockbuster against Tonga might come too soon, the end-of-year internationals appear a formality. So says Sharks captain Paul Gallen, who is a pretty tough marker.
"He's been outstanding,'' Gallen said. "He had Luke Lewis in front of him the past couple of years so he could have played a few more [NRL] games.
"He has been our best player. Certainly the back end of the year when he has 20-odd first-grade games under his belt, and if he keeps performing the way he has been performing, he will play [for New Zealand]. He is clearly going to be there for the Kiwis the next five to 10 years."
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Copyright © 2019o it does appear that he has deep ties to the Gold Coast, but didn't hit his stride til after he left.
Like I said you can't keep them all. He wasn't in the top 17 at his school.
To his credit, he dug in took a chance and made a fist of it so congratulations.
Once again I apologise. (Although I stand by my points haha)
Titans contracted Bailey Martin was simply outstanding last night for PBC in their Round One Allan Langer Cup win over Marsden.
In his first match in the dummy half role , he was outstanding both in attack and defence. Not bad at all for a 16 year old against players in some cases two years older.
For me Bailey Martin has the best defensive technique in the Titans development system and that was on display last night.
Latest Junior Development round-up from the Official Site
https://www.titans.com.au/news/2019/05/09/round-9-jnr-rep-wrap/
Mr Bods
09-05-19, 06:30 PM
Sorry Mr Bods,
I assume this is the article that you were referring to when asking about Nikora.
The Sydney Morning Herald
SPORTNRLSHARKS
How Cronulla's star rookie slipped through the Titans' fingers
By Christian Nicolussi
May 8, 2019 — 4.46pm
Early NRL rookie of the year favourite Briton Nikora was snubbed by the Gold Coast Titans as a junior.
In fact, Nikora could not even crack the first team at the famous local Keebra Park High School.
"I was usually in the B team,'' said Nikora, who will try to continue his blazing start to his first year in the NRL when he takes on some of his school mates and the Titans on Thursday night.
Young gun: Cronulla's Briton Nikora.
Young gun: Cronulla's Briton Nikora.
Photo: AAP
If beggars belief that the struggling Titans failed to identify a talent such as Nikora. The gifted Kiwi, who moved to the holiday strip when he was nine, was forced to travel more than 1000 kilometres for a train-and-trial deal with Canberra before he signed a deal with Cronulla.
The Sharks have Nikora signed until the end of 2020, but a new extended deal will be the club's priority based on what they have seen during the opening two months from the kid wearing Luke Lewis' old No.11 jersey.
"I graduated in 2014 from Keebra Park, but I couldn't make their first team," Nikora said. "I don't think they had any faith in me. I came off their production line, sort of.
"I was a bit skinny and little; I was about 70 kilograms. I was in their B team and there wasn't much for me footy-wise after school.
"I was there when AJ Brimson was there, Phillip Sami; JJ Felise was in the starting team. I was playing in the Mal Meninga [under-18s competition], but there was nothing with the Titans.
"I went to Canberra for a train-and-trial and [then] trialled with Cronulla. I just needed to figure out where I would stay.
"Then Cronulla got back to me a week later and said, 'we'll fix you up with a place to stay' and gave me a two-year deal.
"I'm here until the end of next year. But I love it here. It's a nice area, good people."
When Sharks favourite Lewis retired last year, he had a fair idea who would be his successor on the Sharks' right edge.
"The thing I love about him, in my last pre-season, he really applied himself, put on weight, worked hard in the gym, he was always smiling and willing to learn,'' Lewis said.
"On the training park he'd run some really nice lines and built a nice combination with the halves.
"I knew he would be a special player once he got his opportunity.
"I love him, he's been absolutely outstanding. In my eyes, he's been Cronulla's best."
Calls for Nikora to force his way into the New Zealand Test team have already started and while the mid-year blockbuster against Tonga might come too soon, the end-of-year internationals appear a formality. So says Sharks captain Paul Gallen, who is a pretty tough marker.
"He's been outstanding,'' Gallen said. "He had Luke Lewis in front of him the past couple of years so he could have played a few more [NRL] games.
"He has been our best player. Certainly the back end of the year when he has 20-odd first-grade games under his belt, and if he keeps performing the way he has been performing, he will play [for New Zealand]. He is clearly going to be there for the Kiwis the next five to 10 years."
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Copyright © 2019o it does appear that he has deep ties to the Gold Coast, but didn't hit his stride til after he left.
Like I said you can't keep them all. He wasn't in the top 17 at his school.
To his credit, he dug in took a chance and made a fist of it so congratulations.
Once again I apologise. (Although I stand by my points haha)
JA as we discussed in a PM it’s all good man and I enjoy you educating me on how it works and I don’t mind a good bake from an esteemed Fellow Titans Board Contributor. It’s good entertainment when done the right way. That’s what you do.
In Round Seven of the GCRL Doug Lipp Cup Gab Salvo made his debut in that grade for Runaway Bay when he started on the wing against Ormeau. This season he has also played in one U20 match starting in the centres in Round Five against Mudgeeraba.
Former PBC student Nelson Grove made his Doug Lipp debut last weekend in Round Seven for Tugun and Burleigh, starting from the bench.
Also this season Nelson Grove has started at hooker for Tugun in the opening two rounds of the U18 Division Two competition.
The aggressive hooker was a more than solid contributor for the outstanding 2018 PBC Open School boy rugby league that won the National GIO Cup competition by defeating Patrician Brothers College Blacktown. Nelson Grove came off the bench in all of PBC’s GIO Cup matches, providing a spark and aggression in the dummy half role when he came on to spell regular starting hooker Jed Edwards.
Nelson Grove only played in one GCRL match in 2018 with that match being for Burleigh against Helensvale in the U17 Division One competition. Nelson Grove is also a former member of the Brisbane Broncos Junior Development system and was so for a number of years.
Nelson Grove had an outstanding 2017 season which included being selected in the Queensland U16 side where he was one of six Burleigh youngsters in the Queensland Side for the State of Origin curtain raiser. 2017 also saw Nelson Grove selected in the Queensland Academy of Sport U16 squad. Previously Nelson Grove has been part of the Brisbane Broncos Junior Development Program.
For the Burleigh Bears in the U16 Division One competition in 2017 Nelson Grove started at lock in their tough 34 – 4 Grand Final loss to the Currumbin Eagles. Over the course of the 2017 GCJRL U16 Division One competition, Nelson Grove played in thirteen matches and scored twenty points which came from four tries and two conversions. Nelson Grove’s tries came against Ormeau, Runaway Bay and Helensvale in two separate late season matches. His conversions came in consecutive mid-season matches against Runaway Bay (when he converted his own try) and against Ormeau.
Nelson Grove also played one match for the Burleigh Bears in the GCJRL U17 Division One competition with that match being against the Ormeau Shearers backing up from the U16 match earlier in the night.
In 2017 Nelson Grove also represented South East Queensland Green at the U16 level in the 2017 Queensland Rugby League U16 Boys Junior Championships. In those Championships, Nelson Grove played in four matches which were against Central, Northern and South East Queensland White, including the final. Nelson Grove’s sole U16 Championship try came on Day Two against Northern.
In 2016 Nelson Grove also started in Burleigh’s Grand Final winning side in the U15 Division One competition and across the 2016 season he scored five tries and kicked 13 goals and a field goal to finish with a total points tally of 47. Nelson Grove had a great start to the 2016 season scoring a hat trick and kicking eight goals in the first round of the season proper against the Ormeau Shearers for a 30 point haul in the match.
Nelson Grove’s other tries in 2016 came against Southport and Helensvale later in the season and in a match in July against Runaway Bay Nelson Grove kicked four goals. Nelson Grove over the course of the 2016 season also played two matches up in the U16 Division One competition and in his debut in that grade scored a try against Helensvale after backing up from the U15 match earlier in the night.
Nelson Grove represented South Coast in the U15 QSSRL Championships in 2016 and from there went on to represent Queensland Maroon at the U15 ASSRL Championships.
In Round Five of the NRRRL U18 competition, young Kyogle fullback Layne Hardy crossed for a double as the Turkeys defeated Evans Head 20-12.
In just three U18 NRRRL matches this season, Layne Hardy has already scored five tries.
Round Five of the U18 NRRRL competition saw will of the wisp half Tyrelle Roberts amongst the points once again for Lismore Marist Brothers as they defeated Lower Clarence 28 -22.
In the match he scored a try an kicked two goals.
Lower Clarence backrower Cooper Many, after scoring a double in the Magpies Round Five NRRRL U18 loss to Lismore Marist Brothers 28-22, has a 100% strike rate through the opening five rounds of the competition.
Tough Lismore Marist Brothers backrower Brody Jones scored his third try of the 2019 NRRRL U18 season in Round Five on the weekend as the Rams defeated Lower Clarence 28-22.
