The special skills and body types the Australian schoolboys rugby coach is searching for at the schools championships this week are quite specific. So what players matter the most to him?
He’s only been playing a few years, has kept fit helping his family harvest and is hoping the Australian Schools rugby championships this week will help ignite a career in rugby.
Weapons, speedsters, big units, a player with Joseph Suaalii athleticism and a ‘man boy’ – the rising stars to watch at the Australian schools rugby championships. FULL TEAM LISTS
Good blokes off the field, bullies on it. That’s the goal of a team with big aspirations at the Australian Schools rugby titles. The favourites, dark horse, biggest menace ahead of the championships
He’s the son of a dual code international who was born in France and then raised in regional NSW before shifting to Queensland. So why is the now with the Waratahs academy?
The coach singled out some special players for mention as the Waratahs under 20s completed a special double against the Queensland Reds in front of Aussie selectors. Stars, result wrap.
A few weeks ago this skill was two-time world sailor and SailGP skipper Tom Slingsby’s superpower. Now it has disappeared and he is completely mystified. LA SailGP wrap
Fighting spirit, a great save, a two-try star and dread helped produced an epic battle as the best and brightest teenagers in the Waratah and Reds U18s Academies battled. Stars, result wrap
Tom Slingsby’s Australian crew had to grab one of the strangest – and low tech – pieces of equipment on their hi tech foiling catamaran to save the day at the LA SailGP regatta
They have had the mail over their Queensland rivals for years but now the Waratahs U18s have enlisted some usually help to keep their winning run intact this weekend – women. SQUAD named
Tom Slingsby has unveiled the Australian master plan to take the SailGP series lead from Great Britain while putting his team on high alert for drama and destruction at the LA regatta.
In Paris Jessica and Noemie Fox watched each other win gold medals from the shoreline. In Penrith later this year the sisters will be pitted against each other in the search for world crowns
A famous name from rugby league watched on as the Waratahs U20s played to impress against Western Force ahead of Aussie U20 squad selection. Stars, standouts and great photos.
It was supposed to be a game showcasing the future of the sport but very little went to plan as the Waratahs hosted Fiji Drua in a match where records fell from the first minute of the match.
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