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Mailroomsgi said:
I’d argue Ah Kee is the most ‘gifted’ of all of our prospects. He’s enthralling to watch. He put St George on his back against the bulldogs last year and won us that game on his own. Seriously talented player

And Frank, I’ve learnt that it never shakes out that way with juniors as much as we’d like it too. The odds of the 4 youngsters you’ve named making it as an NRL starter are slim. If we’re lucky maybe 2 of them will be excellent players and as puff said they are still a long way away from first grade.

It is a positive that there are some outstanding spine players in pathways though. You can never have too many guns coming through
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Exactly. It's too early to predict first grade from Harold Matthews. Most Harold Matthews players don't get near first grade. A few years ago, we had an absolute gun centre called Brad Morkos. He didn't just get selected for Australian Schoolboys and NSW U 19s. He was considered to be in the bracket of the most likely to make NRL from these teams. Raiders poached him from us. He's 23 and has walked away from the game. He didn't play in the NRL. He was nearly guaranteed to make it when he was 2 years older than these HM kids.
It also goes the other way. Some eventual first graders couldn't even make Harold Matthews' teams. So we may have some future first graders who didn't even make these teams.
 
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