Recent content by DaSchmooze

The path of least resistance Joker. If I have to play a Saturday sport then let's get it done and dusted and I don't want to spend half a day in the sun.

So... It's a bit quite everywhere with trial news - nothing at GPS or CAS sites and - of course - nothing at the ISA. Does anyone know of who might be playing whom in the limited trial window?

It's going to make the weightings of each school's 1st teams very interesting when calculating who gets put into what division.

Yes you're spot on with the outcome being the formation of ISA and I'd take it a step further and say that without it, you probably wouldn't have seen the development of Greg's, Oakhill and Auggies and it may have spelt the end of Pius. Speculation of course but its unquestionably a good...

Yyyyyyyyyep. And every school has pointed to every other school as the culprit for that one vote. Anyway. It's in the past but living in the aftermath of that vote wasn't fun. I just hope that should it come to pass that if isa has a year or number of years where they dominate that we don't...

This is the great unknown hey. Imagine a scenario where Auggies wins, Oakhill runners up and let's say Stannies (based upon last year's results) come 4th. My big concern is that will be the end of the pragmatism and we'll see a hasty retreat to "pre-war" borders. There are a multitude of...

Yes agreed. Although I suspect when it comes to these teams, all Sports Masters take their GPS/ISA/CAS goggles off and just try and find like for like competition.

yes you'd think so. From C grade onwards it's a bit of a lottery as to who you get. Probably a case of whoever is free that weekend. I know the league tables in ISA stretch down as far as the schools have teams to fill them - sometimes even if it's only two or three.

I suppose that is a sensible approach. You'd hate to have a situation where a particular OPENS cohort that was weak has to duke it out with some heavy hitters because the 13s to 16s are strong.

The more teams included in the calculation, the better the result will be schools that either have depth, quality coaching, or both. If you put all of your eggs into your As (or just 1sts) only then you'd be pushing hard for as few teams as possible to be factored in. It will be very...

From memory, there were a handful of Independent school kids who also accessed this pathway too last year.

The weighting question has been asked a few times but I can't find any info on it either at CAS or ISA. I suspect that if there were weightings, it would have been mentioned in the communications?

Re - CHS. I don't know if they're ever going to get back to where they were. Now that kids can represent SJRU and the Country areas and compete directly with the school associations, I don't see a need for it and I suspect CHS eligible kids are voting with their feet. I'd imagine that the CHS...

Not surprised to hear that there were some hold-outs. Pure speculation of course :)

Agreed and I'm glad they put a stop to it