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He’s only 17. Let’s see how he looks when training with the top squad this summer and playing with our Jersey Flegg team.
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I’m getting the feeling that because he’s only 17, we should see how he looks when training with the top squad this summer, and playing with our Jersey Flegg team


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Xavier has been named for the Tweed Seagulls MM side so might be staying another year on the GC and then heading to Canberra in 2021.

If you search for Red Corner Promotions on Facebook there is some footage of him carving up for the Cairns Crusaders U17's at the recent Murri Carnival.
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ALX22 wrote: October 7, 2019, 7:28 pm Xavier has been named for the Tweed Seagulls MM side so might be staying another year on the GC and then heading to Canberra in 2021.

If you search for Red Corner Promotions on Facebook there is some footage of him carving up for the Cairns Crusaders U17's at the recent Murri Carnival.
I’d like him to come down for preseason and do some sprint training with our back 3.
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He's said he is coming down for pre season training with the top 30 side.
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greeneyed wrote: October 7, 2019, 8:52 pm He's said he is coming down for pre season training with the top 30 side.
Cheers for that good news.
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I'm assuming he'll play FLegg next year and then maybe Mounties unless he's a Cotric level talent.

From what I understand he's always played league, not necessarily a sprinter turning his hand to league late?
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He's a real footy player.
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BadnMean wrote: October 8, 2019, 9:38 am From what I understand he's always played league?
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Hope he gets to skip flegg or he will just end up on the scrap heap like all the other talent we have and cant retain from this year.


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Ronny P wrote: October 9, 2019, 10:13 am Hope he gets to skip flegg or he will just end up on the scrap heap like all the other talent we have and cant retain from this year.


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That would be exciting, I've just never really seen him in person or even a full game so no idea if he can handle it vs men. Whereas Cotric I knew and I'd seen and never had any doubt he would be physical enough.

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He's only 17, or maybe just turned 18. I think that you have to be at least 18 before you can play NRL, but we shouldn't be expecting any more than Jersey Flegg for him at the moment.
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He played for Northern Cyclones in a indigenous RL carnival in Cairns... Speed machine!
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Hope he knows how to score a try because if he makes a break there sure as hell won’t be anyone in our backline keeping pace for an offload....
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Simonsson and CNK are no slouches. Wighton is fast across the first 40metres too.
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Seiffert82 wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:01 pm Simonsson and CNK are no slouches. Wighton is fast across the first 40metres too.
Not saying I’d keep pace with any of them but comparative to other teams these guys aren’t the quickest.
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Billy Walker wrote:Hope he knows how to score a try because if he makes a break there sure as hell won’t be anyone in our backline keeping pace for an offload....
So this is your new thing, is it?
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The Rickman wrote: October 23, 2019, 7:02 pm
Billy Walker wrote:Hope he knows how to score a try because if he makes a break there sure as hell won’t be anyone in our backline keeping pace for an offload....
So this is your new thing, is it?
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greeneyed wrote: October 9, 2019, 2:27 pm He's only 17, or maybe just turned 18. I think that you have to be at least 18 before you can play NRL, but we shouldn't be expecting any more than Jersey Flegg for him at the moment.
Have to be 18 to play NRL - that's why Lebanon got into a kerfuffle at the International Nines. Because they were being played under the asupices/organisation/something-or-other of the NRL, all players were meant to be 18 and Lebanon had a couple of 17 year old Holy Cross guys.

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Billy Walker wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:33 pm
Seiffert82 wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:01 pm Simonsson and CNK are no slouches. Wighton is fast across the first 40metres too.
Not saying I’d keep pace with any of them but comparative to other teams these guys aren’t the quickest.
Simonsson is one of the quickest in the NRL

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/29/sim ... top-speed/
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edwahu wrote:
Billy Walker wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:33 pm
Seiffert82 wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:01 pm Simonsson and CNK are no slouches. Wighton is fast across the first 40metres too.
Not saying I’d keep pace with any of them but comparative to other teams these guys aren’t the quickest.
Simonsson is one of the quickest in the NRL

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/29/sim ... top-speed/
Lets all hope he can just tackle and catch.........Darren Clarke was a great example of how much value a fast runner adds.....


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Is there anything to suggest he can’t tackle and catch?
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Ronny P wrote: October 24, 2019, 5:52 am
edwahu wrote:
Billy Walker wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:33 pm
Seiffert82 wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:01 pm Simonsson and CNK are no slouches. Wighton is fast across the first 40metres too.
Not saying I’d keep pace with any of them but comparative to other teams these guys aren’t the quickest.
Simonsson is one of the quickest in the NRL

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/29/sim ... top-speed/
Lets all hope he can just tackle and catch.........Darren Clarke was a great example of how much value a fast runner adds.....


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Darren Clarke was out of the game for 5-10 years as a sprinter, running in straight lines without being near a footy.

Savage, like most athletic kids do in their teens, sprints and plays footy. He just happens to be really good at the sprinting part too. I haven't heard anyone say he can't play yet.
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edwahu wrote: October 23, 2019, 11:39 pm
Billy Walker wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:33 pm
Seiffert82 wrote: October 23, 2019, 6:01 pm Simonsson and CNK are no slouches. Wighton is fast across the first 40metres too.
Not saying I’d keep pace with any of them but comparative to other teams these guys aren’t the quickest.
Simonsson is one of the quickest in the NRL

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/05/29/sim ... top-speed/
I did mention that in another thread (without the link). It didn't get much traction because people saw him run down once (Fatigue? Angle? Just having the ball slows players down which most people forget- a top speed on a chase will be quicker than on a try run)
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Billy Walker wrote: October 23, 2019, 10:05 pm
The Rickman wrote: October 23, 2019, 7:02 pm
Billy Walker wrote:Hope he knows how to score a try because if he makes a break there sure as hell won’t be anyone in our backline keeping pace for an offload....
So this is your new thing, is it?
Hey Nick - like the new pic. Good to see you’re mixing it up in the off-season.
Thanks, I thought you'd like it.
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greeneyed wrote: October 24, 2019, 5:57 am Is there anything to suggest he can’t tackle and catch?
No - I’m a Simmonsen fan. I think he looks really good. I wouldn’t have said he was that quick but hope I’m wrong.

I saw him run down easily in the 9’s but that maybe raises other questions. Perhaps he is very quick but needs to up fitness to maintain speed over 80 mins?

For instance the Fox is widely viewed as the swiftest runner in the game, but make him knock out 10 x 400 meter sprints back to back and immediately put him up against Papa over a 50 meter dash and my money is on Papa given the circumstances.
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The Rickman wrote: October 24, 2019, 12:00 pm
Billy Walker wrote: October 23, 2019, 10:05 pm
The Rickman wrote: October 23, 2019, 7:02 pm
Billy Walker wrote:Hope he knows how to score a try because if he makes a break there sure as hell won’t be anyone in our backline keeping pace for an offload....
So this is your new thing, is it?
Hey Nick - like the new pic. Good to see you’re mixing it up in the off-season.
Thanks, I thought you'd like it.
Who is the picture of in the G?
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He’s not named in our flesh squad. Back flipped maybe?
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Ilanraiders wrote: November 22, 2019, 1:34 pm He’s not named in our flesh squad. Back flipped maybe?
I thought someone may have said he would stay up in QLD one more year.

I think he is still SG ball eligible as well.
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