24/1/2012 - Western Suburbs Rep side @ Hillier, Liverpool 1800ko
27/1/2012 - Wests Tigers @ Concorde Oval 1800ko
02/2/2012 - Canterbury Bulldogs @ West Bank 1815ko

24/1/2012 - Western Suburbs Rep side @ Hillier, Liverpool 1800ko
Wests Tigers squad: Jordan Marshall, Harry Grove, Michael Kai, Ngamanu Winitana, Matt Mulcahy, Manaia Rudolph, Connor Toia, Jarrod Szczudlo, James Luff, Soni Paasi, Sita Akauola, Andy Fiagatusa, Luke Williams, Adrian Tatola, Luke Hickey, Tim Hurst, Jake Waugh, Nafoa Lepai, Menaia Cherrington, Jack Madden, Mitchell Moses, Nathan Scarano.

Hull KR squad: James Beaumont, Rowan Colquhoun, Kristian Bell, Jordan Lee, Luke Hardcastle, Matthew Beharrell, Loyd Ofori, Callum Taylor, Sam Jowsey, Sonny Esslemont, Curtis Pullen, David Scott, Joseph Gay, Richard Clayphan, Jacob Blades, Adam Sunman, James Deighton, Ryan Dale, Craig Smith, Danny Kelso, Callum Tolson, Coaches: Kevin Deighton, Neil Hinchsliff.

Rovers Won 28-24

Is that the Scottish lad? How does he go for you lot.. he seemed like a bit of a talent for Scotland in the Internationals last season. Hope he starts a trend of young Scottish players making their way into the professional game

Judging by the Hull KR forum A few expats went to the game. Dave Scott is indeed the scottish Winger and he unfortunately suffered an ankle injury and his tour could be over. Hopefully it's not that serious and he can make the last game.

I know it's preseason and everything, but wouldn't this tour have been better during the school/college holidays when every member of the 20's and 18's could have gone for the experience?

Dave Scott was looking in great form before he came off injured.

Think before you post.

Are you living in a dream world. If we have members of the squad who are at College and couldn't get 19 days off for a paid trip to travel to Australia for 19 days then I'd question their commitment to being a proffesional RL player.

Well done to KR for doing this. A lot of people (myself included) have criticised them in particular for signing so many cr*p obverseas players - this tour shows a real commitment to junior development.

What he said

....and even better, IIRC, they collected money for entry to Mason first training session last year as a way of helping to fund this....every cloud and all that

Sorry, dont agree with that. Since super league the quality of our overseas players has been very good, and without them we would,nt be were we are now. Our youth policy was non existant at the time due to the lure of super league from our noisy neighbours, and we needed quality to get us on our way. would hardly call Vella,dobson,green,newton,webster,galea,clinton cr*p.

What would you call Bauer, Crossman, Dyer, Gannon & Lennon?

It's easy to be selective when making a point. Our youth policy was appalling until the last 3 years.

Tangata toa, michael smith...Dave "the carthorse"hoskins, James goulding, bob smithies,greg austin the list is endless and they all fall into a select category, and i agree with your selection but our good still outweighs the bad.

I bet the youngsters are having the time of their lives on this trip. By all accounts they have access to great training facilities and are getting top coaching whilst they are out there. Lets hope the experience improves all of their games.
A lot of people at Rovers put a massive amount of work into making this happen. Lets hope the rewards are there for all to see over the coming months and years.
I'm sure Rovers arnt the first to do this though. Havnt Saints embarked on a tour like this before? We are certainly following a great example if they have.

What matters now is that our youth is starting to come through.

Welham
Taylor
Cox

Just to name 3 that I hope will be appearing in a Rovers shirt for years to come.

Yeah Saints have done it two or three times, most recently a few months ago. If I remember rightly the likes of Jonny Lomax and Tommy Makinson were on the first tour.

Your rovers fans should keep an eye out for a young player called Moran who is now down at rovers academy. He is only 15 and plays for Hull Wyke in the Yorkshire U16's Combination League. Plays against older kids week in week out and he is on fire and is looking the part. He is an FC fan but chose to go to KR for his further development.

Best ten sheets I've ever spent to watch someone take a dump, well, apart from that time in Phuket...

well done HKR a great initiative, you deserve respect for this.

One of the centres on the current Aussie tour is 18yo Jacob Blades, he was at Hull FC last season but moved to Rovers for the same reason.

Finished 52-8 to wests, no goal kicks in the match, Wests looked a more physically developed side, number 8 and number 10 for Wests were very impressive constantly punching holes in the Hull KR defense, 3 or 4 Hull players went off injured as result of trying to tackle the bigger players. There were a few good tries scored by Wests.

Finished 52-8 to wests, no goal kicks in the match, Wests looked a more physically developed side, number 8 and number 10 for Wests were very impressive constantly punching holes in the Hull KR defense, 3 or 4 Hull players went off injured as result of trying to tackle the bigger players. There were a few good tries scored by Wests.

just been informed we only had 15 fit players and they had 27 - so I think they did good!

From my understanding they played the Wests Tigers U20's squad. So might explain the size difference

Awful selective memory. If you recall, Dyer was a very good signing for us. Our top try scorer in that first super league season.