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I get where you're coming from, but I couldn't disagree with you more. I accept that there are parents who don't get it, and think johnny is a superstar, and he isn't, but the belief that coaching doesn't matter could not be further from the truth. I have seen first hand the development of...

Unfortunately there are plenty of cases where the cream gets curdled because of incompetent coaching and no development program. I would hate to think how much potential gets wasted because boys play in weak divisions or in poorly coached teams and then start bleating because they arent selected...

Fair call CW. The aim of the tournament is not a reward for trialling, or playing club, or playing school, whatever. The National 16's, hosted and mostly funded by the ARU is to have the best players available to play in that tournament. They have no political bias. Obviously if the ARU have...

Agree that Maddux played well in the bog, as does England. McGregor will learn to play in the wet. I have talked to a few of those that have coached him and one of his great attributes as a 10 is that he is an attacking 10 and plays at the line when distributing, and no other 10 in this age...

At this level of rep rugby it is surely about selecting the best available and eligible to play. whether that means players playing up an age group, or others having participated in higher age groups then realigning with their normal age group. I understand the sentiment but rep sport is not...

Kellaway, Jones and Milne unstoppable...pretty much sums it up....NSW shifted the ball wide on every opportunity and they had too much size and speed for wa to handle. Always one of those 3 carving them up, with the other two in support to score. Pretty tough assignment for wa, but to their...

George the Eastern side is generally Views soccer pitch. I hear the " round ballers" have really got their noses out of joint because the rugby boys are ensuring their field is in great shape for when the gps comp kicks off again. Great initiative Riverview.

If this years manly 15's resemble last years team that may explain it. 2012 manly 15's were beaten 103? Nil by Gordon and rightfully deserved 0 to go through. I don't believe Manly had a team in the 16's this year. Manly need to invest a lot of effort into their junior rep program, otherwise...

Well said HJ. The thing about selection is that as boys go higher there are more quality players vying for possibly the one spot, and depending on what the selectors or coaches are specifically looking for in a player will see many excellent rugby players miss out in that instance, and to be...

The 15's are usually announced on the day at the ground, after the last game is played, so the boys probably know but I can't see it on the SJRU website, and the 16's should be announced on Wednesday after schools and Sydney have sorted who gets who.

Congrats to the MWZ boys, they played as a team, and handled the conditions better than the other sides. The Barbarians also deserve mention for finishing second. The idea that the barbarians are the left overs is rubbish. Last year they got 7-8 into Sydney which is well above their numerical...

Selection to higher honours is NOT based where teams finish in the tournaments. Any suggestion that because Ccc or AICES etc finished ahead of isa, will get or deserve to get more boys in, is just not right. Along with schools selectors, the sjru guys were there, along with the ARU HPU guys...

Not sure how that should work with ISA having a 5 all draw with Presidents 1, and AICES getting belted by Presidents 1 by 60 odd to nil...I thought Elia for Isa was outstanding...best rugby from him for a while...also their front rowers were pretty strong also all weekend. If schools don't go...

Agree with IS on that. Trialled the weekend before, and played game 1 in the wet against a very formidable pack, that has a number of the successful Waringah pack playing together. Some of the GPS forwards looked to be more interested in setting up for a run rather than doing the bread and...

That's a great representation for Kings. I got hold of the program from the joeys-view game. Riverview list the teams that all their firsts have played in on the way through the school. According to that they have 5 from the junior school, 6 from year 7, 2 from year 8, 1 from year 10, and one...

Agree on the 9 and 10 issue. The CAS v GPS showed that the CAS 9 and 10 aren't up to it from what I saw. CAS 9 box kicked out on the full on a number of occasions and took a run option when it just wasn't on, the CAS 10 was very lateral, actually facing straight across field when passing...

The Grant & King discussion is pointless. One plays league, the other afl. These boys never seem to make themselves available to be considered along side and or against the best players in the age group. Until they either trial and show their stuff , or actually run and win a GPS 100, the whole...

Agree with unders line, the combination of a strong current year 11 and a weak current year 10 group makes me think they will be lucky to get too many in the 2nd XV let alone the 1sts, except the current year 10 boys in the 2's, being Hancock and Hurley.

Try this link. http://portals.studentnet.edu.au/sports/uploads/DocArchive/DOCARC0003771.htm

The fat that GPS only came together on Sunday showed in a lack of cohesion around the breakdown. That will only get better now they've had a run. A lot of the CAS "go forward" was handed to them by the referee legging them down the park with penalty after penalty, not saying the penalties were...