Outstanding South Grafton Rebels junior rugby league player Isaac Barker has been named in the 2019 New South Wales Country U14 side after their recent Championships where he played for the Far North Coast side.
In 2018 for South Grafton in the Group One competition, Isaac Barker scored a staggering 31 tries from just 11 matches.
Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts player Adyn Anguna played his first match in the GCRL U20 competition last weekend being Round Seven for Runaway Bay coming starting on the wing and then backed up to start the following Doug Lipp Cup match in the front row.
He started the opening rounds of the 2019 season in the front row for the Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts side.
Giant front rower Jordan Tauali’I started from the bench for the PBC Open A Rugby League side in their Round One Allan Langer Cup match against Marsden last night scoring late in the second half, when he charged onto a pass from Titans contracted dummy half Bailey Martin to crash over near the right upright.
Titans contracted Tyler Szepanowski started the season in the Burleigh Hastings Deering’s Colts side, playing the opening eight rounds in the front row before being promoted to the Burleigh GCRL First Grade side, starting from the bench in Round Seven last weekend in a 16 all draw with Tugun.
In relation to Briton Nikora mate, I will put my hand up and say I did not think that he would be so good so quickly, thought he would be a good player, but I absolutely dropped the ball on him.
Also as supporters we have to be a bit wary of reacting to these articles as we have no idea whether the Titans talked to him prior to his move or not. Understandably the article acknowledges him and the Sharks but does not go any further.
I can guarantee you and everyone on this forum that the Titans are working very very hard in relation to junior development but can not keep all of the boys that have played on the Coast, some move on for money (there is incredible money being thrown around by some clubs), some because they see a better opportunity elsewhere, some because their families have links to other NRL clubs etc.
Increasingly more and more are coming back though including Jesse Arthars, Jai Whitbread and Keegan Hipgrace to name a few recent ones, and more and more will follow. At the younger age groups Will Evans has returned amongst others.
The Titans have also picked up Tristian Powell who is playing as well as any U18 player in Queensland at the moment.
I can also guarantee that the Titans spoke to a few boys who have recently moved on and were right in the mix for them to stay. It is not in the media because we are not a club that is a media darling but we were seriously close to keeping a few and for that matter we have. In some of those articles ignore the crap about the Titans not being interested etc, that is flat out wrong!
I know that I am bias but you just have to look at the Tweed Heads MM Cup winning side, more than half are either contracted or have links to the Titans. The likes of Juwan Campain and Carsil Vaikai to name but two are incredible talents, the equal of any in Australia in the U18 age group.
Another indicator is that only four boys from outside Sydney made the NSW U16 Emerging Origin squad this year, three were Titans being Thomas Weaver, Ryan Foran and Riley Lack. Throw in the likes by Bailey Martin who is playing in the PBC Open A side and impressing against players two years older and you can see the Titans are moving forward quickly.
Also look at the outstanding Burleigh Colt side with Jaxson Paulo, Jayden Campbell, Kea Pere, Darius Farmer, Luke Maiden and the previously mentioned Tristian Powell etc to see how bright our future is.
Also Treamin Spry and Ioane Seuili even though they are still U20 eligible are playing exceptionally well in the Queensland Cup for Tweed Heads, Ioane is U20 next year as well which is a scary thought in terms of how good he is going to be. I anticipate Titan Ben Thomas will be the next to make his Queensland Cup debut for Tweed Heads.
When the Queensland U16, U18 and U20 sides are named shortly, please do not get too frustrated if not too many Titans boys are selected as it will NOT be a reflection on the boys or the Titans it will be a reflection on the selectors.
Mdrew-what went wrong in our inability to identify Briton Nikora?
Ipswich tomorrow night, GG on Saturday, to Brisbane on Sunday and then to schoolboy boy on Wednesday night to watch the future Titans play
Hard I appreciate all, but the Titans really do have a lot of talented junior coming through who are going to be outstanding long term Titans players.
Sincere apologies for not advising that Titans contracted Kobie Mackay-Taylor was selected in the Qld White side for the ASSRL U15 Championships. One of five Titans contracted players.
RenegadeGC
10-05-19, 09:15 AM
In relation to Briton Nikora mate, I will put my hand up and say I did not think that he would be so good so quickly, thought he would be a good player, but I absolutely dropped the ball on him.
Also as supporters we have to be a bit wary of reacting to these articles as we have no idea whether the Titans talked to him prior to his move or not. Understandably the article acknowledges him and the Sharks but does not go any further.
I can guarantee you and everyone on this forum that the Titans are working very very hard in relation to junior development but can not keep all of the boys that have played on the Coast, some move on for money (there is incredible money being thrown around by some clubs), some because they see a better opportunity elsewhere, some because their families have links to other NRL clubs etc.
Increasingly more and more are coming back though including Jesse Arthars, Jai Whitbread and Keegan Hipgrace to name a few recent ones, and more and more will follow. At the younger age groups Will Evans has returned amongst others.
The Titans have also picked up Tristian Powell who is playing as well as any U18 player in Queensland at the moment.
I can also guarantee that the Titans spoke to a few boys who have recently moved on and were right in the mix for them to stay. It is not in the media because we are not a club that is a media darling but we were seriously close to keeping a few and for that matter we have. In some of those articles ignore the crap about the Titans not being interested etc, that is flat out wrong!
I know that I am bias but you just have to look at the Tweed Heads MM Cup winning side, more than half are either contracted or have links to the Titans. The likes of Juwan Campain and Carsil Vaikai to name but two are incredible talents, the equal of any in Australia in the U18 age group.
Another indicator is that only four boys from outside Sydney made the NSW U16 Emerging Origin squad this year, three were Titans being Thomas Weaver, Ryan Foran and Riley Lack. Throw in the likes by Bailey Martin who is playing in the PBC Open A side and impressing against players two years older and you can see the Titans are moving forward quickly.
Also look at the outstanding Burleigh Colt side with Jaxson Paulo, Jayden Campbell, Kea Pere, Darius Farmer, Luke Maiden and the previously mentioned Tristian Powell etc to see how bright our future is.
Also Treamin Spry and Ioane Seuili even though they are still U20 eligible are playing exceptionally well in the Queensland Cup for Tweed Heads, Ioane is U20 next year as well which is a scary thought in terms of how good he is going to be. I anticipate Titan Ben Thomas will be the next to make his Queensland Cup debut for Tweed Heads.
When the Queensland U16, U18 and U20 sides are named shortly, please do not get too frustrated if not too many Titans boys are selected as it will NOT be a reflection on the boys or the Titans it will be a reflection on the selectors.
Not wrong MDrew. Those QLD sides are heavily favored towards Broncs. I expect Tristan Powell should be a shoe in for QLD 18s as well as a number of Tweed players.
Will be interesting to see who is named in QLD u20s side like you mentioned some players are performing rather well.
Burleigh has an abundance of depth from ISC down to MMC which is a credit to the Titans and probably why the Burleigh Colts are one of the competition heavyweights (most are local juniors). Next weeks top of table clash with Pride should be a cracker I wish it was at Pizzey.
And Tweed are also performing well in the Colts with a lot of local players there as well.
Tiger Rawlings who played the 2018 season with the Tweed Heads Seagulls U17 Division One side will play his first match for his new side when he lines up for Runaway Bay at five eight in Round Three of the U18 Division Two competition this weekend against Burleigh.
After playing for Nerang in Round One of the U18 Division One competition, Taanei Heu will start from the bench for his new club Currumbin in their Round Three U18 Division One match on Sunday against Bilambil.
The tall strong young front rower played the 2018 season for Nerang in the U16 Division One competition playing in nine matches including the finals series.
In Week Two of the U16 Division One Finals, Taanei Heu started in the front row and scored as Nerang progressed with a 32 – 22 win over Currumbin.
Taanei Heu also started in the front row in the U16 Division One 2018 Grand Final once again against Currumbin and once again Nerang prevailed winning 24 – 8.
In the 2018 U16 Division One regular season, Taanei Heu scored an additional two tries the first of which came in Round One against Runaway Bay and Taanei Heu scored again against Runaway Bay late in the regular season.
Taanei Heu was also part of the 2018 Gold Coast Vikings White side that took part in the South East Queensland U16 Challenge and from there was selected in the South East Queensland White side for the Queensland Age Championships, playing all four of those matches including the Championship Final against South East Queensland Green.
Taanei Heu’s other matches for South East Queensland Green at the Queensland Age Championships were against SEQ White in the qualifying rounds, Central and Northern.
For the Nerang Roosters U15 Division One side in 2017 Taanei Heu played in eleven matches including their Grand Final victory over Helensvale and scored against Southport early in the season for his sole try of the season. Taanei Heu also played one match up in the U16 Division Two competition which came against the Ormeau Shearers in early July.
