Bailey played as a winger and said he enjoyed the competition.

“It was good to play a different game of footy at a different level. A lot harder than it is around here,” he said.

Bailey said the team played football and did not get much time to look around Toronto.

“It felt kind of small, but it’s a big place. It had a good ground and a good club that we went to,” he said.

“The place we stayed at, Monavale Sports and Recreation had good facilities, it was a good place. Not so comfortable beds. Bailey said the bed was too short and just not comfortable, and Allen agreed with him.

Allen played front row and said the opposition had been hard and tough to play against.

“We played against Sydney Reds, Presidents and Southern,” he said.

“It was a good opportunity and good experience.”

Campbell played lock and said he thought most of the team got a wake-up call.

“They probably didn’t think it was as hard as it was going to be. It was good down there, good experience,” the lock said. The team did not produce a win, but Campbell said that was probably due to not enough training sessions and players in the side coming from a massive area that included places such as Dubbo, Blayney, Orange, Lithgow and Bathurst as well as Inverell and Tamworth.

Full-back Lazar was the only Tingha Tiger in the team, but joked that he still played well with the Hawks juniors.

“We combined well as a unit,’ Campbell said.

“A massive unit,” Lazar joked, and the boys laughed.

“As a team we went all right, we could have gone better, but you can’t really help that and it was a really good experience to play bigger boys and more talented boys than what we had in our team.”