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Absolutely giving time but EOYT 2014 will be the last chance for a change if the slide is not reversed. I absolutely hope for his success, otherwise we will have seen a generation of players not reach their potential. However Caravan McKenzie has been rolling for sometime asking much the same...

Absolutely agree Froggy, I tried to post something earlier but it got mucked up I think (or deleted?). I remember the first game; clearly under instructions not to kick the backs looked lost, unable to decide who to pass to or which lines to run. From there the improvements were obvious each...

I am also in the hunch territory, just down in the uneducated sector. As far as the coaches go my recollection is that one criticism of Deans was that he preferred to be a one man band and preferred coaches less likely to question his course. As a response after 2011 RWC he was more or less...

I do not think the loss makes a lot of difference to the relative ranking and we are still 4. Well not me, I suspect complex mathematics at work: http://www.lassen.co.nz/pagmisc.php#hrh Really not sure about this though. I thought I had it nailed some years ago and it was easier than this...

Seriously. There's a game plan?

In relation to the governance at Scots it could be that the Principal is executing an approved strategy with appropriate internal monitoring and reporting. Otherwise you would hope that the Council is now fully briefed by Dr Lambert and has been very actively involved in the appointment of the...

Which is my point FSR, Dr Lambert will now very publicly need to make his case to fee paying parents. It would be much better for all concerned if the full merits could be discussed which will still be clouded in rhetoric (Hawkes' term: SMH) around the relative importance of sporting based...

Glory me, I was thinking the left nut was just a ratbag. Turns out he could be correct and that this string is really all about the handful of kids who could not make the 1sts and their difficulty in coping. Not to mention the fact that their parents keep on and on about it because lets face it...

Hi, just writing from a parallel world over here. We are suffering from injuries in 2013? Poor old Robbie could not use it as an excuse in 2012 Brumbies not up to S15 form? A team superbly executing a tight game plan since discredited by the ARU and certainly not aligned to the "expansive"...

The Scots thing will now play out and we should all move on and wait for the outcome. IS, you neatly summarise the two issues provided that the reference to "institutions" includes all of the GPS schools. It is their association, they will need to sort out how it should work. As you say 0=zero...

Transparency is so much easier to enforce than regulation. Suggestion 3 is so easy to implement that it should be compulsory (despite the apparent contradiction) I disagree with 1 and 2 though. Each school has to be accountable and responsible for its own destiny. Accountability is important...

At the risk of saying nothing new we now need to move into the 21st Century. Many other quaint elite Public School propositions have thankfully passed on as the distinction between Gentlemen and Professionals fades and it is no longer a requirement that an Amateur captain the English Cricket...

This is another interesting way of looking at the situation. Still more grist for the circular mill. How does one interpret the following scenarios: Scots 1st X / Scots 1st XV Scots 1st X / GPS Athletics Scots 1st X / Scots 3rd XV Scots 1st X / nothing Under this theory we might think that...

Fermat obviously would not be able to solve this complicated equation. With Tim Hawkes' fearless contribution this week the major problem is clearly the lack of credibility of the AAGPS. They have been happy to have a sanitised and purified code of practice regarding sports scholarships (has...

I think some progress has now been made. After reviewing posts it seems there is fairly strong agreement that the problem maybe ameliorated (its great we have spell check on these sites) by replacing musical scholarships with rugby scholarships.

Good point Quick hands, I suppose affordability depends on currency. Is sporting talent legal tender? In large part some of the cost is borne by other school stakeholders be it churches, old boys, paying parents, benefactors etc. Therefore if the GPS attempts to regulate this and drives it...

An additional amount of resource and some more recognition goes a long way and no doubt this is what the drafters of the rules had in mind. Taking at face value the commentary on Kings and the value of building sustainable structures from the ground up is demonstrated. Short cuts do not ever...

See, I told you this thread is circular. I am back to where I started, this is really complex and Qld might appear to have put as much effort into their pro scholarship rules as AAGPS did in theirs. The schools need to put the effort in to find a comprehensive answer that everyone has to...

Certainly the event itself is major news, but only a predictable outcome. In a way the active existence of the forum recording both disagreement with the rules in the first place and the alleged stretching/breaking of the rules by various schools meant that some scandal was brewing. Somewhere...

Thanks Hugh although I do point out that there are a lot of pages and that the means of trawling from 1 -129 is not easy. You are a patient and persistent contributor and I can see why you note that little is new. Irrespective of how many posts I may or may not have read the point remains that...