16th Dec 2013

Over 60 of Australia's most promising 16-18 year old rugby league players will converge on the NSWRL Centre of Excellence, Narrabeen, in the New Year for the annual 16-18 years Emerging Blues Camp. The one-day camp, which will include two skills sessions, presentations on Origin culture and lectures on sports science and team leadership, will be held on Thursday January 9. "We were really successful at an age level against Queensland this year where we won every fixture and this age bracket is important to me because it is the beginning of the elite Origin pathway," NSW VB Blues coach Laurie Daley said. "There are players from all over the state and the quality of the players selected is first class because of the development pathways the League has had in place for decades. "Another positive is the fact we will have several players from our victorious 2013 Indigenous Under 16s side attending as part of the group. "These days are about introducing the players to the processes involved with camps, seeing how they adapt to different conditions and viewing how easily they can assimilate what we need from them." Members of the ASSRL Under 15 Merit A Side from NSW and the ACT have also been invited to attend the camp by Daley and his High Performance group. The 16-18 years Emerging Blues Camp is the second of three pre-season camps held by Daley and his coaching staff. The Rabbitohs players are -

Nat Butcher (South Sydney Rabbitohs, South Eastern)
Liam Coleman (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Mascot) 
Brock Gray (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Mascot) 
Gabriel Hamlin (South Sydney Rabbitohs, South Eastern)
Paul Momirovski (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Alexandria) 
Reimis Smith (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Gungahlin) 
Jonathon Tufuga (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Mascot Jets)