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For the trainspotters, some fascinating schoolboy trivia in the ASRU tour booklet attached.

Absolutely. #22 Lucas esp was an inspiration when he came in to FH

Aust schools went down fighting to a very good NZ schools by 32-22 having come back to 22 all after the kiwis got out to a 22-5 lead at oranges. Best for aust were #3 Helu who was a handful all day and made some great steals at the breakdown, #8 who got through a mountain of work, #11 Jaffa YJ...

Combined Auckland 10 d NSW Schools 5. Some phenomenal defence by the local boys to shut down a number of promising breaks by NSW. Best for NSW prop Angus Bell, 6 Luca Moretti, 7 Donny Freeman and 10 Jack Walsh. A very physical game with both sides consistently putting bodies on the line in...

Agree re JA talent, but if not big enough and needing age, why pick him? Very tough to say to a schoolboy - hey you were good enough to be selected and had a blinder v Samoa, but now we're in NZ we've just noticed you're not as big as some and decided you need to grow before getting on the team...

Would that make me my own boss (with a team of 1)? Going out on a limb here, but suspect the pay may not be all that flash.

I believe the match on Sat is a 10am (NZ) kickoff, but today was also supposed to be 10am and ended up 30 or so minutes later, so it all seems pretty fluid. Unfortunately, I'm getting it all second hand so can't add a huge amount by way of detailed match reports. It does seem that when they...

NSW Schools u16s 21 d. South Auckland 12 in second match of the tour this morning. They play combined Auckland on Saturday as a curtain raiser to Aust Schoolboys v NZ Schoolboys

They play tmrw and Sat 10am Auckland time against 2 separate Auckland rep teams. No streaming AFAIK but would love to be proved wrong if anyone else knows differently.

Boys moving on from PSSA have the option of club rugby in most areas (not all I grant) and are then eligible to play junior state championships each year starting at u11s. The standard of rugby at club A team level and at the JSC is typically high. Most of the boys playing NSW u16s and school...

NSW Schools u16s 34 d West Auckland 24.

NSW Schools u16s 34 d West Auckland 24.

NSW u16s travel to NZ today with first match v Auckland Rep side tmrw. Photo of squad attached

NSW u16s travel to NZ today with first match v Auckland Rep side tmrw. Photo of squad attached

And presumably it will add a couple of 'formal' matches to the calendar in place of trials if 6 GPS schools & 2 CAS are in the 'A' pool. I guess that means 4 CAS and 3 GPS in the 'B' pool.

I suspect this will be close to the mark

Thx NIS. But do TAS field sufficient teams through all ages to host say Barker? Would they be expecting the other teams to travel to Armidale or do they normally travel to Syd below opens level?

I wonder the "one other" (presumably Shore) feel about dropping back after how many years playing Joeys, View et al.

Great to see a CAS player get this award. Was it announced at the ground or subsequently on eg, NSW schools website?

Some speculation from Rugby Addict back a few weeks ago. Not sure if any of this has been firmed up?: I gather the proposal was for 3 groups of 6 schools something like the following and the match ups make a lot of sense based on numbers and quality: Group 1 (North): Joeys, Knox, Barker...