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Message: [QUOTE="Unbreakable, post: 2901611, member: 8290"] [URL]https://www.broncos.com.au/news/2018/01/03/broncos-best-ever-nyc-team---lock/[/URL] He started his career at the prop but has turned himself into one of the best locks in the game. Josh McGuire demonstrated how successful his move from the front to the back of the scrum was by representing his national team in the position this year. That is also why he has been named at lock in the Broncos’ best team of 10 years in the National Youth Competition. It has been a difficult team to select with the Broncos having some great players that have moved through this competition since its inception in 2008. But for argument’s sake – and with the competition going back to State League level in 2018 - the team was chosen based on what the player did not only as an NYC competitor, but also what they have done in the NRL and in senior representative football. McGuire was tearing it up in another sport when the Broncos first spotted him in his mid-teens. The future NRL hard man was making his name as a fierce body checker in a Brisbane roller hockey league, where he would routinely take on men. He would form a front row partnership in the first year of the NYC in 2008 with Andrew McCullough and Mitchell Dodds. The trio would play in the NYC Grand Final that year, a feat they would repeat at NRL level in 2015. McGuire would make his NRL debut the next year at age 19. He would play for his mother’s country of heritage, Samoa, and also represented the Australia Prime Minister’s XIII before finally getting his big representative break in 2015. That was for Queensland in the State of Origin series when he played his first of eight matches in the Maroon. He debuted for the Kangaroos in 2016, and this year established himself as the country’s best lock when he started at number 13 for the Kangaroos in their victorious World Cup Final. [/QUOTE]

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