This season, the Seasonal Rugby Championship will be touring Samoa. Both developmental and Test squads will be assembled for a whirlwind tour of the Pacific Island. The scheduled games are: 1. Samoa vs. Seasonal Rugby Rookies 2. Samoa vs. Reserves Select XV 3. Samoa vs. Seasonal Rugby XV (First Test) 4. Samoa vs. Seasonal Rugby XV (Second Test) 5. Samoa vs. Seasonal Rugby XV (Third Test) Squads for these games will be announced in due course.
Squad Announcement Rookies 1. Kovana Solosolo 2. Soft Steel 3. Isaac Dipper 4. Tool Man 5. Yeeb 6. Antone Sciappapetre 7. Anthony Couch 8. Bosh Burger 9. Fourie van der Westhuizen 10. Dan Larkinson 11. Girve Swervington 12. Darren Cave 13. Bobrad Smith 14. Alex Mediocre 15. Uve Locity 16. Cunning Stunt 17. Henry Daman 18. Reagan Wheelson 19. Maroon Faithful 20. Senor Slippy 21. Helen Huntsface 22. Matt James Reserve Select XV 1. Niru Gurupur 2. Chris Smith 3. Clayton Evans 4. Yeeb 5. John McGrath 6. Charlie Downes 7. JD Hurricane 8. Pretzel Spark 9. Fourie van der Westhuizen 10. Dan Larkinson 11. Girve Swervington 12. Bobrad Smith 13. Sam Green 14. Truman Lee 15. Sticky Phlegm 16. Antone Sciappapetre 17. Zohaib Ikram 18. Hache Emm 19. Chris Raftery 20. Ishan Narang 21. Hal Teja 22. Matt James Test Squad PROPS Wes Welker (Gamblers) Benny Read (Gamblers) Os Du Toit (Crabs) Aaron O'Neill (Gamblers) HOOKERS Tom Delonge (Vikings) Eddie Morris (Sharks) Alan Izett (Spartans) LOCKS Heath Davis (Spartans) James McDougal (Sharks) Sam Verigotta (Sharks) FLANKERS Callum Laing (Spartans) Ben Manera (Vikings) Geraint Martyn (Crabs) Siege Morgan (Vikings) NUMBER 8'S Brett Gemmell (Gamblers) Marcuss Deane (Spartans) SCRUM HALVES Rob Cribb (Spartans) Sam Bakkum (Sharks) FLY HALVES Ed Ames (Hurricanes) Aaron Hunt (Vikings) WINGERS Andrew James (Vikings) Regan Hutchinson(Sharks) Lucas Schaw (Spartans) Matt Dorn (Spartans) CENTRES Gareth Weaver (Hurricanes) Stephen Cambridge (Vikings) John Heads (Crabs) Geoff Smith (Spartans) FULLBACKS Bobby Blunder (Spartans) Ginger Furball (Crabs)
You have to turn tricks to make the team. #Notbitter (Just winding you up Heef I have bigger issues in my life to deal with than non selection in a cricsim XV) Cheers
It's a strong squad. I'm ready for action but I doubt I'm getting much time if North South is anything to go by.
I expect we'll have a possibles vs. probables match and any outstanding performances in that game are likely to earn a player a starting berth.
I am not fussed as my focuses at the moment are reading through a 150 page ebook on B2B marketing and then losing 5kgs. But my reflections on the matter are that regardless of Skippos being picked if the North South games (where I was man of the match in one game) had any bearing at all on the test match selection then I should have been one of the first names on the team sheet regardless of position. That said it makes it hard for me to be picked for a test side when I am only a bench player in club rugby and I think that fact was not lost on the selector.
We've got enough top-tier players for their positions that 6 Sharks shouldn't be surprising, hell I must've missed this quite narrowly with Gemmell being marginally better at NvS.