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    After an injury interrupted year or two, Grafton Ghost Caleb Barker was back on the field in 2018 with a team mate last season being Titan Ben Liyou. In fact Caleb Barker has also pulled on a Titans jersey when he lined up for the Titans alongside Ben Liyou for a Titans U14 side in 2015 against Samoa.

    In 2018 for the Ghosts, Caleb Barker played in nine Toohey’s Group Two U18 matches scoring tries against Coffs Harbour and Belligen.

    Caleb Barker also made his Group Two First Grade debut in 2018 when he played against Sawtell in June and played his second First Grade match in early July against Macksville.

    Caleb Barker also has a junior rugby background representing New South Wales Country U16’s in 2017 and touring New Zealand with that side.

    Caleb Barker is still U18 eligible in 2019 but I am sure that he will add to his two Group Two First Grade matches in the blue and white of the Grafton Ghosts this coming season.

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    The Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts side this season looks impressive and one player looking to break into the side is Ji Van Heerwaarden who moved up from the Glenn Innes Magpies to link with the Tweed Heads Seagulls MM Cup side in 2018. He is Colts eligible once again in 2020.

    Unfortunately Ji Van Heerwaarden only played in one MM Cup match last season being in Round One against Norths when he started in the front row.

    In the Gold Coast Rugby League competition he played for the Currumbin Eagles and went his first thirteen U19 matches without scoring but chose the perfect time to score when he scored a double in Currumbin’s 34 – 20 Grand Final victory over Southport after starting the match in the front row.

    In 2018 Ji Van Heerwaarden also made his Gold Coast Rugby League First Grade debut coming off the interchange bench for Currumbin and Round Fifteen against Ormeau. He also came off the bench in Round Sixteen against Tugun.

    Ji Van Heerwaarden played the 2017 season in the Group 19 U18 competition where he was one of the standout players. Across the ten matches that he played for Glenn Innes in the U18 competition, Ji Van Heerwaarden scored nine tries including a great end to the season when he scored four tries in his final three matches including a double in Glenn Innes’s final loss.

    In the final two rounds of the regular season U18 competition, Ji Van Heerwaarden also scored against the Moree Boomerangs and the Inverell Hawks. Earlier in the season, Ji Van Heerwaarden scored a double against the Moree Boars and also scored in the first two rounds against the Tingha Tigers and Armidale Rans respectively. In June of 2017 Ji Van Heerwaarden made his Group 19 First Grade debut when he started against the Moree Boars after playing in the U18 clash earlier in the day.

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    One of the biggest transitions for a player is the move to the senior ranks and that is the move that talented Titans linked hooker Jonah Whitlam-Rose will make in 2019 when he suites up for Murwillumbah in the NRRRL U18 competition after playing the 2018 season with South Tweed in the Group 18 U16 competition.

    Jonah Whitlam-Rose will also be part of the Northern Rivers Titans U18 Laurie Daley Cup season this season.


    In 2018 Jonah Whitlam-Rose captained the Northern Rivers U16 Andrew Johns Cup side taking them to the finals in the first year of the competition. In the competition he started at hooker and captained the side in each of their five matches and scored a double in Round One against the Newcastle Knights U16 Development Squad in an outstanding display of dummy half running in wet conditions.

    Representative honours are nothing new for the St Joseph’s College Banora Point student, he represented Group 18 at the NSW Country U15 Championships in 2017 in three matches scoring a hat trick against Group 19 and in 2016 represented Group 18 at the U14 level in two matches.

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    It is always interesting to see where players chose to progress their careers and that was the case in 2018 for Vinncent Takataka.

    Vinncent Takataka represented South’s Logan in the 2018 MM Cup competition starting a number of the Magpies matches including their MM Cup Grand Final against North’s and their National Final against Penrith. Earlier this season the former Canterbury Bankstown junior represented South Coast at the U18 QSSRL Championships in Toowoomba where South Coast was defeated by Met East in the Championship final.

