QRU chair Peter Lewis details blockage on Super 15 road to Gold Coast
By Jim Tucker
July 15, 2009 There is no room for the Gold Coast on the Super 15 map, Queensland Rugby Union chairman Peter Lewis told a meeting of the code's powerbrokers on Tuesday.
But Lewis was reluctant to detail exactly what he told a Sydney gathering of the country's Super 14 rugby chairmen and chief executives in the company of Australian Rugby Union chief executive John O'Neill.
"Yes, I did raise all the concerns about the Gold Coast being so close to the Reds market up the highway," Lewis said.
"It was a full and frank meeting across a vast number of issues that concern all the Super 14 sides."
The start-up player raids on Queensland by Western Force in 2005 contributed to an already-shaky Reds outfit plunging even further.
Possible player draft models were discussed at the meeting on Tuesday.
The Reds have been proactive in securing their future through another crop of successful Queensland Schoolboys after 12 won selection in the national schoolboys squad.
Wingers Chris Sautia and Kimamai Situata, the top tryscorer, with seven, at the recent national titles in Sydney, are already on Reds Academy scholarships. Top flanker Liam Gill and fullback Simon Morahan are also current Academy players.
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