Junior Development

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18 year old front row/second row Jovahn Te Aroiti had a great 2019 season and in the final regular season round of the GCRL First Grade competition played his 4th First Grade game of the season when he came off the bench for Runaway Bay as they defeated Southport 28-24.

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Ioane Seuili started his third match in the second row in Round Twenty Two against Souths Logan scoring his 7th try of the season in a great display spanning the entire 80 minutes. Ioane Seuili ran for 110 metres (33 post contact), had a line break, broke three tackles, played the ball at an average speed of 3.3 seconds, pulled off a one on one steal and made twenty three tackles at a tackling efficiency of 92% as he continued his impressive transition to the second row.

Ioane Seuili’s try came in the second half of the match, he received the ball on the right of the play the ball from the dummy half and was immediately confronted with a defender rushing up, Ioane Seuili stepped off his left foot and then stepped off his left foot again back behind the play the ball before charging over after the defence moved across the field.

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Keebra Park and Southport’s 2019 New Zealand recruit Terry-Jack Smart will start this weekend’s U18 Division One Preliminary Final on the bench against Ormeau.

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Results from Week Two of the Group 18 Junior Rugby League Finals:

U13:

Seagulls White 24 defeated Seagulls Black 12

Bilambil 40 defeated Murwillumbah 0

U14:

Seagulls 22 defeated Bilambil 16

Byron Bay Lennox Head 32 defeated Tweed Coast 6

U15:

Bilambil 46 defeated Byron Bay Lennox Head 22

Cudgen 28 defeated Murwillumbah 26

U16:

Byron Bay Lennox Head 28 defeated South Tweed 0

Cudgen 34 defeated Murwillumbah 14


The Preliminary Finals will be held this weekend.

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This weekend’s Runaway Bay GCRL First Grade Week One Finals side has a youthful look to it with Matt Canning starting at half and Jovahn Te Aroiti and Adyn Anguna set to come off the bench against Tugun.

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Burleigh U18 Division One players Tyler Kent and Tyrese Walker will both start from the bench for Burleigh in their Week One GCRL U20 final against Mudgeeraba.

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The Nerang Roosters U15 Division One forward pack for this weekend’s U15 Division One Preliminary Final against Helensvale has two Titans contracted players in the starting side being Nicholas Hilton (lock) and Arama Hau (second row)

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The Helensvale U15 Division One centre pairing for this weekend’s Preliminary Final against Nerang is an all Titans pairing with Te Heaeta Takamore and Kobie Mackay-Taylor looking to propel the Hornets to the Grand Final.

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The Balmain Tigers U15 Development Squad for their annual North Coast tour has been named with the side noted below:

Max Jorgenson
Ben Cudmore
Wade Zreika
Oscar Jorgenson
Ashtyn Bell
John Ibrahim
Levi Conti
John Melia
Jacob Matta
Dimitri Tselis
Keenan Lawandos
Tony Sukkar
Joe Schmitzer
Manus Bailey
Andrew Musillo
Cooper Weelhouse
Savinata Moalia
Keanu Senico


They will play a Ballina combined U15/16 Ballina Seagulls side on One October in Ballina before playing our very own U15 Development Squad on 3 October a Piggabeen at 5.30pm.

If you are nearby it would be great for you to head to the ground to watch the next generation of Titans play and I can assure you there is some unbelievable talent in the Titans side.

I personally cannot wait.

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Exciting Casino RSM fullback Lachlan West was the stand out player in the NRRRL U18 competition this season, finishing as the competitions leading points scorer and last weekend in Week Two of the NRRRL First Grade Finals made his First Grade Finals debut when he was part of the Casino RSM side that progressed to the Preliminary Final with an 18 -14 win over 2018 Premiers the Tweed Coast Raiders with the talented youngster scoring a double.

In the 2019 NRRRL U18 competition, Lachlan West finished as the regular season’s leading point’s scorer with 138, the equal leading try scorer with sixteen and the fourth leading goal kicker with thirty seven goals. In fact Lachlan West scored in each of his fifteen 2019 NRRRL U18 matches.

Lachlan West scored a hat trick against Evans Head and doubles against Evans Head, Tweed Coast, Cudgen and Lower Clarence and also scored in matches against Tweed heads Seagulls, Lower Clarence, Murwillumbah and Kyogle twice.

With the boot Lachlan West kicked six in a mid-May match against Evans Head and kicked four goals on three other occasions being against Tweed Heads, Lismore Marist Brothers and Tweed Coast.