The PBC student was part of the South Coast Maori representative side as well in 2017.
A couple of players with Titans links (some previous) were part of the NSW Combined High Schools Schoolboy rugby side that went to South Africa to take part in the St Johns College Easter Rugby Festival being Caleb Barker (named best back) and Ashdon Randall (named best player).
On Day One NSW CHS defeated St Albans College 22-7 and on Day Two they defeated Noordheuwel High School 39 – 19 with their Day Three match abandoned due to lightning very early in the first half.
Both players who have played in Titans junior development sides play for the Grafton Ghosts in Northern New South Wales.
Caleb Barker is currently playing for the Ghosts in the Group Two U18 competition and has also played one Reserve grade game this season.
In his NRL debut last night Jesse Arthars played 53 minutes on the left wing, running for 108 metres (28 post contact), broke one tackle, played the ball at an average speed for 2.95 seconds and made three tackles.
Results from Round Three of the Titans various school competitions:
Titans Shield –
Keebra Park 20 Nerang SHS 0
Windaroo SHS 54 St Francis College 12
Forest Lake SHS 46 Beenleigh 4
Trinity College 52 Chisholm College 0
Marymount College 24 St Michael’s College 12
Titans Trohpy –
Loganlea SHS 24 Windaroo SHS 4
Trinity College 16 Chisholm College 8
Titans Challenge-
Windaroo SHS 22 St Francis College 46
Stretton College 50 Beenleigh 4
Marymount College 20 Coombabah SHS (2) 0
Coombabah SHS 20 Varsity College 0
Titans Cup-
Marymount College 22 Aquinas College 2
In Round Two of the Ipswich Rugby League U14 competition, Titans linked young front rower Larry Siala scored his second ty from as many matches as his Norths Ipswich side defeated Springfield 44-0.
Final Gold Coast Vikings U13 squad announced. Well done to all boys in the side and who trialled.
A number of these young men have already donned a Titans jersey
https://www.rlgc.com.au/single-post/2019/05/10/UNDER-13-VIKINGS-TEAM-ANNOUNCED
Final Gold Coast Vikings U14 squad announced. Well done to all boys in the side and who trialled.
A number of these young men have already donned a Titans jersey.
https://www.rlgc.com.au/single-post/2019/05/10/UNDER-14-VIKINGS-TEAM-ANNOUNCED
Titans linked Norths Ipswich fullback David Neller had a big night out in Round Two of the Ipswich Rugby League U14 competition scoring two tries and kicking five goals as Norths defeated Springfield 44 – 0.
Through the opening two rounds David Neller has now scored 24 points from three tries and six goals.
Powerful Titans contracted centre/wing Orlando Swain backed up the try he scored in Round One of the Ipswich Rugby League U16 competition by scoring a double in Round Two as his Norths Ipswich side defeated West End 40 – 12.
Mr Bods
10-05-19, 05:40 PM
Thanks mdrew
That just sucks that the selectors are Drongoe biased
It was a battle of the Titans contracted forwards tonight with Nicholas Hilton (front row) and Arama Hau (second row) and their U15 Division One Runaway Bay team mates defeated Joseph Shannon and Seth Nikotemo (both front row) in the Southport side 34-10.
After missing a few matches it is good to see Braden Amundsen back for the Helensvale GCRL U20 side in their Round Seven match against Mudgeeraba.
The Hastings Deering's Colts competition is having a bye week thus you would think players would be looking for a break but Titans linked Jayden Campbell instead of putting his feet up has been named on the bench for Helensvale in their Round Seven match against Mudgeeraba.
He has been in incredible try scoring form this season in both the Hastings Deering's Colts competition and the GCRL U20 competition.
After playing off the bench in his first game in the GCRL U20 competition, Cole Geyer (who is U18 eligible) moves into the Currumbin starting side at hooker for their Round Seven match against Burleigh.
Powerful young second rower Siaosi Havea scored his first tries since his move from Sydney last night scoring a double when he started in the second row for Ormeau in their Round Three U15 Division One loss to Helensvale 28-12.
Ji Van Heerwaarden who has played well starting for the Tweed Heads Seagulls Hastings Deering's Colts side in the front row in recent rounds has been named to make his Gold Coast Rugby League First Grade debut tomorrow for Currumbin (starting at lock) in Round Seven against Bilambil. The Hastings Deerings Colts competition is having a bye round.
He is U20 eligible again in 2020.
19 year old Leighmon Hohaia Katene will make his GCRL First Grade debut in Round Seven when he starts at half for Ormeau against Tugun.
He has played the first six rounds in the Doug Lipp Cup scoring two tries and kicking three goals.
16 all draw between two of the best sides in the GCRL U16 Division One competition last night in Round Three between Burleigh and Runaway Bay with a few Titans contracted boys on the field.
Talented second row prospect Joshua Stothard who is playing in the NRRRL U18 competition this season is moving from Evans Head to Lismore Marist Brothers. HE is also U18 eligible in 2020.
After playing Round One of the 2019 GCRL U18 Division One competition with Nerang, former Queensland U16 hooker Lachlan Adamson is moving to Burleigh and will be a very good addition to their U18 Division One side.
Earlier this season Lachlan Adamson played a number of matches at hooker for the Burleigh Bears MM Cup side and the Keebra Park student will be MM Cup eligible once again in 2020.
After playing his first game for Burleigh last weekend at half for the Bears U18 Division Two side, Taine Ujdur-Berghan moves to fullback for Round Three this afternoon against Runaway Bay this afternoon.
In Round Two after playing in Div Two he was on the bench for the U18 Division One side, he may do the same this weekend.
After playing Round One of the 2019 GCRL U18 Division One competition with Nerang, former Queensland U16 hooker Lachlan Adamson is moving to Burleigh and will be a very good addition to their U18 Division One side.
Earlier this season Lachlan Adamson played a number of matches at hooker for the Burleigh Bears MM Cup side and the Keebra Park student will be MM Cup eligible once again in 2020.
Good little player. I think he is tied to the Bulldogs at the moment though (although that all seems to change pretty quick lately).
The new u18 comp doesn’t seem to be launching as smoothly as they hoped. Seems to be a bit of frustration across kids, clubs and families.
Starting at lock Titan Zac Johnson scores his first try of the 2019 U15 Division One season last night (his second game of the season) as Helensvale over came Ormeau 28-12.
Titans contracted Te Haeata Takamore celebrated last weeks South Coast U15 success by scoring a double last night for Helensvale in their Round Three 28-12win over Ormeau.
Titans contracted fullback Kobie Mackey-Taylor scored a double last night in Round Three of the GCRL U15 Division One competition for Helensvale as they defeated Ormeau 28-12.
Instead of taking advantage of the bye giant Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts outside back Gerard Ah-Nau will play his first match in the Gold Coast Rugby League U20 competition this season when he starts in the second row in Round Seven for Southport against Runaway Bay tomorrow
Burleigh Bears Hastings Deerings Colts half Cameron Brown instead of putting his feet up this weekend started at five eight today in Round Seven of the GCRL U20 competition for Helensvale against Mudgeeraba.
From a Guy with first hand knowledge (you know who you are mate) Titans contracted Kaden Somerville has been simply outstanding through the opening three rounds of the U16 Division One competition for Burleigh.
Kaden Somerville has been outstanding at hooker for the Titans against Balmain late last year and also against Newcastle earlier this year but has played the opening three rounds of the U16 Division One competition at lock including Burleigh's 16 all draw last night against Runaway Bay.
Former Gold Coast rugby player Maximus Rameka-Vea played his third game of rugby league on Friday night when he lined up for Southport in their U16 Division One match against Ormeau.
In 2018 he was part of the Griffith University Colleges side that won the 2018 GCRU U15 competition 47-19 against the Helensvale Hogs. The match was played as a curtain raiser to a Wallabies International at CBus stadium.
Great start by Tweed Heads in the National U18 final with Xavier Coates scoring Tweed lead 6-0
Now 6-4. The commentary on the live stream is a disgrace, the Broncos contracted boys are all super stars and NRL players in waiting but they refuse to note any other Tweed players from other NRL clubs. Pathetic
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Mr Bods
12-05-19, 11:35 AM
Keep me coming please mdrew!!!
Go Gulls!!
18-4 to Tweed at half time
24-4 to Tweed early in the second half
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42-4 now to Tweed
lonegull
12-05-19, 12:09 PM
Is Xavier Coates part of theTEDS program
No mate he is a Bronco
Is Xavier Coates part of theTEDS program
Mr Bods
12-05-19, 12:16 PM
Still does my head in how the expertise that we put on juniors at PBC/Seagulls in the case of these kids then gets shipped off up the M1 to The Dodge City Drongoes a club that doesn’t respect our right to even exist.
