Tweed’s bold strategy
TWEED Heads will run with a bold strategy that they readily acknowledge could count against them in the 2018 Rugby League Gold Coast Agrade competition.
The Seagulls will this season send fringe Intrust Super Cup players to other clubs when not required by Ben Woolf’s state league side.
Jenan Parrish and Siuatonga Likiliki are aligned with Runaway Bay; Beau Cordtz with Southport; and Ali Grant with Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League club Ballina.
While Tweed won’t come up against any of their own tomorrow when they face fellow
ISC club Burleigh, they are prepared for the fact their new approach could bite them.
“Woolfy has said this, we would love to see Beau Cordtz come out for Southport and score three tries against us because that puts everyone on
notice,” said Seagulls chief executive Paul Stephenson.
“We would love to see Jenan come out and be man of the match and cut us open in the middle. He has done a preseason with us and if he is going well, he will get another
opportunity at the next level in Queensland Cup and that is a really good thing for us.”
Stephenson believes there are multiple benefits.
“They are getting a player that is potentially a junior there back to their club to play
A-grade, which should help increase the standard of what they are doing and help increase that relationship with us and them as well,” he said.
“For our A-grade side it potentially selfishly gives them a little bit more consistency. And it also keeps all of those guys on their toes as well – they know that they are not only competing against the guys in their side to make Queensland Cup, they are competing against guys all over the competition.”