Extremely talented pack, if developed correctly, should be the best pack in Academy rugby, by a distance.

But there lies the problem, development. Mentioned in the pre-season thread, i cant believe the lack of physical development these second year academy lads look to have had over the last 12 month, granted thats the backs, but they looked tiny, like they hadnt been in a gym for the last year.



Fortunately, the packs got plenty of natural size



7.Smith

6.Brown



Two quality halfs, with Jacob Hardy, who can play backrow, 6 or centre, potentially the best player out of all of them, to fit in somewhere aswel.

Jacob Tooala and sonny Hetherington are both in their 2nd year of Scholarship this coming season, both among the best in the country in their age group, both play centre for their community clubs. Both got good builds, Hetherington in particular, he's well over 6ft already

Ned Mccormack out for the season and Max Simpson out for a further 8 week with a hamstring according to Peter Smith



Its actually unbelievable how many long term injuries our Academy players pick up



Clubs bloody cursed

It really is starting to feel that way. Call in the priests!

Hamstrung by hamstrings.



Quite bizarre how many our out with hamstring injury

Very disappointing news along with Sivo. I have high hopes for McCormack and Simpson and the latest Simpson setback is very concerning.