Go Gulls
Tweed Heads are National U18 Champions with a 48-14 win over Illawarra
Mr Bods
12-05-19, 12:24 PM
Unreal. What a domination.
RenegadeGC
12-05-19, 12:30 PM
Still does my head in how the expertise that we put on juniors at PBC/Seagulls in the case of these kids then gets shipped off up the M1 to The Dodge City Drongoes a club that doesn’t respect our right to even exist.
Go Gulls
How many are Titans Contracted?
Nine of the seventeen have Titans links including five of the starting forward pack that were so dominant
How many are Titans Contracted?
Classy Burleigh and Keebra Park centre Kalahni-Jai Lawrence scored yesterday for the Bears in their Round three U14 Division One 36-4 win over Helensvale.
Burleigh U14 Division One second rower and Keebra Park student Philip Hakaraia-Ngomotu scored yesterday in Round Three as the Bears defeated Helensvale 36-4.
This is his first year on the Gold Coast after playing for Brothers St Brendan's in the GBJRL competition in 2018.
It is more than interesting to see a couple of former Logan Brothers players playing the last fortnight with Gatton in the Toowoomba Rugby League U18 competition.
Outstanding second row prospect Stanley Jackson, front rower Faaleo Aholahi, (both in late 2018 per selected in the Burleigh MM Cup side) and fullback Tyler Han all played this morning for Gatton as they defeated Oakey 86-4, with Jackson and Aholahi both scoring.
In the previous match for Gatton Tyler Han scored a hat trick and Stanley Jackson also scored.
I should note that Tyler Han played some matches for Gatton last year.
Thanks for the heads up mate.
In his first season on the Gold Coast former Penrith region junior Matari Donovan started in the centre and scored for the Burleigh U14 Division One side yesterday in their Round Three 36-4 win over Helensvale.
A number of boys with plenty of GCRL junior games under their belt were present for the TSS First XV side that defeated Brisbane State High School 57-12 in a GPS school boy rugby trial late yesterday afternoon.
Young Helensvale centre Junior Filimaua has had a busy start to the 2019 GCRL season, playing in the U14 Division One competition he has started all three rounds at centre scoring in Round One against Southport and scoring yesterday against Burleigh in round Three being the Hornets sole try.
HE has also played Round Two and Three off the bench for the Helensvale U15 Division One side including on Friday night against Ormeau.
In Round One of the Group One junior rugby league competition last weekend Ballina youngster Lachlan Offley scored a hat trick and kicked a conversion in Ballina's U14 34-6 win over South Grafton.
In 2018 the Seagulls youngster scored 21 tries and kicked 13 goals for a points haul of 110 from just 13 games in the Group One U13 competition.
Clarence Coast's Reece Warburton had a day out in Round One of the Group One U14 competition last weekend scoring five tries and kicking two goals as Clarence Coast defeated Lismore Marist Brothers 56-0.
In the U13 Group One competition in 2018 Reece Warburton played 11 games scoring 116 points from 22 tries and 14 goals. He also played in 8 U14 matches scoring four tries.
Titans linked Kye Cooper started off the Group One 2019 rugby league where he left off in 2018 by scoring a double and kicking two goals in Round One last weekend for Ballina as they defeated South Grafton 34-6 in the Group One U14 competition.
IN 2018 Kye Cooper scored 240 points from 40 tries and 40 goals in just 14 U13 Group One matches.
Bayside Titan
13-05-19, 02:41 PM
Does anyone know which 8 of the Tweed under 18 side we have contracted to us ? Thanks in advance.
Does anyone know which 8 of the Tweed under 18 side we have contracted to us ? Thanks in advance.
Off the top of my head,
1 Reece Walsh. (Broncos)
2 Troy Duckett (Titans links)
3 Xavier Coates (Broncos)
4 Caleb Hodges (Titans)
5 Jake Martin
6 Kade Hill (Titans I think but not certain)
7 Toby Sexton (Bulldogs)
8 Ben Liyou (Titans)
9 Ediq Ambrosyev (Titans)
10 Solomon Torrens (Titans)
11 Juwan Compain (Titans)
12 Brendan Piakura (Titans I think)
13 Carsil Vaikai (Titans)
14 Joshua Bevan (Roosters)
15 Israel Higgins (Roosters)
16 James Torrens
17 Isiah Perrett
Like I said this is just from memory and what I know. Not definitive.
Kade Hill is Bulldogs, Brendan is Broncos and Jake Martin and James Torrens are Titans
Off the top of my head,
1 Reece Walsh. (Broncos)
2 Troy Duckett (Titans links)
3 Xavier Coates (Broncos)
4 Caleb Hodges (Titans)
5 Jake Martin
6 Kade Hill (Titans I think but not certain)
7 Toby Sexton (Bulldogs)
8 Ben Liyou (Titans)
9 Ediq Ambrosyev (Titans)
10 Solomon Torrens (Titans)
11 Juwan Compain (Titans)
12 Brendan Piakura (Titans I think)
13 Carsil Vaikai (Titans)
14 Joshua Bevan (Roosters)
15 Israel Higgins (Roosters)
16 James Torrens
17 Isiah Perrett
Like I said this is just from memory and what I know. Not definitive.
Bayside Titan
13-05-19, 04:54 PM
Thanks mdrew. Good on them for winning the Australian Title.
Kade Hill is Bulldogs, Brendan is Broncos and Jake Martin and James Torrens are Titans
Well I did alright for a guess ;)
Winger Matthew Avery who as involved in the title winning Northern Rivers Titans U16 Andrew Johns Cup squad started Round One of the Group One U16.5 competition off last weekend by scoring a double as his Casino RSM side defeated Kyogle 22-20.
In Round Four of the Group Two U18 competition last weekend talented former Titans junior development squad member Caleb Barker scored a double but Grafton went down 36-14 to Coffs Harbour.
PBC hooker Tyler Creecy scored his first try of the season for Currumbin in Round Two on the weekend as the Eagles defeated Bilambil 30-4 in the GCRL U18 Division One competition.
Former Titans junior Development Squad member Jack Kenworthy has had a consistent start to the 2019 GCRL U18 Division One competition, scoring a try and kicking two conversions in each of the opening two rounds for Helensvale including on the weekend against Mudgeeraba when he started at five eight.
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The 2018 season which saw him play the entire year up in the U15 age group even though he was still U14 eligible. Jamal Laurie has been playing “up” an age group for the last couple of seasons in fact.
Jamal Laurie also represented Group One at the U14 level at the New South Wales Country Age Championships in 2018.
For South Grafton in the Group One U15 competition, Jamal Laurie played in fifteen matches finish with eleven tries which was good enough to finish the season as the competitions fourth leading try scorer.
Jamal Laurie scored doubles against Kyogle and Clarence Coast and also scored against Lismore Marist Brothers in four separate matches and also scored against Casino RSM in two matches and also against Clarence Coast.
In the U14 New South Wales Country Age Championships for Group One Jamal Laurie played in all four of Group One’s matches scoring in all of them including the Northern Plate Final against Group 19 which Group One won 38 – 12.
Jamal Laurie’s other three tries came against Groups Nine and Four as well as Newcastle. To say that Jamal Laurie had an outstanding U14 New South Wales Country Age Championships would be an understatement.
Titans linked Daniel Butterini was on song in Round Two of the GCRL U18 Division One competition on the weekend scoring a try and kicking five goals for Currumbin as they defeated Bilambil 30-4. HE started the match in the centres for the Eagles.
He is a local young centre originally from just south of the border, who is part of the Titans High Performance Program and is also at PBC State High School as part of their Rugby League excellence program.
In 2019 Daniel Butterini was part of the Tweed Heads Seagulls MM Cup squadbut did not feature in any of their matches, however he is still U18 eligible in 2020.
Daniel Butterini was also part of the Titans U15 squad that played against a Balmain Tigers selection late in 2017 year, in that match Daniel Butterini spent the majority of the game in the centres.
At the start of the 2018 season, Daniel Butterini was part of the Gold Coast Vikings Yellow side that competed in the U16 South East Queensland Challenge and post that competition was called up to be part of the South East Queensland Green side for the Queensland U16 Age Championships playing all four of their matches including the Championship final which SEQ Green won 30 – 18 SEQ White.
Daniel Butterini played his club rugby league this season with Currumbin playing in twelve U16 Division One matches including the finals series scoring three tries in total, including a double against Mudgeeraba and also scored early in the season against Runaway Bay.
Daniel Butterini started for Currumbin in the 2018 U16 Division One Grand Final but was on the losing side with Nerang coming out victorious 24 – 8.
Daniel Butterini also played one match in 2018 in the U17 Division One competition with that match coming against the Bilambil Jets late in the 2018 season.
Daniel Butterini was selected this season in the South Coast U15 QSSRL side in 2017. Earlier in the 2017 season Daniel Butterini was also selected in the Group 18 U15 squad after representing Group 18 at the U14 level in 2016 where he played primarily at fullback in the New South Wales Country Age Championships.
