0
Following the successful Tour to South Africa and the APC Pre Season matches in Perth, I have got to wondering who may be the first Western Australian Rugby player (not counting Wobber of course) to make it from the local comp through into at least an Apprentice Contract and ultimately take the field in a Super 14 match.
There are so many variables that it is obviously very difficult to identify a couple of individuals, or even a playing position, so for the poll I have left it as what year we may see that happen.
However, I have gone through the various squads since the end of S14 and the following men keep popping up (all at least once in Force Gold) and must surely be amongst our leading first contendors to make the next step?
Would be great to hear from our local club TWF Members more about these fellas, what their backgrounds are and whether they have the ability and capacity to go on with a career.
Also let us know if any of them stood out in any of the matches you saw them play in, either at this level or for their Clubs.
This is after all a large part of what this site is about (apart from Word Assoc...) looking to the future and developing the code around WA.
The "Caps" include this weekends match as well.
Leading Local Force Contenders 2006:
Ryan Tyrell, Force Gold Bench-6, Force Academy Start-1
Ryan Lenegan, Force gold Start-3, Force Gold Bench-2, Force Academy Start-1
Will Brock, Force Gold Start-1, Force Gold Bench-4
Tyler Edwards, Force Gold Start-1, Force Gold Bench-3, Force Academy Start-1
Garth Ziegler, Force Gold Start-3, Force Academy Start-1
Matt Shaw, Force Gold Bench-3
Kieran Longbottom, Force Gold Start-1, Force Gold Bench-2, RWA Dev XV Start-1
Elliot Kuhlmann-Hall, Force Gold Start-1, Force Gold Bench-2, Force Academy Start-1
Kiti Fuluna, Force Gold Start-2, Force Gold Bench-1
Nathan McCort, Force Gold Bench-2, Force Academy Start-1
Bill Johnston, Force Gold Bench-2, Force Academy Bench-1, RWA Dev XV Start-1
Johnathon Stanley, Force Gold Start-1, Force Gold Bench-1, Force Academy Start-1, RWA Dev XV Start-1
Dan Bailey, Force Gold Start-1 (Injured first match in SA)
Greg Plimmer, Force Gold Start-1
Tim Davies, Force Gold Bench-1, Force Academy Bench-1
Others:
Kyle Edwards
John Summers
Ben Calder
Sean Ashton
Curtis McLean
Darcy Bowden
Alex Rufus
David Cloete
Lloyd Johnson
John Menehira
Chris Indich
Ryan Williams
Michael Murphy
Brent Murphy
Anton Wickens
Aidan Higo
PJ Pitman
Brent Murphy
Tristan Winnall
James Stannard
Mike Tabera
Angus Neilson
Matt Shaw
Ben Lindegaard
Tim Carslaw
Kris Martinick