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No, team announced today to be posted on Sydney website tomorrow.

That was not the case in the 15's, Grand finalists were Gordon and Eastwood. In the zone West beat southern and Barbarians, north beat west and barbarians, barbarians beat southern only - that is they came a clear second last as you would expect. Which ever way you twist it its hard to explain...

Final placing for u15 Zone tournament 1. MWZ 2. MNZ 3. Barbarians 4. MSZ Selections for Sydney team: West 4 with the remaining 19 predominantly north and Barbarians. No doubt there is a perfectly good explanation as to how the second placed team and...

I joined the blog about a week ago so the reason for my silence until recently is self evident. I’m talking to you now aren’t I? And I have already put my hand up and have been involved in Oakhill and other rugby for years, that's why I know it can be improved but thanks for the gratuitous...

You seem to believe criticism equals playing the victim card and being a disgruntled dad which is quite a leap considering you know little about me and nothing about my son.

You got one thing right Tragic and that is you could be wrong. My son isn’t in the opens and my comments aren’t about the first XV, I’m talking about Oaks rugby in general.

Rugby tragic you are playing both sides of the fence. On one hand you talk about the mental toughness lacking at Oakhill and in the next breath you take the sport is not compulsory it’s about participation line. Once again they are not mutually exclusive. As far as the Ferrari tastes line –...

Crofty I absolutely agree with you in that an all round education is, and should be the schools priority. Having said that there is an equally compelling concept in the pursuit of excellence, wether in rugby or marbles, and they are not mutually exclusive. There is also the matter of fairness...

1.This is the big fish in a little pond mind set I was talking about. Oakhill should be striving to be the best in all organisations including GPS, if they’re not in the top two ISA most years they should give the game away. 2.The only thing preventing Oakhill lower grades from being...

Refer post above. My argument is the lack of a programme, talent identification and developmement means they will have the strong years like 2012 but will continue to fall short of their potential and not acheive the consistancy and depth of success that the leading schools enjoy.

No one said Oakhill haven’t enjoyed success. As I stated they are lucky to have a large pool of talented players. As far as lower grades having good structure etc is concerned that is simply not true. The likes of Joey’s, Riverview etc are technically superior and consistently outperform...

Yes, exactly. Performance varies from year to year (but not the personnel) within the same group which supports my comments on the clique that exists and the ad hoc, amateurish approach to rugby

For sure, if Oakhill had programmes like some of the tradiaional rugby schools I have no doubt they'd be a premier force in rugby. We were lucky enough to receive superb coaching through our school years and I can only shake my head when i look at how Oakhill runs things.

Well I guess it depends on your definition of competent, In my experience most coaches are barely competent, so I tell you what more I’d like, someone to coach the coaches and coordinate the rugby development. They had a guy there a couple of years ago, qualified and prepared to do all of that...

There are the annointed few and the rest, it's as simple as that. Teams are mostly picked before a ball is kicked, trials are a joke and like the Aussie cricket team it's harder to be dropped from the side than it is to get in it. Many will slip by the wayside when they finish school as their...

They don’t concentrate on anything. There is no co-ordination between teams and years, no structure or planning. Each year teams are allocated to new coaches based more on years of service than knowledge of rugby. A clique exists so for some there is little pressure to perform, talent is not...

Hopeless coaching, a non-existent rugby programme and ad hoc approach could have something to do with it. Oakhill have loads of talent that’s just going to waste.

Broken leg. Nasty.

Don’t know if North’s were hard done by, unlucky for sure but as they say that’s the luck of the draw. Few would have given Eastwood a chance of making the finals and that’s the beauty of the tournament - like Samoa making the semi’s a few world cups back it enhances the competition.