In late 2015 Daniel Butterini was named on the wing for the Titans U13 development squad for their match against a Toowoomba U14 selection, but unfortunately he did not participate in the match due to injury. In 2014 Daniel Butterini was named in the New South Wales North Coast U12 rugby league side from the Burringbar Public School in Murwillumbah.
Outstanding Titans linked Damon Coldwell’s 2019 Group One U15 rugby league campaign got off to an impressive start in Round One last weekend when he scored a double for Lismore Marist Brothers as they defeated Clarence Coast 20-14.
Damon Coldwell was a solid contributor to the Titans U15 side that played a fellow Titans side and Western Mustangs side at Mudgeeraba in February 2019.
The outstanding young Lismore Marist Brothers flyer played an incredible amount of football in 2018 both rugby league and rugby and 2019 figures to be a similar situation for the Ballina Coast High School student with his selection in the Titans 2018/19 Group 18 U15 Development Squad.
2018 also saw Damon Coldwell represent Group One in the 2018 U14 New South Wales Country Age Championships.
From a club rugby league perspective, Damon Coldwell played the 2018 season with Lismore in the U14 Group One competition, finishing as the competitions fourth highest try scorer with 17 tries from just fourteen matches finishing with a 121% strike rate.
Damon Coldwell scored a late season hat trick against Grafton and doubles against Casino RSM, Kyogle, Grafton and Ballina two matches in consecutive matches in July 2018. Damon Coldwell also scored in matches against Ballina, Kyogle and Clarence Coast.
In addition Damon Coldwell played in three Group One U16.5 matches in 2018, making his debut against Kyogle in May and also playing in matches against South Grafton and Casino RSM over the course of the season.
In the U14 New South Wales Country Age Championships for Group One Damon Coldwell played in all four of Group One’s matches including the Northern Plate Final against Group 19 which Group One won 38 – 12. In the Final Damon Coldwell scored an outstanding hat trick and also scored earlier in the Championships against Newcastle, a try which he scored with five minutes to go to seal the victory for Group One.
Damon Coldwell also played club rugby in 2018 in two separate competitions being the U14 Far North Coast competition for Wollongbar/Alstonville where a team mate was fellow Titans Development Squad member and Ballina Coast High School student Desmond Ferguson and the Gold Coast U15 rugby competition also for Wollongbar/Alstonville with Desmond Ferguson once again being a team mate.
In the 2018 U14 Far Norther Coast competition, Damon Coldwell played in eight matches, including starting the Grand Final in the centres in their 15 – 0 loss against Casuarina/Tweed and scored sixteen tries.
Damon Coldwell scored four tries in Round Ten against Lismore, hat tricks against Lennox Head in Rounds Five and Nine and also scored doubles in matches against Lismore in Rounds Four and Seven and against Lennox Head in the first week of the Finals.
Damon Coldwell came into the U14 Wollongbar/Alstonville side in Round Four against Lismore starting on the bench. He started on the right wing in Round Five against Lennox Head for his first start before starting on the bench again in Round Seven against Lismore.
Damon Coldwell broke into the starting side for good in Round Eight against Casuarina/Tweed when he started in the centres where he stayed for the remainder of the season.
In 2018, Damon Coldwell also played eight matches for Wollongbar/Alstonville in the Gold Coast Rugby U15 competition playing his first match in Round Two against the Helensvale Hogs celebrating with a try after starting the match on the right wing.
Damon Coldwell also scored a double in Round Nine against Casino and also scored in Rounds Three and Eight against the Gold Coast Eagles and PBC Alleygators respectively.
Damon Coldwell played four matches on the right wing, one on the left wing (Round Three against the Gold Coast Eagles) and three at outside centre in Rounds Eight to Ten against PBC Alleygators, Casino and Surfers Dolphins respectively.
2018 also saw Damon Coldwell represent Far North Coast region in touch alongside Titans contracted Rowan Mansfield.
Outstanding Helensvale U13 Division One five eight Coby Black continued to show why he was asked to start at five eight for the Titans U13 side earlier this season in Round Three on the weekend scoring two tries and kicking two goals as his Helensvale side defeated Coomera 28-10 on Suturday.
Titans contracted Rowan Mansfield was part of the Group One U16.5 Ballina side that went down in Round One to South Grafton.
Rowan Mansfield has already played a number of matches in Titans colours including starting at fullback for the Titans U16 side in their match against the Newcastle Knights. Unfortunately an injury meant that Rowan Mansfield was not able to see out the match.
Rowan Mansfield also was part of the Titans U15 side when they defeated the Western Mustangs six tries to three at Nerang in March 2018.
In that match Rowan Mansfield lined up at right centre where he opposed the talented Blake Cesseri from the Western Mustangs and more than held his own over the course of the match.
In late 2018 Rowan Mansfield started at fullback for the Titans U15 side as they defeated a U15 Balmain Tigers touring side 16 – 10 with Rowan Mansfield scoring an outstanding try.
In the first half Rowan Mansfield was dangerous with the ball and also scored early when he looked to step his way through the Balmain Tigers forward pack from close range and was also dangerous chiming into the backline off Titans scrum wins especially to the right side of the field.
In the second half Rowan Mansfield moved onto the right wing and scored an outstanding try highlighting his outstanding speed. The try was constructed in the inside through a chain of passes from Thomas Weaver through Jye Gray to Kaleb Ngamanu who put Rowan Mansfield into a gap down the sideline. Rowan Mansfield used an outstanding in and away to beat the Balmain fullback to score untouched after a seventy metre run just to the right of the goal posts.
Rowan Mansfield is just one of a number of talented Northern Rivers juniors that have recently (the last year or so) linked with the Titans, a list also including second rower Ben Liyou, half Kel Sheather and centre/second rower Ethan Foster amongst others.
In Round One of the U18 Andrew Johns Cup competition this season, Rowan Mansfield partnered fellow Titan Keegan Pace in the centres for the Northern Rivers Titans in their match against the Newcastle Knights Development Squad, with Rowan Mansfield operating on the left side of the field.
Even though he was playing on the left, Rowan Mansfield’s first break was made on the right when he looped around a Titans scrum win on their own twenty metre line and drove twenty metres down field before being brought down.
Rowan Mansfield also made a great break down the left tough line after a great Jack Cullen offload and was a deserved try scorer for the Titans when he took a pass off the dummy half around twenty metres out from the Newcastle try lien and proceeded to power through the defensive line to score.
In the match, Rowan Mansfield on two occasions was able to pin Newcastle defenders in the in goal highlighting his enthusiasm. Both kicks were from fellow Titan Thomas Weaver.
Round Two of the 2019 Andrew Johns Cup competition saw Rowan Mansfield once again line up in the left centre position in their match against Parramatta. Rowan Mansfield did not see too much of the ball in the match but was still able to score for the Northern Rivers Titans in a try that was similar to his Round One try as he exploded onto a dummy half pass and through seer speed and power dragged a couple of Parramatta players over the try line.
Round Three against the North Coast Bulldogs once again saw Rowan Mansfield start at left centre for the Northern Rivers Titans and once again he was outstanding on the way to scoring a double. Rowan Mansfield’s first try was a long range effort when he took a pass from fellow Titans and front rower Jack Cullen to spring sixty metres down the left touch line. Rowan Mansfield also scored the final try of the match when he pouched on a North Coast mistake in their own in goal.
After starting the opening three rounds of the Andrew Johns Cup at left centre, Round Four against the Central Coast Roosters saw Rowan Mansfield move back to fullback.
After a week at fullback, Rowan Mansfield moved back to the centres for the Round Five match against the Greater Northern Tigers starting at left centre and scored an outstanding long range try when he exploded down the left touch line in a seventy run to the line easily outpacing the Greater Northern Tigers cover defence.
In the semi-final against Penrith Rowan Mansfield had arguably his best match of the Andrew Johns Cup competition from his usual right centre position. He was aggressive in both attack and defence and made some telling runs out of dummy half for the Northern Rivers Titans as well as some aggressive defence on his opposite Penrith centre.
In the 2019 U16 Andrew Johns Cup Grand Final against the Western Rams Rowan Mansfield started at left centre and scored an outstanding try, the second of the match for the Titans in their outstanding 18 – 6 win.
At a scrum in front of the Western Rams posts, the Titans stacked the right side but instead the ball went to Rowan Mansfield on the left, he got outside of his direct opponent with speed before close to the line opposing winger came in to make the tackle. Rowan Mansfield literally ran straight through him to score in the corner.
Post the victory Rowan Mansfield was named on the wing for the New South Wales Country U16 side for their November two match tour of the United Kingdom.
