2025 Langer Trophy live stream: Palm Beach Currumbin SHS v Marsden SHS, Round 6

Palm Beach Currumbin has taken inspiration from a Titans stalwart on the eve of a finals-style clash with rivals Marsden State High. Watch the clash LIVE on Wednesday.

Past Palm Beach Currumbin star and Gold Coast rugby league great Ryan James was a surprise guest at training this week as the Langer Trophy’s most southern school prepares to knock proud Marsden into a shock relegation battle.

The Langer Trophy showdown will be exclusively live streamed on KommunityTV as part of a massive triple header between the two schools which also includes the Walters Cup (Year 10) and Schoolgirls Cup.

Two-time Titans’ Paul Broughton Medal winner James spotted the Reds’ Langer Trophy team training while out for a drive this week and pulled over to make an impromptu appearance at training.

James represented the Australian Schoolboys at Palm Beach Currumbin in 2008, the same year he won the Peter Sterling Medal as the finest schoolboy in the nation.

Coach Tim Maccan said James put an arm around PBC’s emerging front rowers to share his 168 games of NRL experience for a match Maccan described as a “grand final” in intensity.

“Ryan was in and around the area driving past and basically stopped in to join the boys for a lesson,” Maccan said.

“Ryan was pulling aside a couple of front rowers to give them some tips and things like that.

“The kids really love the feedback the NRL and ex-NRL players give them, but more importantly, the guys who come in really engage with the kids as well.

“Hopefully that will be a continuing thing for him to pop in every now and again, which would be great.

Ryan James during his playing days for Palm Beach Currumbin in the national final of the then Arrive Alive Cup in 2008.

“I didn’t even know he was coming. That’s usually the way it works here, guys will just drop in. In the past we’ve had guys currently playing NRL who have driven past and dropped in. Luke Garner (Penrith) has done it a couple of times, Toby Sexton (Bulldogs), players like that.

“It’s really good for the boys and it really shows the great culture at the school that when you leave you want to come back.”

Those lessons in front row play will come in handy for Wednesday’s clash with Marsden and the school’s Australian Schoolboys halfback Hayden Watson.

Denying Watson oxygen by smothering Marsden’s forward pack, led by another Australian Schoolboy in Tupou Francis, will be critical in a desperate fixture for the visitors at Tugun Rugby League Club.

Hayden Watson in action for Queensland during the 2025 ASSRL National Championships. Picture: Courtney Thomson

Marsden sit seventh on the Langer Trophy ladder and a loss this week will leave the school with a win, a draw and four losses from six games heading into the final round.

Only the top six teams in the league are guaranteed places in 2026, leaving Marsden to face the real danger of being forced to requalify for the Langer Trophy in 2026.

“Their season is on the line; they need to win their next two games to make the finals so they’re going to come all guns blazing,” PBC coach Maccan said.

“They’re a very good team who probably haven’t played as well as they’d like to.

“They’ve got some quality players and it’s only a matter of time before they put in a good performance.

“We’ve got to be right up for the challenge.”

A loss will leave the school that produced future Immortal Cameron Smith fighting for its future in Queensland’s elite schoolboy competition.