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As rugby league fans across the country eagerly await the NRL’s return, Zero Tackle has taken a trip down the junior pathways and examined the talent of the next generation, who are set to be the future of the competition over the coming years.<\/p>\n
While an Under-18s Australian Schoolboys team is named annually,\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0will be naming the best players from each age group who are set to be watched closely in the near future.<\/p>\n
Looking at the best prospects in the Under-18s age bracket, only eight players who are listed were named in this year’s Under-18s Australian Schoolboys squad, with many missing the Under-18s ASSRL National Championships due to injury or other commitments.<\/p>\n
This includes future Sydney Roosters<\/a> fullback Rex Bassingthwaighte<\/a>, Wests Tiger debutant centre Heamasi Makasini<\/a> and the halves pairing of Onitoni Large<\/a> and Lincoln Fletcher who are set to turn heads in the coming years.<\/p>\n Under-18s Best 17 (born in 2007)<\/p>\n 1. Rex Bassingthwaighte<\/a> (Sydney Roosters<\/a>) Interchange Reserves
2. Toby Winter (Newcastle Knights<\/a>)
3. Heamasi Makasini<\/a> (Wests Tigers<\/a>)
4. Dayne Jennings<\/a> (South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>)
5. Antonio Verhoeven (Brisbane Broncos<\/a>)
6. Onitoni Large<\/a> (Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>)
7. Lincoln Fletcher (Parramatta Eels<\/a>)
8. Itula Seve<\/a> (Sydney Roosters<\/a>)
9. Cody Hill (South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>)
10. Jackson Koina (Parramatta Eels<\/a>)
11. Darcy Smith (Sydney Roosters<\/a>)
12. Phoenix Godinet (Wests Tigers<\/a>)
13. Thomas Dellow (Cronulla Sharks<\/a>)<\/p>\n
14. Cameron Bamblett (Parramatta Eels<\/a>)
15. Jared Horne (Brisbane Broncos<\/a>)
16. Ryda Talagi (Parramatta Eels<\/a>)
17. Brian Pouniu (The Dolphins<\/a>)<\/p>\n
18. Callum Grantham (Cronulla Sharks<\/a>)
19. David Bryenton (Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>)
20. Lui Lee (Sydney Roosters<\/a>)<\/p>\n
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