Even though Rowan Mansfield was still U16 eligible this season, he made his NRRRL U18 debut in Round Four for Ballina in their 18 – 12 win over Murwillumbah.
In 2018 in the Group One U15 competition, Rowan Mansfield played in eleven matches, including the finals scoring five tries. Each of Rowans Mansfield regular season’s tries came from individual matches and were scored against, South Grafton, Clarence Coast on two occasions and against Casino RSM.
On the first Saturday of the Group One finals, Rowan Mansfield scored for Ballina in their 26 - 4 Group One U15 semi-final victory over South Grafton.
In the Grand Final Rowan Mansfield and his Ballina team mates went down to a committed South Grafton Rebels side 16 – 0 in a defensive tussle.
Rowan Mansfield also played in three Group One U16.5 matches, making his debut against Clarence Coast in early August scoring on debut.
Earlier in 2018 Rowan Mansfield was part of the New South Wales Combined High Schools (NSW CHS) U15 side that participated in the ASSRL U15 national Championships, being one of ten Titans involved in the Championships. NSW Combined High School Titans team mates were second rower Ryan Foran and fullback/centre Riley Lack.
At the 2018 New South Wales Country U15 Championships Rowan Mansfield was named in the centres for the Group One U15 side.
In Group One’s Round One U15 match against Newcastle Rowan Mansfield started in the centres with Group One winning 22 – 18 against Newcastle and Rowan Mansfield scoring a double.
In Group One’s second match of the Championships Rowan Mansfield kicking a conversion as Group One ran out 28 – 6 winners against Group Three.
Group One won their Northern Cup semi-final against Group 19 before going down 10 – 6 against Group Two in the U15 new South Wales Country Northern Cup Final.
Rowan Mansfield played four matches at the U16 ASSRL Championships primarily at fullback and scored against New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges.
Rowan Mansfield was recently named in the 2019 Northern Rivers Titans U16 side for the Andrew Johns Cup.
Early in 2017 Rowan Mansfield represented Group One U14’s in the New South Wales Age Championships were he was named in the centres. In those Championships, Rowan Mansfield was absolutely outstanding on his way to scoring four tries from just three matches, including a Round One hat trick against Group 14 and in Round Three he scored against the Central Coast.
For the 2017 season Rowan Mansfield was the leading try scorer in the Group One U14 competition scoring 23 tries from just twelve matches. Rowan Mansfield scored five in a match against Marist Brothers and also had hat tricks against the Grafton Ghosts and South Grafton Rebels.
In a seven match span to start the 2017 season Rowan Mansfield scored an incredible nineteen tries. Rowan Mansfield was in fact named the U14 Ballina Seagulls Best and Fairest for the 2017 Group One U14 season.
Rowan Mansfield also played eight matches in the 2017 Group One U15 competition scoring against Casino RSM. On six of the eight occasions that Rowan Mansfield played U15’s he was backing up from the U14 contest earlier in the day.
In the 2016 season Rowan Mansfield scored an amazing 35 tries in only 13 games to finish the leading try scorer by 13 tries, adding in his two conversions, Rowan Mansfield had a total points tally of 144 on the season in the U13 Group One Junior Rugby League competition and added another six tries from as many games in the U14 age group.
In the U13 competition in 2016, Rowan Mansfield was only kept try less on one occasion in 2016, being against Lismore Marist Brothers in the last match of the season. Rowan Mansfield scored six tries in a match against Kyogle and five also against Kyogle earlier in the season and on four occasions, scored four tries in a match which came against Casino RSM on two separate occasions and against Grafton and South Grafton.
Rowan Mansfield also scored two hat tricks, coming against Lismore Marist Brothers on two separate occasions. At the U14 level, Rowan Mansfield scored two doubles which came against Grafton and Kyogle.
U18 National Final highlights
https://www.titans.com.au/news/2019/05/13/copley-we-panic-too-much/
PBC are up against St Mary’s in Toowoomba tomorrow night in Round Two if the Langer Cup.
Former PNG U16 rugby league representative Kien Selu started his second match on the weekend on the wing for Runaway Bay in the GCRL U20 competition who defeated Southport 26-4.
Outstanding interview with Tweed Heads Seagulls MM Cup captain and Titans contracted Carsil Vaikai from the Titans Official Site.
https://www.titans.com.au/news/2019/05/14/tweed-seagulls-claim-national-title/
For the second week in a row Tweed Heads Seagulls 2019 Hastings Deering’s Colts squad member Adyn Anguna had a busy weekend. Like the previous week he started the U20 match on the wing before playing for Runaway Bay in the Doug Lipp Cup contest.
Powerhouse Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts centre Gerard Ah-Nau took advantage of the Hastings Deering’s Colts bye week to play in the local competition, starting Round 8 of the First Grade competition in the centres for Southport and they defeated Runaway Bay 30-22.
It was his second GCRL First Grade match this season.
Former Titans junior development squad member Dorian Smith is making the most of his move from Nerang to Robina, starting in the centres this season in the GCRL U18 Division Two competition including starting Round Three but unfortunately the Raptors went down 30-18 to Beaudesert.
He will be eligible once again for the U18 age group in 2020.
Former Cabramatta junior Kalio Misa started in the second row for Coomera Blue in Round Three over the weekend for Coomera Blue in their 22-12 U16 Division Two loss to Robina 22-12. It was his second match on the Gold Coast since his move from the Parramatta region.
Coomera Gold U16 Division Two hooker Isaiah Kekena has been busy this season so far. He has played all three matches for Coomera Gold in the U16 Division Two competition and has also played two of the three U16 Division One matches.
Isaiah Kekena moved from Burleigh in the off-season.
Since his move from the Manurewa region of New Zealand young front rower Diandre Bevan has been plying his trade with the Coomera Blue side in the GCRL U16 Division Two competition, playing in the front row in all three of his matches including their Round Three loss to Robina 22-12.
Currumbin U18 Division Two winger Riley Ashby had a big match in Round Three scoring four tries as the Eagles defeated Southport 74-0.
Former Titans Junior Development Squad member Jordan Champion played his first match of the season in the GCRL U20 competition starting in the second row for Runaway Bay and scoring as the Seagulls defeated Southport 40-26.
Colts players took advantage of the fact that the Hastings Deering’s Colts competition had a bye, another player who was involved in the local U20 competition was Vinncent Takataka who started in the front row for Runaway Bay as they defeated Southport 40-26 in Round Seven.
This season he has played a number of matches for Tweed Heads in the Hastings Deering’s Colts competition.
Alex Drewe kept on his point’s scoring ways last weekend in Round Seven of the GCRL U20 competition kicking five goals as Helensvale overcame Mudgeeraba 38-32 in a tight contest.
Titans linked Xavier Atoa (Souths Acacia Ridge) and William Semu (Carina) went up against each other in Round Three of the GCJRL U14 Division One competition with Xavier Atoa’s Souths Acacia Ridge side prevailing 16-12 in a close match.
Titans linked Logan Brothers hooker Jacob Tinsley was on the winning side in Round Three of the U14 Division One GBJRL competition as his Logan Brothers side defeated Albany Creek 26-20 in Round Three over the weekend.
The Forest Lake State High School student who is part of their Rugby League Excellence Program started the match at hooker as per usual.
In their first game of 2019 Forest Lake with Jacob Tinsley playing had a great win over Keebra Park on the Gold Coast.
Jacob Tinsley played well at hooker for the Titans U14 side that defeated the Western Mustangs in February including an impressive 40/20 out of dummy half.
Jacob Tinsley also played a part in one of the Titans second half tries when right on the Western Mustangs line he scooted out of dummy half to his left before popping the ball back inside to one of the Titans front rowers to crash over, apologies I think that it was the No. 10 but I could not quite tell from my angle.
In 2018 Jacob Tinsley played nineteen matches for Logan Brothers in the U13 Premier Division of the GBJRL competition, the last being as Logan Brothers fell 40 – 10 to Redcliffe in the Preliminary Final.
Earlier in the 2018 season Jacob Tinsley started at hooker for Logan Brothers in their mid-season Chairman’s Trophy match against Carina with Logan Brothers going down in that match 26 – 18.
2018 also saw Jacob Tinsley named in the South East Queensland U13 representative side and in 2017 he represented Met West U12’s from Greenbank State High School being named as lock for the Queensland U12 School Boy Championships.
The NSW Country U16 side will play the NSW Harold Matthews U16 representative side at Penrith this Friday night in an NRL curtain raiser.
The NSW Country U16 side contains multiple Titans players including Rowan Mansfield *wing, Reef Sommerville (centre), Riley Lack (five eight), Tom Weaver (half) Jack Cullen (front row), Ryan Foran (second row), Noah Johannssen (front row interchange)and Keegan Pace (centre/wing interchange).
What a great experience for the boys.
