Recent content by fortheloveofthegame

as much as i hate the idea i suspect you are right, the AAGPS as we know it is near the end of it’s useful life. perhaps an association conference followed by playoffs with a longer season for elite level players is inevitable. i don’t know where that leaves the d or e grade player who is the...

I’m sad to say Newington won’t play Joeys in 13A or 15A fixtures this weekend. The start off the slippery slope or a blip?

full body launched, both feet off the ground, shoulder direct to the head, nothing to debate about this particular hit and absolutely zero mitigation.

The AAGPS has a problem if it lets the events go unsanctioned. There are thousands of witnesses and very clear footage to the event where the Joeys winger had his head taken off. A senior Super Rugby official told me that in the professional game there would have been a minimum 4 week penalty. the...

as a Joeys old boy i think it is embarrassing that it happened at all, no qualification, no excuses.

Shore only repeat seasons like last year every 50 years or so.

They 100% should play, the pathways managers justify it by saying it is about load management. The U20’s game versus South Africa recently tells you how load management is going. The African players are mostly playing full time in europe vs our approach, a warm up tournament and a few managed...

I agree 100% with recent posts, Waratahs pathways management is conflicted, corrupt and clueless. The PONI is a horse named Mediocrity, a broken down nag rested for the Hay picnic races.

Fakaunu will be missed. many oddities about the game. also interesting that the SA coach Kevin Foote was head coach at the Rebels. Australian development dollars at work yet again.

yes they did win some games but the players in this version of the SA team were playing pro rugby in the URC against men at the time. Pathways, Pathways, we stick ours in cotton wool and call them PONIs, they send theirs out to prove themselves against men. These are the results.

more of the brillant Australian pathways system in display. WTFU.

let’s be honest, GPS selections are a horse trading activity. most junior selections are. Look at the Sydney U18 selections this year, very wrong and the results they achieved demonstrate that.

that kind of proves the point, incumbency / form is the Australian way.

seriously, poor excuse. the GPS could have picked a team to win but picking on rep rather than form is a sad Australian rugby tradition.

fixing it is easy. kill the incumbency / PONI pathways, compete for you spot every week.