Brock Lennox. The local young outside back from the Helensvale Hornets early in 2020 signed a contract with the Titans for the next couple of seasons at least after his series of outstanding 2019 season performances for the Hornets and in Gold Coast and South East Queensland junior age representative sides.
Brock Lennox was also involved in the Titans U15 Academy matches at Burleigh in early 2020 and post those round robin matches signed his contract with the Titans which will see the young centre part of the Titans JTS program for the next couple of seasons at the very least.
Brock Lennox moved to the Southport School (TSS) in 2020 and in late July started at inside centre (No. 12) in the TSS U15A side in their first school boy rugby trial against another GPS school, being Nudgee College, with the trial being held in Brisbane with Brock Lennox converting TSS’s sole try of the match.
Brock Lennox moved to outside centre (No. 13) for the TSS U15A’s final trial against Churchie and kicked a conversion in the dying minutes to seal a 12 – 5 TSS victory.
Round One of the GPS school boy rugby U15A competition proper saw Brock Lennox start at outside centre (No. 13) for TSS against Brisbane State High School.
In Round Two Brock Lennox started at fullback and kicked four conversions as TSS outlasted Toowoomba Grammar School in a high scoring affair. Brock Lennox also started at fullback in Round Two against Brisbane Grammar School and Round Three against Brisbane Boys College where he converted TSS’s only try of the match.
Brock Lennox maintained his run of starts at fullback in Round Four against Gregory Terrace converting TSS’s sole try of the match and also started at fullback in Round Five against Ipswich Grammar School.
Post the TSS GPS rugby season Brock Lennox was named as the TSS U15 goal kicking champion for his efforts in the TSS U15A side.
In late October 2020, Brock Lennox was named in the Gold Coast Rugby League U16 Cyril Connell Cup Academy Squad.
In 2019 Brock Lennox played for the Helensvale Hornets in the GCJRL U14 Division One competition finishing the season as one of the competitions leading goal kickers and points scorers overall as he has for a number of seasons in yellow and green. It was a similar situation in 2018 in the GCRL U13 Division One competition for Brock Lennox.
In 2019 Brock Lennox also represented the Gold Coast Vikings representative U14 side at the Hill Stumer Championships starting at left centre that were held at Ipswich and post those Championships was named in the South East Queensland White side for the 2019 Queensland U14 Age Championships. Brock Lennox was the Gold Coast Vikings leading point’s scorer at those Championships.
For Queensland White at the Queensland Championships, Brock Lennox played in all four of their matches primarily at left centre and kicked five goals including two in the Championships third v fourth 16 – 14 play-off win against Central to round out an impressive 2019 representative season for the Titans contracted centre.
Brock Lennox also kicked two goals in Game One against Northern and one in Game Three against South East Queensland Green when he converted the try of fellow Titans contracted player, second rower Philip Hakaraia-Ngamotu.
In 2018 Brock Lennox played for Merrimac High School in the NRL Gold Coast Titans Year 7/8 Challenge and was in fact named player of the competition after a number of outstanding displays for the Gold Coast based school.
Brock Lennox is a tallish, quick centre with a fluid running style with a classic centres build with the ability to stand up his direct opposite and then beat him with pace on the outside. In term of Brock Lennox’s play, the in and away is his bread and butter.
Brock Lennox has very good speed off the mark and can break to the outside quickly with no loss of momentum, couple that with long arms, which he uses to great effect with a powerful fend makes Brock Lennox a difficult proposition to tackle. Overall Brock Lennox’s speed for a centre is probably in the above average range, but he is quick off the mark and can utilise a step and a swerve with little to no loss of his speed or momentum.
Brock Lennox has more tools though than just an in and away, Brock Lennox will also use his size and strength to run straight over smaller opposing centres as well as also having the skill to step back inside of the defender if he is pushing to the outside too early.
Also when opposing centres are able to get hold of him, Brock Lennox usually is able to maintain his balance as well as maintaining his running line and keeps an arm free, looking to offload usually with his right arm.
What Brock Lennox is also quite adept at doing is timing his pass to his outside supports if the outside defender looks to come in and help defend him allowing an overlap to develop. If the defender cheats out however, Brock Leenox has the nouce to bring the ball back into his body and slide through the resultant gap.
An additional attacking feature that I like when I watch Brock Leenox play is the way that he straightens up the point of attack well when the ball is spun out to his left side of the field. Instead of continuing to head across field potentially compressing backline and forcing them to the touch line, Brock Lennox straightens up his running line immediately after receiving the ball thus giving his outside supports more room to move.
The outcome of that action is that the defence which is normally sliding from inside out is frozen in place as they are confronted with the change in the attacking vector which in term changes the advantage to Brock Lennox and his team mates.
In those instances, Brock Leenox immediately moves from running the ball against multiple defenders to taking on a stationary opponent one on one which opens up the ability of Brock Lennox to utilise a step or swerve whilst at the same time retaining the option of passing to the outsaide supports but also opening up the ability of his inside support runners to become involved when they otherwise would not have had the ability to.
Brock Lennox will not necessarily hit hard per say from a defensive perspective, but he is very good at mirroring the movement of the opposing centre and wrapping him up ball and all. Brock Lennox is also quick enough to recover and chase if the opposing centre gets on the outside and his long reach is also a positive attribute in those situations.
From a team defensive methodology stand point, Brock Lennox seems to be very comfortable in a sliding defensive scheme where he can use his speed and body control to their best advantage although Brock Lennox has also shown the ability to come out of the line to halt a play before it completely develops if the opportunity presents itself over the course of a match.
Brock Lennox is also a very good goal kicker with both good range and accuracy including from out to the side line where he does not look to try to kick the ball too work but relies on his routine and process to get the appropriate result.
I would suggest that Brock Lennox is likely to be his side’s primary goal kicker regardless of the level he progresses to into the future after kicking a high percentage across all levels of rugby league in 2020 and earlier.
Brock Lennox is set to play for the Helensvale Hornets in the GCJRL U16 Division One competition in 2021 when the Gold Coast Rugby League competition resumes and Brock Lennox will also line up for TSS once again, in 2021 in the GPS U16A competition and may also get an opportunity with the First XV squad.
Brock Lennox is a tall quick young man with speed, balance and body control and with those attributes, Brock Lennox has a real opportunity to develop into a very impressive long term centre prospect. I note however that Brock Lennox was also very very good at fullback for TSS GPS U15A school boy rugby competition in 2021 and playing fullback in rugby can only enhance his rugby league skill set.
With his size, speed, balance and body control attributes Brock Lennox has a playing style comparable to that of St George Dragons centre, wing or fullback Zac Lomax. Both have a tallish wiry frame and move very well both forward and laterally. Similiarly both Lomax and Brock Lennox whilst wiry and strong young men and seem to be on occasion very underrated in this critical aspect of rugby league.