Jets keen on Kumuls

THE Ipswich Jets hope to recruit two members of the Papua New Guinea Kumuls team currently training in Ipswich.
Jets chief executive Brad Wolens said he wanted to draft two to three members of the Kumuls into the Jets club for next season.
Other Ipswich rugby league clubs will also be scouting the Kumuls for potential players at tomorrow’s trial match between the Kumuls and the Ipswich Centennial XIII.
Wolens said after watching the Kumuls train this week he was convinced some of their players could excel in the Queensland Cup.
“I’ll see how they go this Saturday (tomorrow) against the Ipswich team but I think there’s some great talent there,” he said.
“I would love to have a couple of guys stay on here and play for us next season.
“The Kumuls’ body shape is naturally so muscular and suited to rugby league and they don’t even do proper weight training.
“You can only imagine what they could become if you put them in a professional set-up.”
The man who did the majority of organising to get the Papua New Guinea team to Ipswich, Sun Engineering director Mark McMonagle, backed the ability of the Kumuls players.
“I have watched these guys for a while now and I know they have the ability,” McMonagle said.
Ipswich Jets FOGS Cup player Desmond Mok is a member of the Kumuls squad, while former Jets regular Trevor Exton also played for PNG.
Ipswich rugby league operations manager Brendan Rose said he had alerted the local clubs to the potential brilliance of some of the Kumuls squad after seeing them in an opposed session at North Ipswich Reserve.
“Our clubs will definitely be interested in some of the players but there’s obviously a balance,” Rose said.