Who will make up the annual Booze Boys team?

 

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By Mr Sports, 24 Apr 2009 Mr Sports is a Roar Pro

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As the rugby league representative season draws closer, there is mounting speculation as to the make up of this season’s famed Booze Boys team.

Several players have put their hands up in spectacular fashion for the NRL Sponsors Thirteen which is chosen every year during the representative season.

The team is made up of those players who have demonstrated the best ability to use the products on offer from some of the NRL’s key sponsors, such as VB and Bundy Rum.

Of course, several incumbent players were certainties before the season even begun. Players like Wes Naqima, and Brett Seymour were always going to be first picked in the team.

However, this year it has been the improvement of young players like Jamal Idris, Masada Iosefa and Trevour Thurling, along with Ben Barba and especially Arana Taumata, that has been most pleasing to selectors.

The selectors also made it clear that in the same way that the New Zealand Rugby League is happy to select Super League based players, the NRL Sponsors Thirteen would draw on several overseas or otherwise out NRL players.

To ignore the claims of quality booze handlers such as Tim Smith, Greg Bird and Todd Carney would rob the Booze Boys of several of their best.

A crisis was avoided, though, when news of Brett Stewart’s ankle injury filtered through.

With Stewart now eligible for the Sponsors Thirteen, many experts foresaw a standoff with the ARL the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Mark Gasnier used his Telstra mobile phone, along with a dozen or so of Bundaberg’s finest, to work up the courage to leave graphic sexual messages on a young lady’s phone.

However, with Stewart ruled out through injury, the Sponsors Thirteen will need to rely on Bronx Goodwin to play at fullback.

NRL Chief Executive, ‘Some Guy in a Suit’, said that he was delighted with the performance of the younger players and insisted that much of the success in getting players on the booze earlier in life could be put down to the new under 20s competition.

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