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Think you'll find 14A score was 34-12, New scored another try on fulltime.

Early results: 14A New 34 def Joeys 12 14B New 15 def Joeys 14 14C New 31 def Joeys 5 15A Joeys 43 def New 14

Think you find that your barking up the wrong tree with this one Joker. The TASP is aimed at students who are already at the school who are elite level sportsmen. It's not in any way a part of the admissions process. I'd have thought that assisting adolescents through the pressures of...

To my mind, what should be happening (or ideally should have happened over a year ago) is planning different options for a domestic professional league and talking to broadcasters and potential financers/sponsors with a view to achieving the best model. Firstly, we are both contractually and...

I claim to be no expert of on streaming and other technological issues, but I suspect that the competition would have to have been running for at least a couple of years and have proven to have a reasonable following before things like streaming would come into it. To that extent, I tend to...

I think that everyone appreciates that professional athletes need to be paid an approriate wage or they'll go elsewhere, so yes, there would need to be enough financial backing. I suspect that private money is more likely in a domestic competition with guaranteed exposure in the best timeslots...

But nobody has ever suggested doing anything which removed domestic professional rugby. On the contrary, many of us are advocating for an enhanced domestic professional rugby set-up. One of the reasons for my advocacy is to solve the issues to which you allude. A domestic league gives kids a...

Indeed. Voices of dissent in any society or group are healthy and often lead to relflection and positive change.

Interestingly in the past 10 years, 7 schools have won (including joint premierships). Joeys and Riverview being the only GPS schools not to win in that time.

I think that Wallabies would still register with the kids (although as you say mostly the died in the wool rugby kids). Don't think that non-Wallaby super players register at all. Most kids around here would have a greater recognition of Marlins or Rats players than non-Wallaby Waratahs. Of...

Any wild pigs around Stanmore will be very afraid at the moment.:)

A slight diversion to normal service: Newington have won the GPS rifle shooting for the 2nd consecutive year, narrowly defeating Shore. Something of a roll as the most recent win before these was in 1935:) Back to the rugby.

The big flaw in this is that very few kids watch super rugby (which I assume is what you mean by domestic professional rugby). Th crowds are abysmal and the last time I went, most of the dwindling band were middle aged. They still follow the Wallabies, but you're overestimating the...

I don't think that the two are mutually exclusive.

If the product is good enough, it will get interest from overseas. You only have to look at some of the content on pay TV hear - French Top 14, English Premier rugby, US college gridiron, various national soccer leagues. In most cases there isn't huge interest here in any of them, it's content...

The beautiful thing about sport is that we will know the result by 5pm Saturday.

Crowd revenue is already down and there's no reason to expect that TV revenue will not follow it. In the changes to super rugby Steve Tew said that the current division of broadcast money would remain for the current TV agreement, but beyond 2020 it would reflect SA and Aus having less teams...

Although those running the game were happy to leap into Super 18 and assure us all that it would be the saviour of Australian rugby. That seems to have been wishful and misguided thinking? Going into super rugby in the first place was a leap of faith, and I'm not criticising that decision at...

Their repeated position that they want to test themselves against South African opposition as it's a different style of play and the ground conditions in SA are different to NZ. They believe it provides better development for their players.

I'm more interested in people discussing different options that getting bogged down on another to and fro about the adminstration. I'd honestly be interested in any suggestion that you could make. You're one of the more reasonable people around here.