There are plenty of new faces as Southern Inland look to take a youthful approach to a revamped representative contest.
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There are only six players from last year’s successful representative team selected to tackle a combined a Monaro/South Coast in Canberra on June 4.
Coach Richard Skellern believes the team shows how much young talent there is in the region.
“There is a lot of depth in this zone and a lot of good talent and some players were very unlucky to miss out,” Skellern said.
“I think it is a well rounded side and we have a real classy team, especially in our back line.
“It is going to be very slick and we have a really mobile, hard forward pack who can get the job done and get the ball to the backs.”
Among the more inexperienced members of the team to be given an opportunity are Ag College prop Jack McIntosh, Waratahs halfback Tom Hallam and Albury’s Roussoux Visser.
Undefeated ladder leaders Leeton lead the team with eight of the 24 players selected.
Seven of the eight teams are represented with only CSU not having a member in the team.
Tom Boyle (Albury), Dan Dowson (Tumut) and Cam Duffy (Ag College) were named as shadows.
Skellern will hold a training run at 10.30am on Sunday.
In a change from the usual three-day format, South Coast and Monaro will combine to tackle Southern Inland.
Skellern expects they joint forces will offer a much bigger challenge.
“We are very wary that they will be a lot stronger than what they have been in the past few years,” he said.
“We just have to maintain that good form from last year with the new faces.”
From there a Brumbies Provinical team will be selected to play NSW Cockatoos the following Saturday.
There is general byes for both representative clashes.
SIRU REP TEAM: Jack McIntosh, Tom Macleay, Mike Van Diggelen, (Ag College), Austin Wallace, Harry Hosegood, Tom Hallam, Xavier Chigwidden (Waratahs), Roussoux Visser, James Devlin (Albury), Nathan Seymour, Stu Dyer (Wagga City) Chris Latu , Andrew Madden (Griffith), Moses Waqa, Sai Ratudradra, Joe Kafoa-Pene, Simon Vunilagi, Noa Rabici, Siti Watkins, Joe Ratu, Nathan Batina (Leeton), Angus Forster, Tom Mouat, Josef Glamuzina (Tumut)