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    Quote Originally Posted by TITAN PETE View Post
    Outstanding work as usual mdrew thanks for keeping the game alive in the off season
    Totally agree Pete, Mdrew keep it coming

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    New NYC recruit Josh Rogers has had an interesting rugby league career to date. He started playing rugby league in Western Australia, and actually started playing 1st grade at 17, In 2014 he also played for Western Australia in the SG Ball competition, before moving to Burleigh in 2015 where he was part of the Burleigh premiership winning U19 side as well as making his QCup Colts debut.
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    Excellent NYC article from the official site.

    http://www.titans.com.au/news/2015/1...ive_about.html

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    Caught up with a friend over the New Year from NSW central coast, said that we have a real good one in NYC signee Shaun Hinton. He is another to be successful from NYC trial. My mate knows rugby league better than me and said Hinton is a tough solid young second rower who has been playing 1st grade in the Group 3 competition since 2014 and is someone who will become a bit of a fan favourite because of the amount of work on the field that he does. Looking forward to seeing him and the other new players against Melbourne at Langlands Park on 6 February.

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    Interesting to see if former NZ centre Richard Holani previously from Wesley College can break into the NYC thought process for 2016, he was solid in U19 football this year and played well for us against Samoa recently in an U18 Invitational side.

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    Successful trialist Ngangarra Barker shapes as an interesting player in NYC in 2016. He has played the last three seasons with the Newcastle Knights, the last two in SG Ball where he played mainly at fullback, scoring nine tries across his two SG Ball seasons and also scored six tries in Harold Matthews in 2013. At the conclusion of the U18 competition, he played for Maitland in the local Newcastle competition, scoring five tries in the U19 competition before graduating to their 1st grade side where he played four games and scored two tries. Interestingly he played mainly at half in first grade. In previous seasons for the Maitland Pickers he also played five eight for the U18 side. In 2014 he was also part of the NSW emerging origin squad. He is certainly a utility player with the ability to play fullback, wing, centre, five eight and now adding halfback to his resume.
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    Another Newcastle junior player will also be part of the 2016 NYC squad, being front rower Max King from the Maitland Pickers club, which was also the club of Ngangarra Barker. King played the 2015 season with the Knights SG Ball squad, playing every game off the bench and scored one try in their match against the Illawarra Steelers before starting in the front row for Maitland the remained of the season. We are starting to get some real size in the NYC squad, combined with some solid football skills. I believe that he is the son of former Gold Coast Seagulls front rower David King, who played eight first grade games across the 1991 and 1992 seasons.

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    Another interesting addition to the NYC squad is Wellington NZ local Friedrich Keil who comes from a rugby background and played his schoolboy rugby for St Bernards College in Wellington. This season he played his rugby league for the Wainuiomata Lions in the Wellington rugby league competition, scoring four tries including a try in their grand final loss to the Te Aroha Eels. He also was part of the Wellington Orca's National Premiership side and scored one in his two games. From what I understand he played the majority of this season on the wing but as noted by RenegadeGC he played in the centres in the MM/NYC trial a few weeks ago. He adds some size in the outside backs.

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    Inverell Hawks Bradon Sunderland is yet another player who was successful in obtaining an NYC contract after the recent trial. He played this year in the Group 3 first grade competition and a successful junior representative career for the Greater Northern Tigers, including being a key member of the 2014 U18 winning Greater Northern side when they defeated Central Coast in the Country championship final. A team mate in that side was another new NYC 2016 recruit in Cory Manicharos. He played the majority of his junior rugby league in the back row for Tingha but moved to the centres in Senior football and scored 11 tries across 16 matches and started in the centres in Inverell's Grand Final victory against Moree 26-24.

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    Could Ngangarra barker be an option of the bench as a utility?

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    Certainly has the versatility to do so, the squad for the first trial against the Storm will be very interesting, looking forward to going and having a look

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    Could Ngangarra barker be an option of the bench as a utility?

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    Aiden Taua is another trialist who was successful at the open NYC trial. In 2015 he played two games off the bench for the Melbourne Storm NYC side, scoring a try against the St George Dragons in Round 20. In 2014 he played for Kelston Boys High in NZ and was predominantly a second rower. He transitioned to play mainly hooker in Australia, including playing nine games in the Victorian 1st grade competition for the Sunbury Tigers scoring seven tries in the process. He has a bit of size to go with decent speed out of dummy half and may shape as a decent utility option off the bench. I believe that prior to 2014 he also played some centre.

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    Kurt Bernard is a giant young front rower originally from Auckland NZ who moves across to Australia in 2014 to play for the Melbourne Storm, In 2015 he played mainly SG Ball for the Storm alternating between front row and second row. In 2015 he played eight games for the Storm in the NYC competition scoring two tries against the Roosters and the Wests Tigers. Across those eight games he averaged only eight hit ups per game but averaged around 13 metres per hit up. He also played one 1st grade trial match for the Storm in the 2015 pre season.

    The 195cm, 115 kg front rower is currently training with our first grade squad and should form a formidable NYC front row with another new recruit being Morgan Boyle. The training with the 1st grade squad and increased emphasis on endurance will help him maintain his powerful running throughout a game.

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    Canberra NYC recruit Morgan Boyle had quite an impressive 2015 NYC season. He averaged around 75m per game on an average of 6.1 hit ups, thus averaging 12.2m per hit up. He also averaged 17.7 tackles per game. The 193cm, 110kg front rower is another NYC eligible played training with the first grade squad. He started his junior representative football as a centre before moving to the forwards in the SG Ball competition.

    He is the son of David Boyle, who played 117 games for the raiders.

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    I will be interested to see where Ben Woolf plays new recruit Junior Taefu in the coming season. Taefu has spend the majority of the last couple of seasons in the centres, including playing there for Qld U18's in 2014 and Souths Logan last year. He also played eight games for the Broncos NYC side in 2014 at centre. He is around 100kg and 185cm or so and has good footwork so it is not unthinkable to think that he may have a future in the backrow


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