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ARU had $31 million in the bank in 2003.;)

^^^The Blacktown site is where any new western Sydney SS team should be based and it's where RA or NSWRU should build a western Sydney rugby academy. (As I've suggested on the SS thread) Just imagine if we had $31 million in the bank, we could use it for something like this.;)

I hope it's a recognition by the hierarchy that the need to drive and fund any meaningful expansion into western Sydney. Andrew Hore has been saying some very sensible and insightful things recently. I hope he can put his words into deeds.

They're a dysfunctional rabble.

It's the worst ground in the NRL and is bascially a relic from the 1980s. The council are probably surprised that anyone would want to play there. In many ways Rat Park is a better facility.

Sensible thinking outside the square by someone. There is hope.

As I commented on the SS, this is the only way to do it, but the three RUs need to be aware that this will take a good 20 years and they need to be it in for the long haul.

Where are you Raelene?

Primarily yes, but the issue is slightly more complex than that. Under the model of administration since JON in the early 00s, the ARU/RA fund the state unions largely through the Wallabies, broadcast agreements etc. So when JON pulled the funding in the early 00s and the NSWRU went...

I understand the angst about the removal of Penrith from SS, but this has been coming for a while - since the early 00s in fact when ARU/NSWRU pulled the funding. I have enormous sympathy for the Penrith club, as I feel that they have been treated quite poorly over a period of time...

Knox, Waverley, Barker, St Pats, Pius, Redfield and Riverview seem to be the only Old Boy teams left. Kings used be really strong and had 4 grades IIRC, High and Grammar also had teams in the past. Many of the older surf clubs used to have teams as well, but not many of them left either...

100% agree. Anyone who is playing lower grades for a SS club has made a conscious decision to register and play for that club for a range of reasons; playing with mates, playing for the club that dad played, playing for the club with a family or junior association, playing for the local club...

I think that your post illustrates the essential weakness in the proposal. Everyone wants to play on a Saturday afternoon, and as most of the people involved are amateurs then everyone should be able to play on a Saturday afternoon.

St Augs 3rds to play SJC 10ths on Saturday. Age groups As v As and then offset down the grades.

Augustines have apparently won their first two games in Japan.

All but confirmed. http://www.sportingnews.com/au/rugby/news/penrith-emus-to-be-booted-out-of-shute-shield-rugby/1hp73evrn3kalz43a1wuayhuo

And Easts v Parra to play their game at Wade Park in Orange. SS more than doing its bit to spread the game.

Part of it was also made into a synthetic hockey pitch when Cintra Park was requisitioned for Westconnex.

You're entitled to your opinions and I'm entitled to have an alternate view, but please don't give me the moral high horse stuff. I had you pegged as a rational, reasonable poster until this effort. You seem to have a view that one part of the game is to blame for all the ills going on around...

Final game of the Newington tour of South Africa; Newington 35 def Somerset College 0. Somerset College founded 1997, co-ed and English speaking.