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The Newington 16s rugby boys dominated the age group in the athletics and spearheaded the school to the intermediate division premiership.

The NRC in its current format won't happen.

AAGPS Athletics Premiers Opens - Kings Intermediate - Newington Junior - Joeys

This week Newington play Kings in a trial at Kings. I assume all teams will be involved. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the 1st game of schoolboy rugby in Australia between Newington and Kings in 1870. The GPS game at Stanmore was scheduled to be a huge day, but I don't think that...

They don't have to take any active steps to destroy things like the NRC. They only have to sit back and do nothing and let nature take it's course. It's called resistance by intertia. If the people running rugby in Australia have learnt anything from the ARC and NRC it's that Frankenstein...

It's not as hard as it sounds. The concept would be that all clubs and regions directly affiliate to RA. There's just no need for an intermediate bureaucracy in between with all the duplication and childish power plays which it brings. It's a concept which is used elsewhere in the rugby...

We should be trying to depower the role of NSWRU and QRU in Australian rugby, not empower them.

One thing which really impressed me was Norths having the composure and maturity to kick the field goal with 3 minutes left to put them out to more than a converted try. Hopefully it's a sign that the mindless and hopelessly nostalgic idea (and incorrect I might add), that Australian teams must...

Does anyone know if TAS are coming down for the 3rds competition this year? I ask because the two country schools in ISA St Stannies and Kinross aren't coming to Sydney to play this year and are playing games against local clubs instead.

I was talking to a mate of mine who has a boy in the 16s at Grammar and they are optimistic about the current 14s and 15s age groups there in particular. I notice that both of those age groups were As on As and Bs on Bs (without athletes). I think that size would let them down trying to play...

A reasonably enjoyable morning peering through the fence at Weigall. All the games that I saw were evenly matched and I was impressed by the skill level of the Grammar teams. They lack size, but certainly not skill and enthusiasm From what I saw: Newington won the 13s game by about 2 tries...

Frequent mistakes and inconsistent both ways. At least two penalties against us for not releasing when the Norths tackler hadn't rolled away. Fortunately the numerous refereeing errors didn't change the result.

Spent the morning peering through the fence at Weigall at New v Grammar trials this morning, which left the afternoon free. The game was a COVID sellout, so not at the ground but watched on TV. Norths deserved the win. They executed the core skills much better and made far fewer mistakes...

Great afternoon for rugby. Pity we have COVID restrictions because I think there would have been 5-7 thousand at Manly Oval today otherwise.

Schedule for Grammar v Newington at Weigall Weigall 1 G 14B v N 14B 8.15am G 14A v N 14A 9.15am G 16A v N 16B 10.15am G 2nd v N 2nd squad 11.15am G 1st v N 1st squad 12.15pm Weigall 2 G 13A v N 13C 9am G 15B v N 15B 10am G 15A v N 15A 11am NO SPECTATORS. Doubt I'll be able to provide...

Unfortunately your advice doesn't seem to have been heeded.

The way forward is to cut the NSWRU and the QRU right out of the picture. They need to be running community level rugby in their respective states - nothing more. They certainly shouldn't be organising professional rugby teams in a season long competition, that's yesterday's thinking.

Yes Norths v Manly is the TV game :)

Well, almost. I understand that Stannies decided not to make the trip to Sydney so the St Augs v Stannies games at Narrabeen aren't going ahead. I heard though that St Augs have arranged for their 1sts, 2nds and A and B teams to play against Joeys and the rest of their teams are playing...