How the Norths boy go in the cutain rasier?

[Mike_The_Undertaker]

How the Norths boy go in the cutain rasier?

I know the scores but thats about alll

NSW 17's 52 def Qld 17's 26

QLD 19's 42 def Wa Develpment 20

[Earl]

Apparantly Greg Inglis (playing at fullback) was easily QLD's best player.

I hope we sign him up

[Fampa]

Apparantly Greg Inglis (playing at fullback) was easily QLD's best player.

It wasn't too hard to be QLDs best player. The QLD U17s team sucked. Big time. It was painful to watch.

Seriously, Greg was exciting with the ball but he just didn't get it that much. The problem with these sorts of big games, particularly with junior players, is that they treat these games as 'their big chance'. Now these young fellas can't show off their wares when they don't have the ball, so they don't pass. The forwards, if they get the ball, will go one up, and the halves are just looking to impress scouts with their footwork. The centres, and certainly the wingers are lucky if they get the ball, at all. IN defence, the forwards went up for the individual big hit and more often than not left a gap in the defensive line.

Greg went looking for the ball, always in support, but no one passed it to him when there was an oppotunity. The NSW team however, played like a team and threw it wide at every oppotunity. I got to the game only 20 minutes into it and it was already 34 - 4. Almost all their tries scored on the wing. QLD were at their most dangerous when they actually threw it wide and Greg joined in for a break. Then.... a winger would try and chip it ahead for himself with usually disasterous results.

It was not exactly the curtain raiser the crowd was looking for.

But at least we beat those nastly West Australians. Do we have a name for them, like the cockraoches, yet?