Tamworth Touch Association junior rep coordinator Ben Wynn discusses junior stars of the future on February 28, 2024.
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00:00 They're fantastic, they're awesome little players and well deserved.
00:05 These particular kids definitely would have selected themselves.
00:09 There's probably a few other kids that would have been selected had they made themselves available.
00:12 It's a pretty big commitment.
00:14 The talent is here, we've got to win kids back from AUSTAG.
00:19 Touch is a heaps better game for them when it comes to making decisions quickly, like halves foot in footy.
00:26 You can see that all of the good footy players, Nico Hine, John Cappenhouse, Tameka Upton, these sorts of players,
00:33 Caitlin Palmer out of our NRL comp, all came through the touch footy pathway.
00:37 Why? Because it's a more challenging game, you have to be making decisions continually.
00:41 It's nowhere near as slow as AUSTAG.
00:43 I think we'll win players back as we have a better competition and that will reflect in the numbers we get selected in the future.
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