2025 Langer Trophy live stream: Ipswich SHS v Marsden SHS, Round 2

Ipswich SHS has already had a whopping 14 Langer Trophy debutants and one more will join the club against Marsden SHS on Wednesday. Watch the schools league triple header LIVE.

A whopping 14 of a possible 17 Ipswich State High players made their Langer Trophy debuts in last week’s season opener against Wavell State High — and one more is set to join the club on Wednesday.

The school will welcome Marsden SHS to the North Ipswich Reserve for Round 2, where Year 11 dummyhalf Peter Uilavai-Pita will look to provide a boost for the hosts.

That clash will be live streamed exclusively on KommunityTV from 5.30pm as part of a triple header also featuring the Walters Cup and Schoolgirls Cup matches.

A high-class performer for the Ipswich Jets earlier this year in the Cyril Connell Cup, the young defensive dynamo will join a long list of new Langer Cup combatants for the school this season.

Ipswich State High’s Peter Uilavai-Pita.

The honour roll also includes Mel Nonu, Tevita Pomale, Tomu Cook, Lleyton Alofa-Fotu, TJ Sauaso, Tiger Campbell, Jaylen Naleba, Elyjah Suavai-Laumatia, Neyon Taito, Cooper Young, Ceasar Yeatman, Eddie Fa’amausili, Kolby Munro and Jed Leafa.

That extensive list, comprising a promising crop of Year 11s, typifies the faith coach Josh Bretherton has in his young troops to spearhead Ipswich SHS into a new chapter against quality opposition.

“We’re a little bit younger this year which is exciting for the next year or two,” said Bretherton.

Exciting is a word that best describes Ipswich’s halves pairing of Sauaso and Campbell, who will line up against Kiwi five-eighth Jordan Hotere and Queensland Schoolboys selection Hayden Watson from 5.30pm.

Jordan Hotere (left), Hayden Watson (middle) and Tamai Baker (right) following Marsden’s Round 1 Langer Trophy win over Stretton State College.

TJ Sauaso – whose last name is familiar in Ipswich rugby league given accomplished dual-code sister Shalom and former Redbank Plains premiership-winning brother Samson – is Skilled with a capital S.

“The thing that has always impressed me about TJ is his excellent control of the game,” Bretherton said.

“He has been with us since Year 7 so he understands exactly how we want to play, where we want things to go. He’s highly skilled on his passing and kicking game.

“He adds so much value.”

TJ Sauaso had the ball on a string in a match in last year’s Walters Cup competition.

Sauaso’s halves partner Campbell, an Ipswich Jet and Rugby League Ipswich junior from the Norths Tigers, had been playing school rugby for St Edmund’s College prior to moving schools midway through last year.

“He’s just a really lovely kid who has come in with a skill set already loaded with plenty of weapons,” Bretherton said.

“He’s a quality young man who has wanted to learn and get up to speed on how we do things.”

Tiger Campbell in action during the 2024 AIC First XV rugby season. Picture, John Gass

The crafty pair of playmakers both had disjointed pre-seasons rehabilitating injuries so it might take a little while longer for Ipswich SHS to find its groove.

Bretherton is hoping the North Ipswich Reserve can be the fortress they open their account in.

“It (The Reserve) certainly has been (our fortress) in the past. The desire is to put on a good performance,” Bretherton said.

“We have been lucky enough the last few years that it has been a difficult place for people to come.

“Whether this year it will be or not, that’s in our hands.

“We have to show up and put in a performance that is worthy of making it a difficult place to come and play at.”

Marsden SHS also had a number of debut boys in its round 1 win over Stretton.

Winger Jeremiah Toko, centre Madden Falaniko, five-eighth Hotere, props Ethan Jackson and Koby McGarrity, pacy forward Tamai Baker, and interchange players Brandon Lemalu, Zack Lotaki and Kaharau Reti each got their first taste.

Match-hardended prop Levi Rusin comes into the lineup for round 2, with power-forward Lotaki nursing an ankle injury which will keep him out until the second round of games after the holidays.

Originally published as 2025 Langer Trophy live stream: Ipswich SHS v Marsden SHS, Round 2