Search results

Interestingly Aristotle made the same observation about boys going onto compete in the Olympics. I guess we need little more time to get the point.

If true this would be good. Last year Illawarra had 6 U17 teams, Shamrocks, Vikings, Bowral, Campbelltown, Uni and a JV Kiama/Shoalhaven. It made for a good comp. with a Shamrocks-Campbelltown Grand Final that had a crowd of well over 2000. a great night of rugby. If Southern Districts...

The ARU has got it about 70% right at its first pass. I think this is a good result for the first year. I hope they can move that to 85% next year etc. Brainstrust you're right, can you imagine having to send you're child to an expensive private school to get good tennis, swimming, athletics...

If you all remember the good burgers of the East got rid of the Royal Agricultural show grounds so that they could have movie studio (more to their liking). They had it relocated to the country, where it should be, Homebush. I tell you Eastern suburbs types don't like country folk and won't...

Coach, As you can see I was trying to cover everyone with gratuitous, unjustified stereotypes. I think I got everyone and some people twice.

An Easts Country consortia can't possibly work, the cultural differences are too big. The Eastern suburbs are just full of latte drinking vegans, country people drink beer and eat meat, Eastern suburbs go to art shows and the opera, country go to cattle sales and country and westerns. What music...

Do all teams have 3 Colts teams this year? Does anybody know?

Whilst the Elite level rugby is a concern. My view is that a much greater concern is who is going to go to watch rugby in 20 years time. My observation of the rugby crowds is that it consists of rugby tragics, women who marry or want to marry rugby tragics (I don't know what that's about), and...

We are having an agreement fest here. Don't forget CCC which is in the CHS category. The problem in my view is that there are two entirely different objectives. One to promote very good, well trained players in front of scouts and selectors. The other to get boys and girls to play rugby...

QH, Maybe you meant "Leave GPS, CAS and ISA to their own devices they are going well and don't need ARU help." That covers about 5% of the schoolboys in NSW and QLD. The schools system is a disaster, any view of the shift in the make up of the Australian Schoolboys team should ring alarm...

I don't think you can nor would want to attack the private schools system. The question is "Is the $500k that the ARU puts into the schools system the best use of limited $ ?" I think not. My view is that: CHS and CCC should pull out of the schools system as they do not have objectives that...

Last year I went up to the U17 state champs. Illawarra was giving Gordon a fair thumping. Gordon had its private school stars pull out 2 weeks before, and the team management had to get on the phone and pull together an new team, and get it together in 2 weeks. These were the boys who no doubt...

Agree with Azzuri on the difference between the two teams. It seemed to me that the Sydney Nth boys had their combinations working better, Illawarra made too many passes to nobody and ran into each other too often. As is often the case the Illawarra boys were "harder" at the breakdown and I felt...

They maybe a completely fake team but they will be OUR completely fake team and NOT a Sydney team, we have goodies and badies. AND each venue will only get one game a year so you only have to rev. up the locals once a year. I'm going down to WIN stadium this Sunday to watch the JGC Illawarra...

You city slickers you don't know anything. You listen to "the Land" on the wireless to get the beef, lamb and wheat prices, and Country and Western music. You use the telephone to talk to a particular person, then Sharleene tells everybody in town what you talked about (that bit is...

From the outset I could think of a number of cashed up businesses that would want to create "good will" in the bush: SANTOS, over coal seam gas. CMD over its attempt to buy Graincorp (already a Country sponsor). POSCO in the Southern Highlands over coal mining. Any Hunter Valley open cut mine...

I very carefully avoided the other rules as I find all the others completely unacceptable.

I would like to see a JV team between Easts and the University of Woolloomoloo. It would have a number of substantial advantages over other teams: For television broadcasts all team members would be call Bruce, no confusion. The team would have a ready made theme song "The Philosophers song"...

One thing we haven't talked (argued/speculated/fabricated/gossiped) about is prize money. What are we playing for? The business end of the show. To get the ball rolling here's what I think would be reasonable: No money to the franchisees for anything other than results, pay for result only...

It is now vital that the Districts/zones step up to the mark, the ARU has provided a base for them to start from. Like our beloved federation we can easily do away with the state, city and country governing bodies. It's not that big and complicated that it can't be all run...