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Yes I’m aware of the high numbers of 17 year olds in year 11 , all schools do. More than half of Terrace’s First XV match day 23 are in year 11. Likewise there are a lot of 16 year olds in year 10. The age group is split over two years, but ne t year will make up a fair whack of your open age...

What would really concern me is only having two U16 teams this year , doesn’t fair well for next year in terms of depth.

GT over BBC today for the first time since 2016 . Gutsy win after being down 14-0.

Matt Lodge starting for the Roosters tonight , his rugby experience didn’t last long .

^ he certainly seems to have a talent for it. ;)

Same with Terrace , the fields at Tennyson were closed for all of term 2 and only opened for the first time last weekend due to what came out of the river after the Feb floods. There's some decontamination process that they go through , don't think it would be a quick process.

People in charge of recruitment and future employment opportunities that don’t give a toss about rugby yet alone whether you played in a dominant First XV. ( I’m assuming that was a question? ) Even though this is a GPS Rugby thread , the GPS Association is more than just rugby. What you don’t...

I won't comment on the last paragraph of your post, but this part explains what people are asking. Having a strong number of Colts feed through onto grades is indeed a rebuild, from memory the Colts 1 & 2 got the chocolates in 2019 and no doubt now feature in both 1st and 2nd Grade squads...

You’ve certainly jumped to RA’s defence in many threads. Can you explain “funding inequality “ as it stands ?

Don’t say that to the Aucklanders who couldn’t even leave home to drive to the KFC drive through, that even made the news here. No point arguing who has the tougher time with Covid lockdowns, point is we are well below their level now and three years ago we weren’t.

Don’t think NZ had many games during Covid , if anything their lockdowns were harsher than ours. In 2019 the Junior Wallabies won the Oceania U20’s comp and but for some inaccurate goal kicking in the final should have won the U20’s RWC. Also that year our U18’s beat the NZ U18’s for the...

Would like the idea of a “deliberate knock on” to take into consideration whether you were trying to catch the ball or not , not whether you were a chance of regathering after the initial contact. Hands up in an attempt and the force of the attempt at he ball are not that hard to see. For me...

Using those criteria you would unfortunately struggle to fill a Wallabies’ backline, but I agree with the intent. We struggle to find even a 10 that can kick long…..

Grealy and Thomas have hardly had any footy this year , same for Ripley. The QPR started late this year, round 1 was after the Easter long weekend. Since the start of QPR the Reds have had issues with injuries and a lot of squad players were held back from playing club footy as injury cover...

They are chosen from within Academies, not one player without at least an academy contract. Last year’s squad had two players that weren’t signed. They don’t seem to look beyond what has been chosen for them. Does anyone else even get a look? We unfortunately have placed too low a priority on...

and next to no media on it , it’s almost invisible, very strange indeed!

20-10 Nudgee over Terrace , not the one way traffic of the first trial.

Easts’ forward pack looks like the real deal with an all Super Rugby front row. Can the backline bring it home?

Yeah agree , think Nudgee would have to be having a very bad day to drop a game this year.

^ the U20’s pathway sadly seems to be way down the priorities for RA. No National U20 comp or NRC leaves a big hole. Meanwhile over in Europe they are kicking off an U20’s Summer Series after having only finished the Six Nations U20’s about 8 weeks ago. NZ feeds their U20’s into the NPC which...