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Bernard Woolley: What if the Prime Minister insists we help them? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Then we follow the four-stage strategy. Bernard Woolley: What's that? Sir Richard Wharton: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. Sir Richard Wharton: In stage one we say nothing is going to...

Perhaps more pertinent is excuse number 1 Anthony Blunt That there is a perfectly satisfactory explanation for everything, but security forbids its disclosure

The Vindictam version of events has been in circulation since before I joined the thread. I am not in a position to refute it but it is again hearsay and rumour. The good news is we now have rules and a scoring system to measure this. But like the allowable number of GPS sports scholarships at...

The period between the Grand Final and the first Sheffield Shield game has historically been a strange and difficult time

Again, a post full of supposition and hearsay. As usual plenty to say and I hope you didn't wear yourself out thinking of one reason. Try a bit harder, there are a lot more possibilities. I am not defending anyone, especially since I do not have any facts (and lets face it I am not Robinson...

Moral vacuum? I am sorry "I don't like to think" but courage and integrity involves confronting the truth each and every time, not just when it suits you or you have figured that your mates outnumber theirs. Which pretty much applies to the liker who has completely lost the plot. As I said I...

I am interested to see just how easily all of the XV stars are going to adapt to 7s in an Olympic Year. How will it be managed as there will probably be a need for a significant number of players to take time out from Super Rugby. It will be interesting to see if a real power athlete like SBW...

With due deference to The Runner we are back to my first post. An organisation cannot claim the high moral ground just because they decide a couple of members have drifted lower than anyone else. As the ban proponents keep saying the rules are black & white and the AAGPS has squibbed on its...

IS: Only some? Only the ones I know about. So I suppose on a random sampling basis maybe every rumour on here is BS. Which ones? I am not going to feed the flames, the listing and naming of boys in this thread for the purposes of speculation and innuendo is not appropriate in my view. But the...

Also unfit to sit the HSC next week. Correction to ambiguous post. What is done for the future of rugby is independent from what the schools do, vice versa etc etc

Transparency is the key. Without it rumour trumps fact and no one is accountable. My interest here was sparked by a bloke I played rugby with. For those interested I am a GPS old boy with one son who attended the same school, one at another GPS school (no, before anyone asks, no scholarship...

Given my newly minted status of "lawyer" I now feel qualified to answer that question. "Ultra" is really a marketing power word so that whether good or bad "vires" would certainly outrank "baric" I think. That's the beauty of a legal qualification, you are technically able to answer any...

Lets face it, the moderators may even delete this string. Surely we are infringing site rules here. Ultra vires or something like that.

Does not seem to make sense. The 2nd XI was 3rd on 9 points (5 and 7 points adrift from leaders) and docked 3 points to 7th place. Hardly the stuff of scholarship infringements. Playing a suspended player, ineligible player (>19), 12 players on the field. I could go on and on until I thought of...

Let us all sincerely hope that probably the most frustrating feature of the Deans era has left with him. The sensational gutsy win in the backs to the wall, point of giving up on the Wallabies forever moment, immediately followed by some more dismal losses.

Easier than we all thought. Under all the circumstances a great win in Argentina especially given their performances against SA and NZ at home. The hows and whys of such a comprehensive win must surely keep us occupied for a couple of days. Still do not understand the mysterious complexities...

Even for an illiterate Philistine like myself this is a shade too far away from the concept of a rounded education. Although I do note that the Periodic Table test appears to be a very effective filter on the sample group.

Lets reconvene next Monday, we should all be much wiser.

On one hand Stan is right, lets get past the crap and on to solutions. On the other hand he is a little disingenuous; there have been a couple of solutions put forward. On the 3rd hand (not normally considered a realistic alternative but since Stan only has one nut) how would a solution to...

Not to mention the fingers hovering over the "All grounds closed" button at the first sign of rain