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What is it you would love to know? Most of the names in your opening paragraph prove my point. It reads like a Pacific Islands team. There is no doubt eddies have benefited greatly from Queanbeyan, it is just a little dubious over whether or not many of them were full fee paying students. My...

Would not suprise me but it seems they have cleaned up their act a bit now. The entire XV are no longer of Islander extraction from Queanbeyan and some dont even make the ACT schools side...wow.

Yes, agreed on all counts. Eddies have cleaned up their act thank god which can only be good for the junior rugby as a whole. As for Vikings, they dont care who they tread on and I only hope that their schute shield dreams remain that. Poor old Royals are struggling their backsides off and I bet...

Seems funny that an argument is been held between an Eddies supporter and a Vikings supporter over who has the moral high ground in regards to 'opening the cheque book' and wiping out the opposition unfairly. Both are guilty as sin really. Eddies are less obvious and do so under the guise of a...

Does anybody know if Tyler Stevens is returning to Canberra. I read somewhere he was leaving Parramatta but it did not say where too? I hope this is on the topic enough for those who were so greatly disturbed.....

Guys, I dont know alot about ISA. I have noticed that St Augustines have been quite dominant for a few years, do they have kids of any kind of scholarships or some thing similar or do they play with the cattle they get?

I will take your word about club land being a universal term. As far as peaks and troughs and all that kind of thing I agree with you. My criticism is not leveled at the players in the ACT comp and their personal levels of success but simply at organisations such as the Brumbies who have treated...

Thanks Prodigy. I wont be in Sydney until mid April at the earliest. I will see how things pan out and give you a shout a bit close to then.

Does anybody know if Tom Cusack from the ACT is playing in Sydney this year?

I wouldnt agree that there ever were scouting channels from the Waratah shield. The best players from schools like these and the clubs went and played locally in the club scene and if they were good enough they progressed from there. Some went to Sydney from school but the majority stayed in...

Does anybody have any tips on who may win the ACTJRU U18 comp in 2012? Will there by any players who will push for selection in the Australian Schools side?

Hey guys, I am moving to Sydney soon and will be based around the Hills area. Can anyone recommend Hills subbies rugby club? If not any other good subbies clubs nearby that may be looking for a broken down second rower after a social run?

Not sure about that. The ASC comp was harder than the Waratah shield, thats why ACT teams (Marist and Eddies) always won it. The NSW teams were mostly rubbish except for a handful every year. People go on about the Waratah shield but it wasnt that great a comp. The hardest game was beating...

...on another note, Does anybody know where Tom Cusack from last years Marist 1st XV will be playing his senior rugby at this year?

For those who have doubts about the strength of ACT rugby and its club comp, they are well founded. You only need to look at the slide in standards of ACT rugby from the grassroots levels to see why the quality of players coming through is some what weaker than its rival states. The ACT schools...

Could not agree with you more about schools poaching kids from clubs. Thats is simply wrong and should not happen at all. As far as I know, and I may be wrong, only one school is in this practice and has been since I was at school years ago. Cant see how the school kids will ever get to play for...

Looks like a couple of young fellas playing some hard rugby to me. Lets not all become like referees and cry every time some one shows a little agression. Rugby has already become to much a game designed to keep the mothers on the sideline happy rather than the men who play it.

Can people stop writing this rubbish about merging comps and having tiers etc. What happens, hypothetically, if the two weakest opens schools in tier one are 'relegated' and their u16's are the two strongest sides in that age group. They then have to play in an inferior comp which they will most...

On a different note, I have found this thread very interesting to read. I did not attend a GPS school but have followed the rugby in that competition for a long time as a fan only. I am keen to know if anybody on this thread has any knowledge of what the actual competing schools feel about the...

Stickybeak you are 100% correct in reference to the original members of the AAGPS. Lindommer, reference to publications from Joeys centenary year and a history of St Pats Goulburn confirm this fact. Cooerwull and also Stannies Bathurst were there too bu,t all four schools had short lived lives...