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Boof I think they heard you, before you even said it. I'm sure that it is no coincidence that the assistant Country Colts coach is the U18s coach. I'm sure that they are sussing U18s for their Colts development squad.

Thanks for doing this Boof NSW Country juniors is an area that really needs a lot of work. The U18s is a difficult group given HSC, and the schools comp. and the strange invention of a "traditional Sydney vs Country" game. The U18s played ACT Brumbies development team in Canberra a couple...

Flank, I don't think that they are corrupt (I know you're only venting, I couldn't believe it when I first saw it 2 years ago). The GPS, CAS and ISA train to a well worn pattern that works very well at schoolboy level rugby. The selectors are looking at selection from this position. CHS and...

Flank, it's not just CCC. CHS 1st played a 20 to 22 loss to GPS 1st and the selections were 7 to CHS and 22 to GPS. The problems IMO is the conflicted objectives of the comp.. The private schools are trying to market themselves as centres of excellence in educating boys, they have to justify...

Illawarra Avondale looking just too strong after the completion of the first cut. No one has come close. 14 Jun Shamrocks 17 v 46 Avondale 14 Jun Kiama 32 v 33 Vikings 14 Jun University 77 v 7 Shoalhaven 14 Jun Bowral 14 v 24 Tech-Waratahs

To bring it back to topic I think the ACT team will have benefited from a good hard hit out and the coaches identified things to work on. The backs got some good experience in how their patterns work. Another observation is the obvious influence of the Brumbies in a way I've never seen from the...

I was there as a country parent (so a bit one eyed). I thought the country boys were shell shocked by the opening salvo of a team that has obviously been very well drilled. To the country coaches credit he just kept encouraging the boys and trying different combinations to work out the problems...

I think the really great strength of a SD Illawarra team would be to bring in Campbelltown to make it a SD/Illawarra/Campbelltown JV. This, with time, would be a very powerful force in growing the game. Campbelltown and environs is a growing rugby force (Illawarra tried to recruit them into the...

I'm now in a position in the junior rugby journey where I'm seeing some of the boys return to rugby clubs and can catch up with them and their parents. The reports are all very positive from both boys and parents (I also know a boy who didn't accept an irregularity, he didn't think it would...

9. Should really be that the straightness of the throw is only considered if both team contest (i.e. jump) for the ball. If one or other or both teams choose not to contest why does it need to be straight? They've chosen to loose the contest and focus on the defence. 6. I'm OK with the half...

Shamrocks vs Vikings game yesterday was a thriller. Only 1 point the difference for most of the game. Vikings had some big bopa front rowers that tired early, and the smaller Shamrocks pack got on top of them as the game progressed. 4 minutes to go and Shamrocks scored in the corner but couldn't...

IS, The Shamrocks (Woonona) have lost 5 to Sydney private schools alone, a mix of scholarship part scholarship. Our 3 state U15 reps, we were never going to be allowed to keep them, and 2 others. This is just from 1 Illawarra club. I don't know who the ones are that have gone to Beecroft and...

My two bobs worth: Not too much wrong with the current laws, more the way they are interpreted. Change the refs view of off-side, about a meter back from where it is now, such that if any part of the player is off side then he is off side. Particularly around the ruck and maul. Too many...

Talking to a Kiama supporter on Saturday who said that they had a number of S.D players return to the club this year, which has seen a greater commitment to training and an injection of energy into the club which has then attached player in (some from league). It certainly has reflected in their...

I went up to Bowral yesterday, it's a beautiful time of year in the Southern Highlands. Bowral playing Shamrocks. Bowral have had a hard time of it in the last couple of years but are now rebuilding well and have good numbers. Shamrocks got off to a good start putting on 36 points in the...

03 May Kiama 23 v 17 Camden 03 May Shoalhaven 3 v 48 Avondale 03 May Shamrocks 15 v 15 University 03 May Vikings 12 v 10 Bowral Illawarra results for last Saturday. Surprise results: Kiama defeating lasts year premiers Camden Shamrocks draw with University

Yes, maybe that's what he means. Certainly that's about all be could control.

The SMH article mentions building the grass routes level as the key to success, I think we all agree to that. But how can you do this by if you only have the licence to the Tahs. What rights or say over the NSWRU, SRU and NSWJRU would you have? I think none. They get their $1.5 mil each year to...

There has been a misunderstanding of what Moore park means. They really meant to say the Royal Agricultural Society show grounds Moore park (which get shortened). This is an obvious choice as it provides good stabling facilities for the boys horses, they are close to Randwick race course to...

Kinda on a scholarship, Phillip II drafted him onto the coaching staff of the Macedonian 1st XV (probably didn't use Roman numerals). Phillip had got his son (Alexander) the captains position by using his influence with the selectors (I think he killed any that didn't select his son much as we...