In his first season on the Gold Coast Currumbin U18 Division Two five eight Hunter Rose had a huge game in Round Three scoring 30 points from a try scoring double and 11 goals as the Eagles defeated Southport 74-0.
Hunter Rose played the 2018 season with Warialda in the Group 19 U16 competition scoring three tries all of which came in matches against Moree.
Makau Waiapu has started the opening three rounds of the GCRL U13 Division One competition in the front row for Coomera.
The young Coomera Cutters forward was part of the Titans U13 side that defeated the Western Mustangs 40 – 12 at Mudgeeraba in February.
Earlier this season Makau Waiapu was also named in the Gold Coast Vikings U13 squad.
2018 saw Makau Waiapu play in the Gold Coast Rugby League U12 Division One competition for the Coomera Cutters, playing primarily in the second row. In his thirteen matches, including finals, Makau Waiapu amassed sixteen points from three tries and two goals.
Makau Waiapu’s three tries came in the opening three rounds against Mudgeeraba, Currumbin and Burleigh Maroon. In the Round One match Makau Waiapu kicked his first conversion and kicked his second in June against Burleigh White.
Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts player Codey McLaughlin was yet another player to take advantage of the Hastings Deering’s Colts competition’s bye week. He started from the bench and scored for Runaway Bay as they defeated Southport 40-26 in Round Seven.
His try was a good one too, late in the second half, Cody McLaughlin took a hit up to the left of the play the ball around ten metres out from the Southport line. It looked for all money that he was held and he even got his right arm free over his head looking to offload (he had be turned around and was facing his own try line), but instead he spun around breaking away from the three defenders that had hold of him to crash over.
Codey McLaughlin has been involved in every Tweed Heads Colts match this season either starting in the front row or from the bench and will start Round Ten this weekend off the bench against the Easts Tigers.
Codey McLaughlin was part of the 2018 Tweed Heads Seagulls MM side and post that competition has played in the GCRL U19, Doug Lipp Cup and First Grade competitions for Runaway Bay.
In the 2018 MM Cup competition for Tweed Heads, Codey McLaughlin played in five matches starting all five from the interchange bench and scoring twice. Codey McLaughlin’s first try came in Round Two against Victoria and he followed that with a try in Round Five against the Townsville Blackhawks.
For the 2019 U19 Runaway Bay side post the MM Cup competition Codey McLaughlin played in twelve regular season matches scoring six tries. Codey McLaughlin scored a Round Fourteen double against Mudgeeraba and also scored in Round Fifteen against Burleigh and well as in Round Seventeen against Beaudesert. Earlier in the season Codey McLaughlin scored against Bilambil and Ormeau to round out his seasons try scoring.
In the Doug Lipp Cup competition for Runaway Bay Cody McLaughlin played five regular season matches including starting Round Sixteen against Helensvale in the second row and Round Seventeen in the centres against Beaudesert, debuting against Currumbin and April.
Codey McLaughlin scored two regular season Doug Lipp Cup tries including scoring in just his second game at that level against Tugun and also scored in his starting debut against Helensvale in Round Sixteen.
In Week One of the GCRL Finals series, Codey McLaughlin started in the second row as well as scoring for Runaway Bay in their 40 – 12 win over Burleigh in the Doug Lipp Cup competition.
In Week Two of the GCRL Finals series, Codey McLaughlin started in the second row for Runaway Bay once again in their 25 – 4 win against Beaudesert.
Codey McLaughlin also started in the second row for Runaway Bay in the Doug Lipp Cup Preliminary Final against Currumbin with Runaway Bay going down by a solitary point 17 – 16 in a hard fought contest.
Codey McLaughlin made his deserved GCRL First Grade debut in late June coming off the bench for Runaway Bay against Tugun.
Codey McLaughlin played the 2017 season with the Helensvale Hornets in the GCRL U17 Division One competition including starting at five eight in Helensvale’s 34 – 20 Grand Final victory over Ormeau. Over the course of the U17 Division One 2017 season Codey McLaughlin played in thirteen matches scoring four tries in the process with the tries coming against Southport, Mudgeeraba, Runaway Bay and Burleigh.
For Gold Coast Green in the CC Cup competition in 2016, Codey McLaughlin played in all eight matches, starting the seven regular season games at right centre, but he started the quarter final on the right wing. Over the course of the CC season he scored three tries which came against the Easts Tigers in Rounds One and Six and also against Toowoomba in their quarter final loss, he also kicked two conversions in a Round Two win against local rivals Gold Coast White.
In addition in 2016 Codey McLaughlin also represented South East Queensland White in the Queensland Age Championships at the U16 level, and on Day Two scored a try and kicked two conversions in a win against South East Queensland Green and on Day Three kicked three conversions in a big 42-24 victory over the Northern Marlins.
Burleigh Colts half/five eight Cameron Brown was back in the local U20 competition for Round Seven on the weekend due to the Hastings Deering’s Colts competition bye, starting at five eight and scoring as Helensvale defeated Mudgeeraba 38-32.
Cameron Brown is back playing for the Burleigh Hastings Deering’s Colts side this weekend in Round Ten against the Northern Pride.
After a successful MM Cup campaign with Burleigh this season Cole Geyer made his first start in the GCRL U20 competition (he started Round Six from the bench) in Round Seven for Currumbin in their 52-28 win over Burleigh.
What a match he had scoring a hat trick, impressive considering that Cole Geyer bypassed the GCRL U18 Division One competition all together.
Two of his tries were simply outstanding individual efforts. In the first half, Cole Geyer took the ball from dummy half running to his left around forty metres out from the Burleigh line, he broke through the initial defensive line as a result of a dummy (Cole Geyer ran with the ball out in front of his body in two hands) and a step. As he was coming to the fullback Cole Geyer showed outstanding speed by literally running around him and then did the same to the Burleigh left winger who came back to try to tackle him to score in the right corner. The paly started on the left side of the field, highlighting Cole Geyer’s speed.
Cole Geyer’s try in the second half was no less impressive, Cole Geyer packed in at lock in a scrum with a Currumbin feed around sixty metres out from the Burleigh line. Cole Geyer picked up the ball from the back of the scrum running to his right. Once again Cole Geyer ran with the ball out in front of his body in two hands, putting the defence in doubt as to his intentions. As he was coming to the defensive line Cole Geyer just took off through a gap and then outpaced the cover defence in a sixty metre sprint to the try line to score out wide on the right.
Titans contracted Lofi Khan-Periera has been named on an extended bench for the Burleigh Hastings Deering’s Colts side for this weekend’s Round Ten match against the Northern Pride.
The young Burleigh Bears winger and current Keebra Park student in 2018 signed a new three year Development contract with the Titans after the expiration of his initial two year contract.
Lofi Khan-Periera started for the Titans U18 side in their match at Coffs Harbour against the Newcastle Knights SG Ball side in January of this year.
Lofi Khan-Periera has also recently been selected in the 2019 U18 Queensland Emerging Origin Squad with fellow Titans Will Evans, Tristian Powell and Juwan Compain.
Lofi Khan-Periera started the 2019 MM Cup season on the wing but moved to fullback for Round Three against the Tweed Heads Seagulls where he stayed for Round Four against the Townsville Blackhawks. In total in the 2019 MM Cup competition Lofi Khan-Periera played in four matches for Burleigh.
In early 2019 Lofi Khan-Periera started on the wing for the Titans U18’s in their match at Coffs Harbour against the Newcastle Knights U18 SG Ball squad which ended five tries all.
Lofi Khan-Periera started on the wing for the Titans U18 side in their late 2018 victory over the PNG U18 side at Burleigh and also started there and scored one of the Titans three tries as they defeated NSW Country U18’s the flowing week at Cudgen.
In the match against New South Wales Country U18’s Lofi Khan-Periera started on the right wing with his try being an intercept try which covered approximately 98 metres.
Lofi Khan-Periera started on the wing for the Burleigh Round One 2019 MM Cup side that drew 38 all after an impressive comeback by the Bears.
Lofi Khan-Periera represented South Coast at the QSSRL U18 Championships in Toowoomba in 2018 scoring a number of long range tries from the left wing and was in my eyes an unlucky omission from the Queensland U18 QSSRL side which contained fellow Titans contracted, South Coast representative and Keebra Park student front rower David Butler.
Lofi Khan-Periera has played a number of matches for Keebra Park this season including matches against PBC which they lost by two, points, and in wins over Wavell State High School and St Mary’s College who Keebra Park defeated 24 – 18. Keebra Park were knocked out at the Queensland Quarter Final stage by Marsden State High School in a bit of an upset.
Lofi Khan-Periera also played one or two matches for the Keebra Park B side and was awarded one point in the Open B Best Player Award race.
Lofi Khan-Periera started the 2018 season off in the MM Cup competition with the Burleigh Bears, playing in all six of Burleigh’s matches, starting four on the wing and two at fullback. Lofi Khan-Periera started the Bears first four matches on the wing before moving to fullback for the Round Six match against the Western Mustangs.
