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Yes, would be Nelson Roberts. He's been carving it up for school and club rugby for years and iMHO would be featuring in higher level reps, but he chose to stick to the (pretty demanding) Joeys 15A and Lindfield 15A schedule. He and Dan Darwall are the stand out GPS #7s and it will be very...

Schools will be very strong with a number of boys playing 1sts. They will win it easily. From there harder to assess. Syd u16s defeated Country a few weeks ago, but it was close. NSW U15s are a strong side but it's a big ask to step up against the older age group. I think they will be...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Agreed. Let's hope not too many get pulled up into Opens so the 16As competition remains at full strength

There was a separate u16s Invitational thread last year, but I don't believe anyone has started one for 2015.

S @SDW, each of Strang and Savala competed at Regionals and were overlooked in favour of 2 other halves and 2 other Centres respectively, including McCormack and Minogue. Entirely possible the selectors got it wrong but I personally didn't think so. Dutallis is a strong runner and plays OC...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Leaving aside the merits of your suggested team, have you considered whether your chosen name is likely to preclude you ever having any credibility on this site?

It's all mixed in with the CAS 2016 thread

Picking up this topic from NSW AAGPS 2016 thread, Red/Blue's predicted 2016 President's XV U16s team. 1. Will McLennan (I) 2. Julian Heaven (J) 3. Angus Bell (N) 4. Liam Jansen (N) 5. Jordan Brown (K) 6. Ben Peper (K) 7. Nelson Roberts (J) 8. Witeriana Koopu (N) 9. Joe Dalton (J) 10. Angus...

HJ, any chance of moving the relevant posts across to the Next Gen thread?

I haven't overlooked anyone on the basis of playing league vs club rugby. In fact, one of the boys I suggested has a strong league background so I'm not by any means opposed to it. My point of difference was in the amount of top level 'footy' being played. IMHO playing 2 games a week plus...

Haven't seen enough of Dalton to say, but McCormack (and Tejcek) have a lot of experience at higher rep level and you know they will perform under pressure. I think your initial choice, Bell is a better 10 - reads the game well, takes it to the line and has a great pass and kicking game. Has...

Minogue is back up NSW U15s #12 and, along with Easy (ISA) was preferred to Savala at Regionals. Savala has not played club for a couple of seasons and this has not helped his rugby. I cant see the other Scots boys suggested by RugbyHd, Strang and Baker being selected over NSW U15s #9 Pat...

Pop over to the 2016 GPS thread where this is under way.

A good thing for Joeys that Tyrone was on the wing and that he tends not to venture in too often looking for work. If he'd doubled his touches yesterday New might have won.

NIS, I think SDW is on the right track - a school seeking to focus their rugby players on little else but rugby 9 mths a year with a view to the (CAS) world domination you refer to. I don't agree with it and think boys should play summer sport. But so long as its the home grown product, its a...

@NIS, do you have any specific information to share about the "recent behaviour at Knox" assuming you are referring to scholarships as distinct from hothousing behaviour?

Many of the better players in the GPS 15A comp play club rugby. Some of those who did not make Syd selection will probably join (most of) the 9 GPS boys who did in making up the 46. You are right - perhaps none of the GPS boys who just missed Syd selection will make it and the other 35 odd...

Chris, if tone is unbecoming that was not my intention. I hope that the scots boy is ok and recovers well. My point, perhaps not well expressed, is that the rules appear open to ready gaming by anyone seeking to do so, which is rarely a positive outcome. And if anonymous bickering on the...

Correct. The boys who are giving their all week in and out in 15As and playing some pretty good quality footy don't share the view that it's 'just u15s so who cares'.

Like i said, my info was no injury, but happy to concede that may have been incorrect. Still not sure why a reputedly strong Scots U15s could not field a sub. You refer to injuries plural with New front row. That leading to an uncontested situation I can understand. A strong rugby school...