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Yes, a six week Cup competition to be played alongside existing competitions. It bumps up the First XV season from eight games to 14, not including trials, and allows the more-conservative schools to hold on to their traditional competitions at the same time. It has potential to be extended...

I'm currently working out a competition myself to suggest to schools. I'm limiting competitors to 90 minutes in any direction from Brisbane. Any further is too far. say James Nash High School in Gympie has to travel to Toowoomba Grammar School. It's a 3 and a half hour drive with traffic...

Ipswich Grammar School highlights are up. Josh Sheridan really had a good year! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Brisbane State High's season review video is online here. It's definitely worth the six minutes Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nudgee certainly have fielded Malala in the front line, especially when defending at the set piece. The timing he shows when he shoots to shut down wide attacks was perfect to the millisecond. He's such a brilliant front line defender that if he wasn't so dynamic in counter-attack Nudgee...

Two years in a row the Premiership has been won with mostly full fee-paying players. Nice sign that anyone can win, provided the right imports are added in the right positions. Just spotted a Nudgee First XV player out of school uniform at a cafe in Newfarm for lunch. Surely he's not been...

There were a couple of guys who were genuinely unlucky not to get picked. Twidale was one, Matt McCarthy from Sunshine Coast Grammar was another. The only rationale I can think of is that coaches believe the GPS Competitions are greater preparation for the NZ Schoolboys, so while outside...

Flyhalf Jake Mason?

Team of the season voting has begun. We're giving one vote to each First XV coach, one vote to each of the GAGR writing team, and one vote to the general public. To have your say, get voting here:http://bit.ly/2cCmlQZ

Did somebody say Premiership favourites 2017???

Australian Schoolboys backrower Justin Sikimeti will be joining Norths (QLD) in 2017

BBC and GT both snapped 12-year losing streaks against Nudgee in 2016

A lot of work went in to doing up these numbers, so thank you for sticking with it Legend! Made for interesting reading about the state of GPS Rugby. If you'd like to see it back next year, make sure you tell the relevant staff at your schools that this is something you want to see...

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/qld-gps-r9-live-stream/ Links and tiny preview are online!

Wet weather changes things for me. Both TSS and BSHS are well suited to the rain, but State High are the most physical team in the competition. I think the rain delivers BSHS a solo premiership, but no-one is going to lead by much on the day. TSS have developed a really bad habit of starting...

Just tuned in to the NRL U20s match. Kalyn Ponga and Jaydn Su'a named to U20s team of the season. Ponga forced an error from kick-off, recorded a try assist and then nailed a sideline conversion. They're four minutes in. Hiale Slade-Roycroft is also starting for the Cowboys. Shame we...

He'd make my Team of the Season shadow squad for sure. The shadow backline would definitely have more high impact ball-carriers. 9. Sam Kirk 10. Augustus Rangihuna 11. Willie Malala (his front line defending is too valuable to waste him at Fullback) 12. Quinton Mahina 13. Semisi Tupou 14...

Previously, Downlands belonged to no competition. They organised the sporting calendar week by week, ringing up GPS Schools and offering to play them on their bye. In 2016 they founded their own competition to play in Term 2 with other smaller schools, but the GPS is still their main operating...

Competition-wide, I'd say participation is lower than 40% even with the brazillian teams per year at Terrace and Nudgee inflating numbers. Incentivising schools to participate is super challenging. To get small schools interested, cash and attention from the Queensland Reds must be the...

Not sure it would need to stretch into term 2? It seems pretty quick. The team plays three matches back to back in the pool stages. Winner of Pool A plays runner up of Pool A, for the right to play their Pool B equivalent. They progress to the grand final and it's a 6 game season. Term...