    In the MM Cup competition for South’s Logan as noted Vinncent Takataka played in four South’s Logan’s matches. Vinncent Takataka broke into the South’s Logan MM side in Round Three against North’s from the inter change bench and also played off the bench in Round Four against Burleigh. Vinncent Takataka started Round Five against Wynnum Manly in the front row and started the MM Cup Grand Final and U18 National Final in the second row, scoring in the National Final against the Penrith Panthers.

    Post those feats, Vinncent Takataka made his debut in the Gold Coast Rugby League U19 competition when he started in the second row for Runaway Bay in Round Eight in their 32-24 win over the Ormeau Shearers. In Round Nine Vinncent Takataka started in the second row once against and scored a double as his Runaway Bay side defeated Beaudesert 32 – 20.

    In total in the Gold Coast Rugby League U19 competition in 2018, Vinncent Takataka played in six matches and in addition to the previously mentioned double against Beaudesert also scored against Burleigh and Helensvale in consecutive matches in August.

    Vinncent Takataka, prior to his move to Queensland was part of the Canterbury Bulldogs Junior Development set-up for a numbers of years, joining the Bulldogs in their U15 Development Squad in 2015 and progressing to playing for the Bulldogs U16 Harrold Matthews Cup side in 2016. Vinncent’s Takataka’s junior rugby league club in Sydney was the Bankstown Sports Club where he started his rugby league journey in the U12’s.

    I am looking forward to seeing how he handles the step up to the Hastings Deering’s Colts competition this season and Vinncent Takataka is also Colts eligible in 2020.

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    After a number of seasons being a stand out in the NRRRL competition it is great to see half Tahne Robinson in the Tweed Heads Seagulls Colts side this season. Tahne Robinson is also Colts eligible in 2020.

    The young Tweed Coast Raiders half has already donned a Titans jersey in a number of Titans junior development matches a couple of years ago and since moving to the Tweed Coast Raiders NRRRL side at the start of the 2018 season has made every post a winner.

    For the Raiders in the NRRRL First grade competition in 2018 Tahne Robinson was been involved in fifteen matches including the final’s series.

    In the regular season of the NRRRL First Grade competition, Tahne Robinson scored fourteen tries and kicked forty eight goals to finish with 152 points.

    Tahne Robinson had big matches in Round Four against Lismore Marist Brothers when he scored a double and kicked four goals and in Round Five against Mullumbimby when he also scored a double but in that match kicked five goals. Round Nine in a Raiders 60 – 0 win over Evans Head also saw Tahne Robinson score a double and kick two goals in the big win.

    Round Ten saw Tahne Robinson play in the U18 fixture against Lower Clarence and then back up in the NRRRL First Grade match kicking eight goals from ten attempts in a Tweed Coast Raiders 56 – 28 victory over Lower Clarence.

    In Round Twelve against Northern united, Tahne Robinson scored a try and kicked seven goals and Round Fourteen saw Tahne Robinson score a double and kick six goals against Byron Bay.

    Tahne Robinson’s other tries in 2018 have come against Northern United on two occasions, Murwillumbah(on two occasions), Cudgen and his 2017 club Casino RSM.

    In the Round Eight top of the table clash against Cudgen, Thane Robinson kicked three goals from three attempts to lead the raiders to a two point win. In relation to the particular match against Cudgen Tahne Robinson was backing up the day after playing in the New South Wales Country U23 Championship Final.

    In the Preliminary Final Tahne Robinson kicked two first half goals as Tweed Coast held on to defeat Murwillumbah to progress to the NRRRL First Grade Grand Final against Ballina.

    In the NRRRL First Grade Grand Final Tahne Robinson started at half back against Ballina with Tweed Coast winning in convincing style 24 – 4 against Ballina with Tahne Robinson kicking four goals, including three conversions and a second half penalty goal.

    The local paper the Northern Star, in their NRRRL Grand Final write-up gave Tahne Robinson’s performance an 8.5/10 and noted that he kept Ballina off balance the entire game.

