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In the past and from what I have heard for this year, towards the end of July early August a squad of around 110 players give or take is announced. Over three successive weekends in August they do some training and play some trial games on the Sunday morning. Gradually they pare back the list...

Less than one third of those players from last years u16 QLD teams played Open Schoolboys this year. There may be a story in that itself (none that I am aware of, just that the stat seems unusual). So it was not a like for like comparison against past performances. I am curious to know how...

Almost agree with you on all of the above Eagles. To add to that, tournament rugby can also throw up some wobblies from time to time. I also think it is difficult to pick on current performance when the GPS teams are still yet to play any competition matches. Saying that, the selectors saw...

That's no fool. Just a Queenslander doing his patriotic duty with the rallying call every person born north of the Tweed knows and loves :p

Bugger!!! Have to disagree that NSW I v NSW II is as good as it gets, but I hope it is a great final. There is a lot to play for. Some high scoring games, no doubt some great rugby for the spectators. There will be some hand wringing in the QLD quarters. But that happens from time to...

I think the selfishness is also an ingrained habit developed from a very young age where as juniors the players were the "stars" of the competition. Because they were playing against kids who were not physically developed or talented, you often saw the game plan (intentional or not) was to get...

Hugh Jarse, the most difficult part of making a prediction is that I have seen nothing of the NSW players, so I would be a fool to come out and say one team is going to smash another team. So, I can only look at history and some knowledge of the QLD teams’ players form to provide an answer to...

I am getting some text messages from people at the tournament as follows MONDAY 1st JULY 1015 Game 1: Div 1 – NSW II v VIC First Field - unknown 1130 Game 2: Div 1 – QLD II v CS First Field - QLD II win 31 to 17 1300 Game 3: Div 1 – QLD I v ACT First Field - QLD 1 currently giving ACT a...

Comes down to a big scrum!!!!

He is having a bit of a sleep in the middle of the field after a couple of late nights this week. Sometimes he wakes up but forgets that he has some good attacking players outside him and gets caught taking on the Lions by himself.

We just let them off the hook every time with crap mistakes. C'mon, hold the bloody ball.

Intensity stepped up in second half. Why are we so bad under the high ball????

That's a couple of poor errors by JOC (James O'Connor) now. Not just that, too much dropped ball all round and too many bloody scrum penalties

I believe it is because NSW Secondary School is for six years (yr 7 to 12) and QLD Secondary School is for five years (yrs 8 to 12). Each State has seven years of primary NSW has Kindergarten to yr 6 and Qld has Yr 1 to Yr 7. This is why the age difference at the Open End of Schoolboys...

Support what you are saying LG. I do not believe there is genuine bias according to state. I believe there is a natural bias towards age. Unfortunately for QLD they are at a disadvantage where the starting age / length of schooling is different and the Year 12 average age is around 16.5...

Just confirmed that George Partridge is the son of a former Australian Schoolboy, Stephen Partridge. He also played a couple of games for QLD in late 80's early 90's at fullback and was a stalwart at Brothers. From what I saw of George in the GPS and Qld trials was speed to burn. Probably...

Congrats to the 11 Queenslanders selected for combined states. Not unheard of for players from this team being selected for Aust schoolboys.

Looks like the call up was for Conrad Quick's position.

Just had a good look at the teams. Congratulations to all the young men who were selected and remember that it is the Australian Schoolboy Rugby Union title that you are now fighting for. Just a couple of random observations / questions looking at the make up of the teams:- Congrats to IGS...

3. Genia 2. Folau 1. Mowen