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This tour was unlike previous tours gone by.
Labelled WA's best ever state 16's side the pressure was on straight from the begining.
We began our journey towards the national championships wen we touched down canberra airport 10pm local time. Checked into our budget accomodation for the night and tryed to get rest before our trial game against ACT.
TRIAL GAME V ACT
Team: 1 Sam Smith 2 Nick Corsbie 3 Oli Hoskins 4 Lachie Valentine 5 Bryan Lush 6 Hayden Croghan 7 Nathan Oakley 8 Manasseh Gudgeon 9 Shaun Baker 10 Kyle Godwin 11 Jordan Simi 12 Jerome Rameka 13 Jordan Smith 14 Jack Dawson 15 Curtis Rona 16 Tristan Ashford 17 Todd Wilcox 18 Chris Johnson 19 James Eliaschewsky 20 Liam Burley 21 Sean Taggart 22 Stephan Blair 23 Lachie Burges
Result: ACT 25 def WA 8
Scorers: Tristan Ashford try; Kyle Godwin penalty
We played for only the second as a team although the scoreline didnt reflect the game we were still positive, if we had came across ACT at nationals we would be able to knock up a win.
Nudgee College
Game 1 v Sydney Juniors
This was a team that we had played the previous year and drawn.
The game started. First 5minutes WA scores. Perfectly executed lineout backine move offload and score untouched. 7-0
Sadly this was the only highlight of the game, from that game on sydney juniors dominated everything. We as a team were intimidated by the size of the juniors and held off tackles etc... which gave us no chance in securing a top 4 placing.
Team: 1 Todd Willcox 2 Tristan Ashford 3 Oli Hoskins 4 Lachie Valentine 5 James Eliaschewsky 6 Hayden Croghan 7 Nathan Oakley 8 Manasseh Gudgeon 9 Shaun Baker 10 Kyle Godwin 11 Jack Dawson 12 Jerome Rameka 13 Jordan Smith 14 Jordan Simi 15 Curtis Rona 16 Nick Corsbie 17 Sam Smith 18 Chris Johnson 19 Bryan Lush 20 Liam Burley 21 Sean Taggart 22 Stephen Blair 23 Lachie Burges
Result: Sydney Juniors 22 def WA 7
Scorers: Kyle Godwin try; Jack Dawson conversion
match report - RugbyWA | WA STATE JUNIOR SIDES IN ACTION IN BRISBANE
Game 2 v Brumbies
Team: 1 Todd Willcox 2 Tristan Ashford 3 Oli Hoskins 4 Lachie Valentine 5 James Eliaschewsky 6 Manasseh Gudgeon 7 Liam Burley 8 Nathan Oakley 9 Shaun Baker 10 Kyle Godwin 11 Lachlan Burges 12 Jack Dawson 13 Jordan Smith 14 Jordan Simi 15 Curtis Rona 16 Nick Corsbie 17 Sam Smith 18 Chris Johnson 19 Bryan Lush 20 Jerome Rameka 21 Sean Taggart 22 Stephen Blair inj Hayden Croghan
WA dominated ever section of the game just failed to cross the line. Brumbies didnt win the game WA lost it with undiscipline. Tourning point when a duboius yellow card was given to WA playmaker flyhalf Kyle Godwin for a late hit the ball landed 20m directly in front, they slot it. In replay clearly wasnt but hey, thats rugby. Hardest game i have ever had to watch.
final score 6-3
penalty - Jack Dawson (1/2)
Game 3 v Prictoria
WA came up against West Auckland in the final game. Only 3 players in the side that werent polynesian.
Result: WA 13 def Vic 12
Scorers: Lachie Valentine try; Kyle Godwin 1 con, 2 pens
Team: 1 Todd Willcox 2 Tristan Ashford 3 Oli Hoskins 4 Lachie Valentine 5 James Eliaschewsky 6 Manasseh Gudgeon 7 Liam Burley 8 Nathan Oakley 9 Shaun Baker 10 Kyle Godwin 11 Jordan Simi 12 Jordan Smith 13 Jack Dawson 14 Lachie Burges 15 Curtis Rona 16 Nick Corsbie 17 Sam Smith 18 Chris Johnson 19 Bryan Lush 20 Hayden Croghan 21 Sean Taggart 22 Jerome Rameka 23 Stephen Blair
Once again WA dominated every section of the game. Some dubious yellow cards by the ref didnt help WA cause but by this part of the tournement we had come to live with the fact that no one likes WA. To the boys credit we won but we should have buried the VICS.
After showing so much promise WA finishes 7th but could have quite easily picked up 3rd. But when we only score 2 trys in the championships you cant expect to win many.
FINAL STANDINGS
Division One
ROD MACQUEEN SHIELD (1st place) Queensland Red
Runners up Queensland White
3rd - SYDNEY JUNIORS
4th - NSW SCHOOLS
5th - NSW COUNTRY
6th- BRUMBIES
7th - WA
8th - PRICTORIA
DIVISION TWO
1st - National Indigenious
2nd - South Australia
3rd - Northern Territory
4th - Tasmania
Player of the tournement LIAM GILL #7 Queensland Reds
well done! sounds like you had a blast
one of those guys goes to my stupid-afl-state-champion school. he and i are the trendy ones with western force bags. so cool...
A kick in this game is like a rather nasty alcoholic shooter, only as good as it's chaser...
Courtesy of quality South African commentry
and who is that
Well done mate and nice write up too.
Noticed ACT and NT tracksuits in Brisbane airport last night, I guess that's where they had been.
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.
good to see QLD finish 1 and 2, apparently there are a few NSW officials quite dissapointed at the results, sour grapes
well QLD were in a league of there own all tournement.
NSW selectors cocked up majorly this year
to have a suposide second string side - sydney juniors beat the cream of NSW schoolboy rugby. Pretty poor.
NSW schools - anyone can play aslong as they play for school, so a country boy can play or a juniros player
Juniors- Boys playing club or school.
Country - self explainatory
there were a few juniors boys that were eligible for schools didnt get selected and then showed the selectors what a big mistake they had made..
Ide hate to play for country next year they finished 5th so they play 4th which is schools and the selectors next year will go out of their way to make the best possible team they can.
well if thats wot u call it
it was a nswru and qldru comp
WA got fucked over in everything
with the refs - didnt like us.
our accomodation - oldest boarding block with the biggest dickheads sharing with us
our equipment - someone knocked off our rugbyballs before the start of the tournement and the aru didnt get us an more so we trained with what nudgee provided us. thank god for the giving people there.
hey one game we didnt get a change room
and they changed times for clinics didnt tell us we miss out
we didnt get an eski
wow. had to get it out of my system
i dislike eastern staters that think they are better then the ' poor cousins in the west'
Which boarding block did they put you in?
ummm i forgot what house it was
it was the one as you go into nudgee the first one on the left
opposite the yr5-7 buildings
i felt so sorry for the perminant residence having to put up with all the noise
bam bams bro is heaps awsome!
the pocock brothers are so nice!
BOKKE“Let me put it this way, A Springbok team contains Afrikaners, Englishmen, coloureds and blacks. It has parochial foes in Bulls, Sharks, Stormers, Cheetahs and Lions. It is a recipe for war! Yet in all the years of John Smit’s captaincy, there has never been one unhappy customer, not one voice of rebellion against his leadership. He is the glue that holds the Springboks together. The man is a legend!”- Jake White