    Tahne Robinson set up Tweed Coast first try of the Grand Final in just the second minute when he put in a deft left foot chip which Ballina scored from. In the Grand Final Tahne Robinson regularly took the ball to the field and was also very good defensively.

    In 2018 Tahne Robinson also played in six NRRRL U18 matches for the Tweed Coast Raiders.

    Over the course of 2018 season Tahne Robinson played for the Norther Rivers U23 representative side in the New South Wales Country U23 Championships starting at half back in all three of their matches, including the Championship Final recently in a 26 – 22 wing over Monaro, a match that saw Tahne Robinson kick three goals. What an impressive feat for an 18 year old to be playing in that competition and not just playing, performing at a high level.

    Thane Robinson’s other two matches for Northern Rivers in the New South Wales Country U23 Championships were against North Coast and the Greater Northern Tigers starting both at half back.

    In 2017 Tahne Robinson was a standout for Casino RSM in the NRRRL First Grade competition even though he was still eligible for U18’s. Unfortunately for Tahne Robinson and his Casino RSM team mates they were defeated 32-20 in their NRRRL semi-final by his new team the Tweed Coast Raiders. Tahne Robinson towards the end of last year was named the NRRRL Rookie of the season.

    The former St Mary’s College Casino student was also selected in the MCC 18 years Presidents Rugby League team in 2017. Tahne Robinson over his junior career has made numerous Group One Junior Representative sides as well.

    Tahne Robinson only played in one U18 NRRRL match in 2017 season but he made the most of it, scoring 18 points from a try and seven goals against Mullumbimby in April of that year. Tahne Robinson played thirteen 2017 Novaskills NRRRL First Grade matches scoring nine tries and a conversion over those matches. In addition to the double in the final regular season round against his new team being the Tweed Coast Raiders, Tahne Robinson scored a double in mid-July against Mullumbimby.

    Earlier in 2017 season Tahne Robinson was named at half back for the East Coast Dolphins U18 side in the New South Wales Country Championships. Tahne Robinson played the 2016 season in the U18 NRRRL Competition with Casino RSM and finished as the leading points scorer in the competition with 106 points which came from four tries and 45 goals.

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    I'd love to get to some of these junior games with some of you. Perhaps in July/August when I'm back in Oz.
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    Also the Burleigh HDC u20’s are playing after the MM team, not 100% on who they are playing though.

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    They are playing the Mudgeeraba U20’s mate

    Quote Originally Posted by ja4220 View Post
    Also the Burleigh HDC u20’s are playing after the MM team, not 100% on who they are playing though.

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    Titans 13’s won 40-12

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    Quote Originally Posted by mdrew View Post
    Titans 13’s won 40-12
    Not suprised mate fairly weak age group , the 14s should be closer

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    Titans up 4 tries to nil at half time and should have scored 3 more

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    Not suprised mate fairly weak age group , the 14s should be closer
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    GOLDCOASTBULLETIN.COM.AU › Annotations
    Titans Elite Development Squad players to feature in junior trials at Mudgeeraba’s Firth Park
    FEBRUARY 08, 2019
    Mudgeeraba’s Firth Park will play host to six games between 10am and 6.15pm in a series of junior trials being branded as ‘Super Saturday’.

    The Titans Elite Development Squad (TEDS) will play across age divisions from under-13 to under-18,

    The younger half of the group, known as Titans Academy players, will square off with the Western Mustangs in under-13, under-14 and under-15.


    Development squad players on the training paddock during the week. Picture: Gold Coast Titans
    At under-16 level, the Gold Coast Vikings will play both the Northern Rivers Titans and the Western Mustangs.

    The other key match will pit the Northern Rivers Titans up against Burleigh’s Mal Meninga squad in an under-18 showdown.

    “It will be a great day of rugby league, a lot of future NRL players hopefully on display and we’re looking forward to it,” said Titans elite player development unit manager Jamie McCormack, who hopes to see raw talent blossom into NRL quality.

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    Titans win 14’s 32-8

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    Very impressive Titans U15 sides as well. Congratulations to all. Plus great to see Mal Meninga there as well


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