In his six matches Lofi Khan-Periera scored five tries including a Round Six double against the Western Mustangs. Lofi Khan-Periera also scored tries in Rounds One, Three and Four against the Sunshine Coast, Tweed Heads and South’s Logan respectively.
Post the MM Cup, Lofi Khan-Periera played in one match for the Burleigh U17 Division One side this season and made the most of it by scoring a hat trick against Helensvale.
Lofi Khan-Periera had a great 2017 season culminating in starting on the wing for Keebra Park in their National GIO Cup Finals success and representing Queensland Murri U16’s in their annual clash against New South Wales Kurri with fellow Titans linked hooker Jesse Brasslin being a team mate in the match.
In the interstate clash held in Newcastle Lofi Khan-Periera scored a double as Queensland Murri went down 16 – 14 in a tight clash. 2017 also saw Lofi Khan-Periera as part of the 2017 U16 Queensland Academy of Sport squad and he also won the Keebra Park 2017 Year 11 Sport Specialisation student of the year award.
In 2017 Lofi Khan-Periera finished on top of the try scoring list in the U16 Division One competition in 2017, finishing with eight tries from twelve matches. Unfortunately for Lofi Khan-Periera he missed the U16 Division One Grand Final with injury as Burleigh were defeated 34 – 4.
Lofi Khan-Periera had a great start to the U16 Division One season scoring all eight of his tries through the first five rounds including four tries in a match against Ormeau and a Round One double against Helensvale.
A the commencement of the 2017 season Lofi Khan-Periera represented the Gold Coast Vikings in the U16 South East Queensland pre-season competition and from there made the South East Queensland White U16 side for the Queensland Age Championships.
In those Championships, Lofi Khan-Periera had an outstanding campaign, scoring a double on Day Two against Centre and a try on Day Three against South East Queensland Green. Lofi Khan-Periera also scored in each of SEQ Whites finals, including against Northern in a semi-final and against SEQ Green in the final which White won 42 – 30.
As a result of his play over the last couple of season Lofi Khan-Periera was identified by both the Titans and the Broncos but has signed a deal with the Titans after being in both NRL team’s development squads.
Lofi Khan-Pereira has also represented Samoa on multiple occasions including being named Samoan U14 player of the tournament in 2015 at the QPICC championships.
Lofi Khan-Periera was also named in the Queensland Murri Probables side after the 2016 Queensland Murri championships. Fellow Titans contracted player Jesse Braslin has made the Queensland Murri U15/16 side.
Titans contracted Will Evans made his first start in the GCRL U20 competition in Round Seven on the weekend at right centre and scored as his Burleigh side went down 52-28 to Currumbin. Will Evans try came in the second half, he received the ball in space outside the Currumbin left winger around twenty metres out from the Burleigh line. Will Evans used a left arm fend to get rid of the Currumbin left winger before holding off the Currumbin left centre, once again with a left arm fend to score right in the right corner.
After the MM Cup competition with Burleigh, Will Evans started Round One of the U18 Division One competition at fullback before moving to the centres in Round Two prior to his subsequent promotion to the U20’s.
Will Evans has been named on an extended bench for the Burleigh Hastings Deering’s Colts side for this weekend’s Round Ten match against the Northern Pride.
The Gold Coast youngster and former Queensland U16 representative signed with the Titans after the expiration of his deal with the Brisbane Broncos in a coup for the Titans in terms of “bringing back the farm”.
In early 2019 Will Evans started at right centre for the Titans U18 side against the Newcastle Knights SG Ball squad in Coffs Harbour which ended in a draw, however from my perspective (and yes I am biased) the Titans were clearly the better side for the entire match.
Will Evans moved to fullback mid-way through the first half, with Noah Gafa taking his place at right centre and stayed there for the remainder of the match.
Will Evans first touch of the ball against the Knights was an impressive run in the first set of six for the Titans when he made twenty odd metres from a short right side play dragging a couple of Newcastle Knights defenders with him.
Will Evans started the 2019 season off starting in the centres for the Burleigh MM Cup sides Round One match against the Western Mustangs with the Bears prevailing 58 - 18. Will Evans continued to play at right centre but moved to fullback for Burleigh’s Round Five match against the Souths Logan Magpies. That match was the last that Will Evans played at fullback as he moved back to the centres for Round Six.
Will Evans sole try in the 2019 MM Cup competition came in Round Two as Burleigh defeated the Ipswich Jets.
Will Evans is part of the 2019 U18 Queensland Emerging Origin squad as well highlighting the high regard that Will Evans is held in in the Queensland Rugby League community.
The former PBC student actually played for the Titans Junior Development Squads for a number of years including at the U13 level in 2014 when the Titans played Marsden State High School in October of that year at Pizzey Park. That afternoon Will Evans starred in the fullback position and ripped the Marsden defence apart on multiple occasions and also covered very well defensively when necessary.
In 2018 Will Evans played for Burleigh in the GCRL U17 Division One competition and in his seven matches in the regular season scored eight tries primarily from the fullback position. Will Evans scored doubles against Ormeau and Tweed Heads and has also scored against Runaway Bay, Bilambil, Helensvale and Currumbin.
Will Evans started at fullback in both of Burleigh’s U17 Division One Finals matches against Currumbin and Runaway Bay.
In addition Will Evans was a key member of the 2018 PBC Opens Rugby League side playing right centre in most of their matches this season and was particularity impressive in wins against fierce rivals Keebra Park and also in a big PBC win against Marsden State High School at Waterford in the depths of winter. Against Marsden he was exceptional especially out of dummy half.
Will Evans also started at right centre for PBC against Ipswich State High School in the GIO Cup Queensland Quarter Finals held at Wynnum Manly earlier this week, a match that PBC were victorious in to progress to the Queensland semi-finals. In the match Will Evans did not get many opportunities with the ball but was very solid defensively as PBC scored literally in the last minute of a close contest to progress to the next round.
Will Evans was outstanding in both the Queensland GIO Cup final and also in the National GIO Cup final against Patrician Brothers Fairfield including being names Player of the National Final.
In 2017 Will Evans started at right centre for the Queensland U16 team as well as receiving a PBC on field Rugby League Achievement Award. Will Evans also represented Queensland in 2015 when he was part of the Queensland Maroon side for the ASSRRL U15 National Championships and in those Championships was the Queensland Maroons Player of the Match on Day Three in a big win against New South Wales Combined Catholic Colleges. Will Evans contributed a try to that victory for Queensland Maroon.
PBC won both the Langer First and Reserve Grade matches against St Mary's in Toowoomba this afternoon.
Titans contracted Kaleb Ngamanu started on the right wing for the TSS First XV in their 57-12 win over Brisbane State High School last weekend.
Video on the Titans Official Site about this match, well worth a look, great to see the Titans really getting behind the Titans of the future.
https://www.titans.com.au/news/2019/05/16/nsw-country-under-16s-to-play-harold-matthews-representative-team/
The NSW Country U16 side will play the NSW Harold Matthews U16 representative side at Penrith this Friday night in an NRL curtain raiser.
The NSW Country U16 side contains multiple Titans players including Rowan Mansfield *wing, Reef Sommerville (centre), Riley Lack (five eight), Tom Weaver (half) Jack Cullen (front row), Ryan Foran (second row), Noah Johannssen (front row interchange)and Keegan Pace (centre/wing interchange).
What a great experience for the boys.
Standout Casino RSM U18 player Lachlan West’s impressive 2019 NRRRL U18 season continued unabated last weekend in Round Six when he scored a try and kicked two goals as Casino RSM went down 22-16 to Murwillumbah.
Through the opening rounds he has now scored three tries and kicked 14 goals.
2019 Northern Rivers Titans U18 Laurie Daley Cup hooker Jonah Whitlam-Rose scored his first U18 NRRRL try on the weekend for Murwillumbah in their Round Six win 22-16 over Casino RSM.
Former Titans Junior Development Squad member Ethan Kane scored his first NRRRL First Grade try last weekend in Round Six for Murwillumbah as they went down 24-22 to Casino RSM.
It was Ethan Kane’s fifth match in the top grade.
Talented young centre Liam Cusack maintained his 100% strike rate for Murwillumbah in the NRRRL First Grade competition when he scored in Round Six in a two point loss to Casino RSM.
Some results for Round Four of the Titans School boy Rugby League competitions played last night. Apologies I do not have all of the scores, sorry.
Titans Challenge –
Marymount College 26 Robina SHS 6
Coombabah SHS (2) 36 Varsity College 12
Titans Cup –
Marymount College 22 Keebra Park SHS 4
Titans Shield -
Marymount College 14 Robina SHS 6
St Michael’s College 52 Nerang SHS 0
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