As you would anticipate Lachlan West had some big matches from an individual point’s scoring perspective including 20 points against Evans Head (two tries and four goals), eighteen against Evans Head (three tries and three goals) and sixteen against Tweed Coast (two tries and four goals).

In early 2019 Lachlan West played the opening three rounds of the U18 Laurie Daley Cup for the Northern Rivers Titans starting Rounds One and Two against the Newcastle Knights Development Squad and Parramatta Eels at fullback and Round Three against the North Coast Bulldogs on the wing.

In 2018 Lachlan West started the season playing for Casino RSM in the Group One U16.5 competition playing in eleven matches and scoring ten tries including consecutive hat tricks in early season rounds against Clarence Coast and Ballina.

Lachlan West then as a 16 year old moved up to play in three NRRRL U18 matches for Casino RSM making his debut in July 2018 against Lismore Marist Brothers and scoring his first try in the NRRRL U18 competition in just his second match which was against Tweed Coast.

Lachlan West started at Keebra Park this season and in addition to rugby league performed well in the triple jump and javelin athletic disciplines.

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The Ipswich Rugby League Finals start this weekend with a number of Titans linked/contracted boys playing.

In the U14 competition David Neller and Larry Siala will line up for Norths against Goodna and in the U16 competition Orlando Swain will play for Norths against Redbank Plains.

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Outstanding 17 year old second row prospect Simon Pratt made his first NRRRL First Grade Finals appearance when came off the bench in Week One of the Finals in a 40 – 6 loss to Murwillumbah last weekend.

Simon Pratt also came off the bench in Week two of the Finals on Sunday as Casino RSM progressed to the Preliminary Final on the back of an 18 – 14 win over the Tweed Coast Raiders.

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Outstanding Byron Bay U18 NRRRL prospect Malik Kelly-Torrens had a big match with the boot kicking five goals as Byron Bay progressed to the U18 NRRRL Preliminary Final with a 36 – 28 win over Lismore Marist Brothers last weekend.

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Kel Sheather added a further try to his 2019 tally when he scored in Week Two of the NRRRL First Grade Finals last weekend for Ballina as they defeated Murwillumbah 30 – 20.

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Will of the wisp half Tyrelle Roberts U18 NRRRL season may have come to an end last weekend as Lismore Marist Brothers lost 36 – 28 to Byron Bay in Week Two of the finals but he went out with a bang scoring a double and kicking four from five conversions.

Formerly of Casino RSM half Tyrelle Roberts moved in the off-season to Lismore Marist Brothers starting the season in the Rams U18 NRRRL side, having 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 total for Lismore Marist Brothers in the NRRRL U18 competition this season Tyrelle Roberts played in seventeen regular season matches, scoring 132 points from eight tries and fifty goals including an outstanding Round Seventeen match when he scored twenty eight points from a try and twelve goals against Kyogle.

Tyrelle Roberts also had a big game in Round Eighteen against Evans Head scoring eighteen points from a double and five goals in a big 50 – 4 win.

Tyrelle Roberts 132 points and fifty goals was enough for him to finish second in each tally for the 2019 NRRRL U18 season.

The young former Casino RSM half had an outstanding year in 2017 in the Group One U15 competition and as a consequence was selected in the Northern Rivers U16 side for the 2018 Andrew Johns Cup competition.

Tyrelle Roberts in fact started at half back in their Round One clash against the U16 Newcastle Knights Development squad with Northern Rivers defeating Newcastle 22 – 12 in difficult slippery conditions.

In the Round One match Tyrelle Roberts kicked three goals from four attempts and also set up a try for exciting young fullback Layne Hardy with a deft chip in the second half. The only goal attempt that Tyrelle Roberts missed was after the fulltime siren from right on the right hand touch line.

In total for Northern Rivers in the Andrew Johns Cup Tyrelle Roberts started 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 points 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.

In 2017 Tyrelle Roberts finished the season as the Group One U15 competition’ leading points scorer and fourth leading try scorer. In total in 2017 Tyrelle Roberts scored 84 points from ten tries and twenty two goals. Tyrelle Roberts’s ten tries came from just eleven matches and included doubles against Clarence Coast early in the season and against Clarence Coast later in the season.

From a goal kicking perspective, Tyrelle Roberts kicked six from seven in a July match against Kyogle and five in a match against Clarence Coast when he also scored a double to finish the match with eighteen points.

Tyrelle Roberts also played one U16.5 competition match in 2017 which came against Lismore Marist Brothers in early June where he backed up after playing in the U15 match earlier on the Saturday afternoon.