Toyota Cup

[Guest]

After the first 2 seasons of the toyota cup, in 2008 dead last, 2009 10th i think, this is absolutely amazing

the top 8
1 Roosters 8 4 2 21
2 Wests Tigers 8 4 2 20
3 Rabbitohs 9 4 1 20
4 Cowboys 8 5 1 18
5 Sea Eagles 8 4 1 18
6 Raiders 7 5 2 18
7 Warriors 6 6 2 17
8 Broncos 7 6 1 16

[Vasco]

Has Scott Murray improved as a coach or does he just have a golden team?

[Guest]

Has Scott Murray improved as a coach or does he just have a golden team?

Scott Murray coached the SG Ball a few years back to a premiership

The kids are developing and he coach a few of them back in SG Ball. This is team that has been in the making for a few years and they are relatively young by NYC standards (ie could play NYC for a few more years)

Probably a combination of both. Murray is a good coach and his players are muturing and developing as players

[TheLoneRooster]

Great news and we'll actually get to see them on Fox Sport 2 next week.

[Vasco]

Scott Murray coached the SG Ball a few years back to a premiership

The kids are developing and he coach a few of them back in SG Ball. This is team that has been in the making for a few years and they are relatively young by NYC standards (ie could play NYC for a few more years)

Probably a combination of both. Murray is a good coach and his players are muturing and developing as players

Interesting. Many here have labelled Murray as a dud.

[Guest]

Scott Murray is a great coach. the reason U20s are going so well this year is because he has full control of them. he puts out the team he wants each week.

last year he had little say, because Freddy would tell him what team to play, what game plan to play.

well do Scotty.

[stephenj]

good job scott

[Roosterfarian]

What's also very interesting is this one mun...

13 Dragons 13 12 5 0 8 1 259 311 -52

They've gone from making finals and grand finals to bottom placed.

Who is their NEW coach again?

[Cockadoodledoo]

What's also very interesting is this one mun...

13 Dragons 13 12 5 0 8 1 259 311 -52

They've gone from making finals and grand finals to bottom placed.

Who is their NEW coach again?

Don't knock their coach, he should be coaching our Firsts team lol..

[Guest]

Don't knock their coach, he should be coaching our Firsts team lol..

i don't think so adrian lam is no coach

[Kingbilly]

Scott Murray is a great coach. the reason U20s are going so well this year is because he has full control of them. he puts out the team he wants each week.

last year he had little say, because Freddy would tell him what team to play, what game plan to play.

This is the is the crux of the truth and the reason also that Lam had trouble.

[Guest]

Some pleasing figures from some of our under-20s players:

Ethan Lowe (second row)

13 games, 2 tries, 5 linebreaks, 2 try assists, 15 offloads, 35 tackle breaks, average 11 runs for 93 metres, average 30 tackles

Sam Brunton (hooker)

10 games, 7 tries, 6 linebreaks, 2 try assists, 23 tackle breaks, average 6 runs for 67 metres, 22 tackles

Ben Jones (centre/five-eighth)

5 games, 7 tries, 7 linebreaks, 3 try assists, 23 tackle breaks, average 5 runs for 52 metres

Mark Kheirallah (wing)

12 games, 15 tries, 13 linebreaks, 3 try assists, 39 tackle breaks, average 9 runs for 103 metres

Jack Littlejohn (five-eighth/centre)

11 games, 6 tries, 6 linebreaks, 3 try assists, 27 tackle breaks, average 7 runs for 58 metres

Isaac Maliota (prop)

13 games, 1 try, 3 linebreaks, 32 tackle breaks, average 12 runs for 116 metres

Ben Murray (halfback)

13 games, 1 try, 3 linebreaks, 25 try assists, 15 tackle breaks

Hughie Stanley (fullback)

13 games, 10 tries, 6 linebreaks, 1 try assist, 39 tackle breaks, average 9 runs for 89 metres

[Roosterfarian]

i don't think so adrian lam is no coach

I think he was being facetious mun...

Some punters here rate him.

[Guest]

To be honest I couldn't care what the results are in the Toyota Cup or S.G. Ball. Yeh it is nice to win but we are only a success if we are developing kids into 1st grade players. So many times I have seen teams and individuals dominate at the junior level but they end up playing park footy.

At that level the results shouldn't be put ahead of the development of the players. So I wouldn't be so quick to judge our youth coaches just on results, you have to look at the big picture.