SELECTIONS PROCEDURES FOR THE 2010 WOLFPACK There will be a more detailed note posted on the Gridiron NSW website soon, but here is a quick note on selection for Wolfpack.
A lot of scouting has taken place and candidates have been chosen for Wolfpack based on this season's form. There will be two lists:
A 60 man list of 'A' candidates - these are players that the coaches feel are ready for Wolfpack and capable of making the travelling squad and contributing at the Nationals.
At the same time a second list of 30 'B' players will be announced. This list consists of players who haven't scouted as 'A' candidates but who we want to trial... who maybe haven't shown their best so far in 2009... who don't fit the schemes as well as others.
At the end of January TESTING will take place, then two days of TRIALS of A and B candidates.
After these trials a 60 man TRAIN ON SQUAD will be announced, This will be the squad we take into training, with squad cuts about 5 weeks out from the tournament arriving at the final travelling squad of 48 players. While the bulk of the Wolfpack squad will be made up of 'A' candidates, I believe that there will be a number of 'B' candidates who will put themselves in the frame through their workrate, effort and demonstration of the one thing that we'll be regarding most of all: their football talent.
Candidates should be informed in the next week or so. On this note I also want to stress that contrary to some other suggestions: no player has been told that he is on the squad at this time. Players have only been told that they are being looked at for Wolfpack.
These procedures aim at two things:
1) to make sure that we don't miss a player in our assessments, and
2) to get the BEST SQUAD POSSIBLE TO REPRESENT NSW
Coach D