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Rugby 13 Federation of Serbia has the honor to announce the official information that Mr. Brian Smith (Brian Smith), a respected Australian rugby league coach, was on an official visit to Serbia and Belgrade. Mr. Smith attended today's training session Serbian national team. Serbian national team prepares for the tour of Australia which will be held from 28th January to 8th February, 2016. The tour was planned in preparation for the qualifications for the World Cup in rugby league to be played in 2017 just in Australia.

Serbia and Brian Smith
Mr. Brian Smith and Rugby 13 Federation of Serbia have concluded an agreement, under which Smith will assume the role of Advisor Coaching Staff of the Serbian national team in the process of preparing and qualifying (October, 2016 against Wales and Italy) for the World Cup in 2017.

Otherwise, the 61-year-old Brian Smith is a former rugby player, who played for Australian clubs St George and Sydney Saut Rabits. Coaching career began in 1978 in Newton Jets. Since 1991 was on the bench to stronger NRL clubs St George from 1991 to 1995 ( St. Georg ) Parramatta Ilsa 1997 to 2006 ( Parramatta ), Newcastle Naits 2007 to 2009 ( Newcastle Knights ) and Sydney Rustersa 2010 to 2012 ( Sydney Roosters ). Also repeatedly led the Super League clubs in England Hal 1988 to 1990 ( Hull FC ) Bretford Bulls in 1996 ( Bradford Bulls ). He is currently the clubs wild cats from Vakenfilda ( Wakefield Wildcats ).

Cable, Ljuba and Smith

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Good stuff. If the likes of Serbia can do this, why do we never see PNG over here or in France?

Money would be my guess. Don't forget that PNG is a third world country but they have some huge multinational corporations making mega bucks from raping and pillaging that country's natural resources who could/should be putting some money into PNG's national sport.

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Money would be my guess. Don't forget that PNG is a third world country but they have some huge multinational corporations making mega bucks from raping and pillaging that country's natural resources who could/should be putting some money into PNG's national sport.

I'd be surprised though if the Serbian team would be getting any kind of sponsorship or funding to take players to Oz, and then they won't be staging income-driving games.

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Good stuff. If the likes of Serbia can do this, why do we never see PNG over here or in France?

 

We could we just choose not to. We could have a precursor to every major international series with a one or two tests against a PNG, Tonga or Fiji. It is done very successfully in cricket where Bangladesh or similar will come over before a series with India.

 

Even if it was break even on crowds it would give England proper planning competition. We got some great crowds last year for the Kiwi tests but the pathetic France at Leigh debacle showed the limit of our ambition. What do you reckon is set up for 2017 in terms of home test matches or have we not thought about that yet?

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Good move appointing Brian Smith in an advisory role. Although it wasn't part of the announcement it wouldn't surprise me if Smith takes charge of Serbia for next year's WC qualifiers, a la McDermott for the USA.

 

To have a realistic chance of qualifying Serbia do need to utilise some heritage players, and this is probably where Smith can really input and influence. The NRL players named above would make a huge difference to their chances, and almost certainly there are more quality heritage players playing at lower levels but who would add to the team. For me, seven or eight is an ideal number.

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We could we just choose not to. We could have a precursor to every major international series with a one or two tests against a PNG, Tonga or Fiji. It is done very successfully in cricket where Bangladesh or similar will come over before a series with India.

 

Even if it was break even on crowds it would give England proper planning competition. We got some great crowds last year for the Kiwi tests but the pathetic France at Leigh debacle showed the limit of our ambition. What do you reckon is set up for 2017 in terms of home test matches or have we not thought about that yet?

Based on the fact that we went into the last 4N with no warmups and not a single game in the UK, I expect that we will go with the same approach in 2017!

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Based on the fact that we went into the last 4N with no warmups and not a single game in the UK, I expect that we will go with the same approach in 2017!

 

This obviously involves no organisation so you are probably on the money there.

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Cable, Ljuba and Smith to all of you guys. Great to hear, Serbia have done some fantastic work, if they got to the WC they'd actually have something to build on. Anyone know if Nedeljkovic managed to get over for that second trial with Warrington in the end?

