Recent content by Jim Belshaw

Thank you for the regular reports. I have really valued them. TAS really does suffer from lack of game choices. This affects the preseason. TAS seems to start slow and then builds with experience. It also affects all grades below the Firsts. Sometimes only the Firsts and Seconds have access to...

Full scores from the thirds games?

Armidale airport closed by snow today, ditto new england highway. Highway just reopened. Tas fb page had some game photos. Will try to copy and post tomorrow. Tough conditions

Thank you!

Does anybody know the results of the tas v grammar matches? I was going to go but have a bad cold and didn't wish to risk the rain and cold. It started snowing here about 11.30 and has been snowing ever since. Heaviest snow fall in many years. Hope the grammar boys got out OK. They were flying...

It's certainly placed pressure on plc and negs. Both schools came close to closing some years ago because of the combination of demographic and cultural change. Both fought back. They are doing so now with new approaches. My feeling is that both will survive. On tas and boys, coed has increased...

Short comment on the rugby and coed issue. Position will vary between schools. Tas operates in a highly competitive market for both day and boarding. Lacking big wait lists school growth has been slow with spare capacity. Girls have grown without reducing space for boys. Increased girl numbers...

I fear that I would be of little use. While I'm in growing rebellion about metro dominance I struggle to understand pathways let alone access info on individual players. And then there are the girls! And the relationship with club rugby. To try to illustrate the complexity tas struggles to get...

As an aside, it looks as if 4 tas firsts are playing in this derby. Gps 2. Country under 18 1, AICES 1.

Thank you! At the moment I can only report on the games played in armidale but will do that

Again beautiful conditions at tas for the rugby. Cool, sunny with no wind. Tas seconds and iggies 5th played a 12 all draw. As already noted iggies thirds defeated tas firsts 28 to 26 in a very close match. Iggies scored quickly after the start and I thought the tas forwards were going to have...

It turned out to be a really nice day in Armidale. Cool, but no wind and bright sunshine. I went across early hoping to see some other matches only to find that Shore had only sent one team to Armidale. Talking to a mum with a boy in the TAS Firsts, she commented on TAS's continuing difficulties...

Correction 23 14

Tas won 23 26 W

After a warmer autumn, winter has arrived in Armidale. It was -2 in Armidale this morning, felt like -5. Tomorrow should be a little warmer and fine. Joker's description of playing a game in Guyra took me back. The coldest I have been was playing for TAS in Guyra (can't remember whether it was...