Junior Development

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Outstanding Gold Coast hooker Cole Geyer won the Marymount College Spirit award for the 2018 Confraternity Carnival which finished on Friday.

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SEQ Green and SEQ White drew in the final of the Queensland U14 Championships 16-all today.

Jye Gray with a sniping run from a scrum to set up the final try for SEQ White with two minutes to go.

Multiple GC boys involved, including Blake Ruaporo, Blake Mozer, Josh Lynn, Nicholas Hilton, Kacey Kopua, Arama Heu, Xavier Collins and Timothy Sielaff-Burns for Green.

GC SEQ White players included Seth Nikotemo, Joseph Shannon, Jye Grey, Kobie Mackey-Taylor and Irvine Tiomai.

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SEQ Green U16's defeated SEQ White in the U16 Queensland Age Championship final 30-18.

Titan Ediq Ambrosyev was good out of dummy half for Green scoring a very good try in the first half.

Daniel Butterini spent some time in the second row in the second half for SEQ Green and William Parslow on the left wing.

Gold Coast junior Byron Parnell and Brodyn Gudgeon also amongst the Green try scorers.

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Horror afternoon for the Western Mustangs Colts side going down 62-10 to Redcliffe.

The Western Mustangs try scorer were winger and Titans linked Chris Chambers and Titans linked centre Lesley Hartvigsen..

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Burleigh MM player Ronan Kapi was a second half replacement for Queensland I in the Australian Schools Rugby Championships and made some powerful runs at outside centre including scoring the last try setting up a try to Glenn Viahu as Queensland I defeated Western Australia 65-12.

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AJ Brunson to start st 5/8 for the Queensland U20 side on Wednesday night.

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AJ Brunson to start st 5/8 for the Queensland U20 side on Wednesday night.

Do they televise/stream the U20's pre game anywhere? Anyone?

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Live stream on QRL website mate

Do they televise/stream the U20's pre game anywhere? Anyone?

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Live stream on QRL website mate

Thank you.

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Tate Roberts, Ediq Ambrosyev and Sam Shannon in Queensland U16 side

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8 from the GC in the QLD U16 side. Time to get the chequebook out Titans officials.

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Live stream on QRL website mate

Thanks mdrew!

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Brisbane Broncos coach praises role Gold Coast rugby league nurseries play in conjunction with NRL clubs
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BRONCOS coach Wayne Bennett has praised the role that Gold Coast nurseries are playing in helping develop the region’s best rugby league talent.

Bennett was full of praise for his forwards after Sunday’s 34-0 drubbing of the Titans at Cbus Super Stadium given his team was missing several players to Origin and injury.

Among them was 18-year-old David Fifita, who made 94m and 22 tackles in just his second NRL game.

Fifita is one of several former Keebra Park students who have linked with the Broncos ahead of their NRL debuts, including Payne Haas, who made his debut earlier this year, and Jai Arrow — who started his career with the Broncos before returning to the Titans this year.

“The high schools do a great job,” Bennett said, noting the work of another famed Gold Coast nursery in Palm Beach Currumbin as he sat next to former student Darius Boyd in the press conference.

“There’s a Palm Beach Currumbin player here (Boyd), so they do a great job.

“But we’ve been there with those guys from an early age as well. Between the club and the school it’s a credit to them.

“But more importantly, it’s a credit to the young men they are.

“They’re 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds but they’re very balanced and don’t get ahead of themselves.

“It’s just a pity Payne’s not playing for us as well because he’d be there.”

A former Peter Sterling medallist, Fifita has been rated the best schoolboy player in the past 20 years by commentator Andrew Voss.

But Bennett doesn’t want the teen to play a star role.

“I like what David brings because at the moment, he’s not trying to be the star of the show, he knows he’s got an important role to play and that’s making sure he’s making his tackles and getting his carries and he’s not trying to do any more than that,” Bennett said.

“I’m pleased with that because I don’t want him to get in front of himself.

“He’s got a lot more to show us yet but that’s going to be a year or two before that comes to the forefront.”

While the Broncos have benefited most from the Gold Coast nursery in recent years, the tide may be turning.

Among the Titans’ best on a generally dark day for the club on Sunday was 18-year-old front-rower Moeaki Fotuaika, another former Keebra player.

Unwanted by NRL clubs on graduation, Fotuaika turned up to an open trial for the Titans’ under-20 squad last year and has since made every post a winner.

With Arrow and Jarrod Wallace on Origin duty, Fotuaika stood up against the Broncos, making 105m and 37 tackles in an effort Gold Coast captain Ryan James rated as the only bright note of the day.

“I think young Moe really stepped up and if there’s a positive to come out of (that game), it’s to know that an 18-year-old can stand up and do that,” James said.

“He was phenomenal.

“He took his starting position with both hands, went forward, tackled hard and did everything asked.”

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Kalani Going was only on the field for 32 minutes in his Queensland Cup debut for Tweed Heads on the weekend but he certainly made the most of it running for 75.6 metres, 22 post contact, an offload and 20 tackles at a tackling efficiency of 90.9%.

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Burleigh MM Cup player Ronan Kapi and his Queensland I Schools team mates made it two wins from two matches at the Australian Schools Rugby Championships defeating Combined States this afternoon 29-0 in a polished performance.