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Think Barker and Trinity both beat Shore?

Should have been a bigger margin but for some interesting whistle work

An unusually low scoring game for a GPS firsts game these days. Joeys obviously spent some time on defensive patterns this week after being involved in a couple of very high scoring games

Scots certainly finished with a wet sail

14 and 15 age groups played at Barker 15A Newington def Barker 28-19 15B Newington def Barker 22-10 15C Newington def Barker 46-14 14A Newington def Barker 35-5 14B and 14C unknown. Hopefully B and W at Stanmore to report other age groups

Tips for this week: Joeys to beat Kings by 5-10 Waverley to beat Riverview by 14 plus Scots to beat Knox by 20 Newington to beat Barker by 5-10 Shore should notch up a win against Oakhill

Indeed. The thread for those other discussions was closed down. The one useful purpose it served was to keep all those matters of the main thread so we can just talk about the rugby here.

The only qualification for being picked in any school team is being enrolled in the particular school. The idea that GPS andCAS schools shouldn’t enrol league players who want a good education is bizarre. A giant leap backwards into the amateur era of them and us.

At least two of the ‘uncompetitive’ schools are uncompetitive because they are academically selective and the demographic that they have attracted have little interest in sport in general and rugby in particular. Those schools are uncompetitive in every sport they play and they only reason they...

I don’t think people are saying that. What they are doing is noting the Waratahs steady decline in crowds and interest with an increase in crowds and interest in Shute Shield. SS also gets two hours FTA coverage every Saturday afternoon and the TV match gets a summary and some coverage on the...

Joeys always give plenty of kids a go in those early trials which is why I always treat Joeys early games with caution. They lost to Trinity for example in one of the first trials last year but went on to win the competition. I have Joeys as the lukest of lukewarm favourites ahead of Scots and...

Think you need to proof read this post, you’ve left a Waratah player in. (Smiley face emoji not working from my iPad)

I don’t know in this instance but from personal experience the two teams/schools would have been given an allocation of free tickets. And I’m sure that any parents, grandparents, siblings and extended families who missed the freebies would have paid to go to see their family member play in a...

He’s the worst TMO in world rugby

In some cases perhaps, but mostly parents are aspirational for their kids and send them to the school which they believe will provide a good education. For example Laurie Daley sent his boy to Joeys, Blocker Roach sent his boys to Riverview. I’d suggest that there are far more people like this...

I’ve never said the Shute Shield was perfect ever, so I don’t know why you have chosen to make that comment. For reasons best known to yourself you keep saying that a professional team representing 7 million people is out drawing a game a game in which two amateur teams drawing from just 200...

They also had Kings v Waverley 1sts as a curtain raiser which would have pulled a few extra in at Bankwest

Games for the last weekend of trials: Joeys v Kings and Trinity at Hunters Hill Riverview v Waverley at Lane Cove Scots v Knox at Warrwee Shore v Oakhill at Castle Hill Newington v Barker at Stanmore 3rds High v Joeys at McKay Grammar v Kings at Weigall Shore v TAS at Northbridge Scots v...

I don’t believe I used any of those terms about you or anyone else?

A worrying statistic