Unfortunately, Stefan wasn't able to find accommodation to get over to Warrington. Also, with Serbia not being in the EU he would have been too expensive for them to sign on a contract... Very disappointing for the future because Serbia has some extremely talented players that are going to get stuck in Serbia. Something needs to be done to get these players over to England/EU. 

 

We were also close to getting 4 boys aged 16-18 to Salford, but similar issues prevented this happening. I'm constantly working hard at getting boys over to England, but constantly failing... 

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Unfortunately, Stefan wasn't able to find accommodation to get over to Warrington. Also, with Serbia not being in the EU he would have been too expensive for them to sign on a contract... Very disappointing for the future because Serbia has some extremely talented players that are going to get stuck in Serbia. Something needs to be done to get these players over to England/EU. 

 

We were also close to getting 4 boys aged 16-18 to Salford, but similar issues prevented this happening. I'm constantly working hard at getting boys over to England, but constantly failing... 

 

That is shockingly disappointing and no doubt utterly frustrating for you and Serbia. Do the RLEF or RFL provide you with any support or is it left to the English clubs to sort out?

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Unfortunately, Stefan wasn't able to find accommodation to get over to Warrington. Also, with Serbia not being in the EU he would have been too expensive for them to sign on a contract... Very disappointing for the future because Serbia has some extremely talented players that are going to get stuck in Serbia. Something needs to be done to get these players over to England/EU. 

 

We were also close to getting 4 boys aged 16-18 to Salford, but similar issues prevented this happening. I'm constantly working hard at getting boys over to England, but constantly failing... 

 

That's a real shame. Big props for the effort though and good luck for the future.

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A tight program representation in Australia

December 2, 2016 Admin Team 0
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The arrival of Brian Srmita in Belgrade and Serbia effectively marked the beginning of the final stage of preparing senior team before leaving for Australia. Basically the aim of this tour is a merger, the best players from Serbia with players (Serbian) from Australia. In order to create, what better team to qualify for the World Cup, in 2017. In qualifying, in Group A, Serbia meets with:
◾Wells in Underclothes, 15.10.2016.
◾Italy in Belgrade, 22.10.2016.

The winner of the group will qualify directly for the World Cup. The second-ranked team, has a chance to match the barrage, with the second-place team in the group "B" (Ireland, Russia, Spain) election going to the World Cup. The World Cup will be held at the end of 2017. In Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

Departure to Australia is planned for 26. Jan. Coming to Sydney is the 28th of January and return to Belgrade on the 8th February, 2016. Serbia are taking part in the tournament "Kabramata 9", on Saturday the 30th of January. International, official game, is scheduled for Friday, 5 February, against teams from the Philippines, also in Kabramati. Serbia moves 8 team members, while in Australia waiting 15 players of Serbian descent, of which four players who have already played for the national team of Serbia. These are Hardworking, Sasidharan Dejan Lukenić, Milan Radojevic and Adam Nedic.

1916088_10208165581404799_7105103429315837858_nHiring a skilled professionals such as Brian Smith in professional headquarters of Serbia is a great incentive for all. Surely that is the deal that was made on the first day of this year in Belgrade with Smith has great weight and significantly increases the chance the Eagles success in qualifying for the World Cup in 2017. Otherwise, after training on Friday Brian Smith was pleased with what he saw. He noted that Serbia has a large potential, primarily in physical predispositions. It is clear that the match with Wells, and Italy has a lot of work, to make a dream come true – going to the World Cup in 2017. With the help of Brian Smith and large colonies of Serbian players in Australia, a dream can become a reality.

 

Interesting kit for the 'Wells' match.

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This player Hardworking sounds promising. From the original Serb version, that might be Ilija Radan, who played for Albi in French 2nd Div and Hemel a couple of years back.

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On a slight tangent, interesting announcement from RLIF:

http://www.loverugbyleague.com/news_20507-international-interchanges-drop-from-12-to-10.html

So any player with Yugoslavia on their birth certificate (and one assumes parents and grandparents) can chose which former Yugoslav country to play for. Given there seems a lot of Crotian-background players in the NRL, but no Croatian national team of note, this could allow them to represent Serbia at the World Cup. Obviously a lot of bad blood between those countries, but with a big World Cup due in Oz next year, could prove very tempting?

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