Onitoni Large

[JenEagle]

My Tigers mates are saying he is 10 times the player latu fainu is

 

[silvereagle]

He must be good as there isn't one old fart comment saying "sheesh, yet another tigers signing" or [insert something about union here].

lol.

Go Manly!!!!

I object to the word "old"!!!

 

[globaleagle]

I object to the word "old"!!!

sigh.... don't we all!

haha..wah

 

[The Who]

I'm sure I've seen a similar highlights package from schoolboy rugby a few years ago that had us excited....
Tom Wright anybody?

 

[manly al]

I'm sure I've seen a similar highlights package from schoolboy rugby a few years ago that had us excited....
Tom Wright anybody?

Tom Wright seemed more of an outside back - full back type player where this lad has presumably or is being groomed as a future half or 6 .
Looks like a very quick and elusive runner , lets see how he goes in the other halves playing requirements as the competition steps up a level or three .
Joey Walsh from some reports , probably a natural play making half already . maybe Onitoni could end up as a Manly 6 but if he is more then capable of playing in both positions , could only be a good thing

 

[frank stokes]

I'm sure I've seen a similar highlights package from schoolboy rugby a few years ago that had us excited....
Tom Wright anybody?

He may be a superstar but as you (rightly) point out there is a lot of water to flow between here and there...

Tom, Josh, Latu, Manase etc etc

In the words of the great Emilio Estevez... "Tis many a slip twixt the cup and the lip"

 

[The Who]

I keep reading that Wests are producing all these 'superstar' juniors.
Didn't they come last in all the junior rep competitions this season?

 

[Adz]

I keep reading that Wests are producing all these 'superstar' juniors.
Didn't they come last in all the junior rep competitions this season?

The tigers came last in the NRL,but I would take Galvin,Fainu,Koroisau,Pole or Utoikamanu and Bula.

 

[Adz]

I'm sure I've seen a similar highlights package from schoolboy rugby a few years ago that had us excited....
Tom Wright anybody?

I think the main difference is that Wright never had a grounding in league,someone like Large has been playing league as a junior.

 

[Phobia]

I keep reading that Wests are producing all these 'superstar' juniors.
Didn't they come last in all the junior rep competitions this season?

The only team to make the finals, was the one Large was playing in, and they lost the GF of that comp. Harold Matt's Magpies iirc.

 

[maxta]

The younger brother Ashton is a lightning 9 who is perfect in the modern game....similar to Fainu with also plenty of tenacity in style, but quicker....actually plays up a year at rep level and a good chance to be at Manly by 2026.

 

[The Who]

Just to clarify Wests Tigers' junior successes/failures this season:
Last: NSW Cup, SG Ball, Harrold Matthews
7th: Jersey Flegg

 

[Phobia]

Just to clarify Wests Tigers' junior successes/failures this season:
Last: NSW Cup, SG Ball, Harrold Matthews
7th: Jersey Flegg

Must note that they have both a Tigers and a Magpies in Harold Matt's. Both Larges played for the Magpies, with Ashton playing in the GF.

 

[Tragic Eagle]

You have to plant the seeds. Sometimes you reap rewards and sometimes you don’t.

 

[Bearfax]

Certainly has good skills. Fast, excellent step and swerve off both feet, strong on his feet and doesn't easily succumb to a tackle, good distribution skills, good defense. Looks a very likely prosect. Hope Manly handles him well.

 

[Nambawan]

Certainly has good skills. Fast, excellent step and swerve off both feet, strong on his feet and doesn't easily succumb to a tackle, good distribution skills, good defense. Looks a very likely prosect. Hope Manly handles him well.

Certainly looks to be a "good'un". Has the size to perhaps fit in at centre or full-back. One proviso about those videos - the defences involved were very poor.

 

[double hoops]

Manly supporters sure are keen for a couple of signings. Something. Anything.

 

[The Wheel]

Manly supporters sure are keen for a couple of signings. Something. Anything.

I don’t expect any announcements till after the GF - need to fill the long off season with content somehow

 

[mickqld]

Looks promising but Schuster was the next big superstar too. Let's hope the kid is switched on mentally to handle the rigors of nrl.

 

[Rocky]

This is a big coup isnt it?

The club must be doing something right to beat out so many others to his signature.

I forget who it was but wasn't there a poster on here saying they had a contact in the juniors, and no one wanted to come to Manly?

This flies right in the face of that.