Junior Wallabies' 2019 prep starts with state training squads

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by Staff Writer


The Junior Wallabies have named an 87-man extended training squad for 2019 after the recent U19 Rugby Championship.

This is the first squad named in the new U20s structure, with October's URC replacing the Super 20s competition that was run at the start of the Super Rugby season.

A host of players have also been included in the squad from July's Australian Schools competition, giving some 18-year-olds their first taste of U20s expectations.

The group will go into state-based camps before a condensed group comes together in Canberra to kick off the 2019 campaign proper.

Junior Wallabies coach Jason Gilmore said January would be when the side's focus really sharpens.

"This wider training squad that we have selected comes off the back of several weeks of national competition, both at the U19 Rugby Championship as well as the Australian Schoolboys," he said.

“From here the boys will be linking up with their state-based academies where they will continue to train until we assemble in January at the Australian Institute of Sport where our preparations will really ramp up.”

The Junior Wallabies will play in next year's Oceania U20s and the World Rugby U20s Champs in Argentina.

SQUAD
Junior Wallabies extended training squad

ACT
Billy Carberry
Tauati Chan-Tung
Will Goddard
Wyll Holland
Kristian Jensen
Fred Kaihea
Noah Lolesio
Lachlan Lonergan
Ben Love
Zane Marolt
Lachlan Osborne
Rory Scott
Lincoln Smith
Seamus Smith

NSW
Bo Abra
Angus Bell
Darcy Breen
Liam Cornish
Ben Donaldson
Max Douglas
Brooklyn Hardaker
Will Harris
Will Harrison
Jack Lafolafo
Nathan Lawson
Ciaran Loh
Jack Murray
Ed Poolman
Henry Robertson
Lachlan Shelly
Pat Tafa
Joey Walton
Hunter Ward
Jeremy Williams
Finn Wright
Yool Yool
Triston Reilly

Queensland
Nathan Carroll
Will Chaffey
Lachlan Connors
Joe Cotton
Will Deardon
Ethan Dobbins
Max Dowd
Will Feeney
Reno Gerrard
Carter Gordon
Lloyd Gorman
Isaac Henry
Phoenix Hunt
Elijah Kefu
Tom Kibble
Tyrell Kopua
Viliami Lea
Isaac Lucas
Emmanuel Maliko
Callum McDonald
Fraser McReight
Josh Nasser
Kye Oates
Ben Paxton-Hall
Jordan Petaia
Byron Ralston
Sam Samu
Egan Siggs
Tristan Stanghon
Bayley Tau Tau
Laurence Tominiko
Emosi Tuqiri
Liam Usher
Rhys Van Nek
Harry Wilson
Michael Wood
Jeral Skelton

Victoria
Oliver Barden
Esei Haangana
Trevor Hosea
Tom Jeffries
Sione Tui
Semisi Tupou

Western Australia
Oliver Callan
Jack Hardy
Victor Harris
Brody Macaskill
Michael McDonald
Jackson Pugh
Carlo Tizzano

http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/10...extended-squad

Well done to all the WA boys selected, at least the young one's are not being ignored by RA just yet.

Extremely proud of the WA lads!! Go well guys!!

RA do make a contribution to the high performance, i.e. Future Force, program, so you are right TIF - they haven’t yet abandoned the high performance pathway in WA!

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Extremely proud of the WA lads!! Go well guys!!

RA do make a contribution to the high performance, i.e. Future Force, program, so you are right TIF - they haven’t yet abandoned the high performance pathway in WA!

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Less than 10% of the squad are from WA.
37 players from Qld and 7 from WA. Brisbane City 9 beat WA U19 by 1 point?
23 from NSW


http://www.rugby.com.au/news/2018/10...ship-final-day

ROUND ONE
Saturday September 29

Sydney 14 - Barbarians 32

Queensland Country 49 - Melbourne Rebels 7

Brisbane 31 - Western Force 30

NSW Country Eagles 12 - Brumbies 31

ROUND TWO
Monday October 1

Queensland Country 30 - Barbarians 25

Brisbane 28 - Brumbies 12

Sydney 26 - Melbourne Rebels 28

NSW Country Eagles 36 - Western Force 22

FIXTURES

ROUND THREE
Wednesday October 3

Melbourne Rebels 3 - Barbarians 40

Brumbies 25 - Western Force 19

Sydney 14 - Queensland Country 41

Brisbane 33 - NSW Country Eagles 19

PLAYOFFS

Friday October 5

7th place final: Sydney Rays 31 - Western Force 40

5th place final: NSW Country Eagles 78 - Rebels 0

Bronze final: Brumbies 29 - Barbarians 21

Final: Queensland Country 7 - Brisbane City 41

Oh I know, JSJ. But considering how much RA would love WA to just shut up and go away quietly, the fact that we have as many as 7 in the squad is a real triumph I reckon!

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But considering how much RA would love WA to just shut up and go away quietly, the fact that we have as many as 7 in the squad is a real triumph I reckon!

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Precisely!

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Oh I know, JSJ. But considering how much RA would love WA to just shut up and go away quietly, the fact that we have as many as 7 in the squad is a real triumph I reckon!

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NSW and QLD had 2 teams in the comp.
But looking purely at the results, one would expect something like

27 from Qld, 20 from NSW, 15 from ACT, 12 from WA, 12 from "Barbarians" and 5 from Rebels = 87 total
(I dont know where the "Barbarians" fit into the states)

For such a tiny place, the ACT is very well represented.

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For such a tiny place, the ACT is very well represented.

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Was it last year, that ACT schoolboys won the schoolboys, and then were largely ignored, when the Australian schoolboys team was selected full of NSW boys? ACT must be doing something right.

And the Rebels were belted by everybody except the Sydney Rays.

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Was it last year, that ACT schoolboys won the schoolboys, and then were largely ignored, when the Australian schoolboys team was selected full of NSW boys? ACT must be doing something right.

And the Rebels were belted by everybody except the Sydney Rays.

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Yeah ACT Schoolboys won last year, some of the players past over for selection were in Year 11. ACT based kids do a year 10 certificate so they can leave schools then with a results cert. This rules out a lot of kids as they are no longer at school. I don't think the year 10 leaving rate is not as high as it used to be,