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You do realise that the number of kids who play club rugby declines each year?

Indeed, because eventually there won't be anyone left to recruit.

ABs v Barbarians 1973

104,000 people at Murrayfield for Scotland v Wales 1975.

Shute Shield now the only place - there's a kid playing firsts for Uni this week who didn't make any of those junior/school rep teams

Those on these threads who think that recruiting talent (through bursaries, scholarships or other means) into a very small pool of private schools is a good thing for rugby, then have a look at the Australian 20s selected to play Fiji. There is NOT ONE BOY in the squad who went to a...

Interesting that in the squad selected there is NOT ONE BOY who went to a comprehensive state high school. Every single player has gone to a GPS/CAS/AIC/ISA school (i.e. a private school) or to a state sports high school (NSW). The kid from Randwick Boys' High (who isn't in the team) is the...

Think they'll learn more playing for Uni than with the Waratahs. At the moment, you wouldn't wish "future Waratah" on your worst enemy would you?;)

I heard a whisper that the SRU would be making a decision on Penrith's continued involvement sometime this week.

We're repeatedly told that because we aren't in complete control of all aspects of rugby within Australia, that we are doomed to fail regardless of how good or bad our administrators are. League and Aussie Rules are used to make this point, but in Ireland Gaelic football and hurling are under...

But I wouldn't have thought that boys moving from Trinity to Waverley would fit into this category though.

And let's not forget Ireland, where rugby is in great shape, but is in competition with soccer, gaelic football and hurling in the same way we have league, Aussie Rules and soccer. We're repeatedly told that because we aren't in complete control of all aspects of rugby within Australia, that...

But the people running the game have been in a virtual world for a few years now.

I could have made just about every comment in that article. A couple of my favourites: "The ongoing results are very predictable too. Creates for a seriously average product. Any sport's popularity will take a dip when one team/country just completely dominates. Oz derbies are rubbish, Oz...

You'd think so, not sure who organised the games - it's usually the tour operator.

Not sure who is on tour, but it would be opens so I assume mainly 1s and 2s. (16s going to Ireland in September/October holidays so not too many if any would do both) First game was close, but don't know the name of the school they played. (but I can tell you that they had a barbecue...

Game 3 in Capetown won by New 43-0 over Jan Van Riebeeck HS. Unfortunately when teenagers write blogs, there's more information about what they had for breakfast, what their rooms look like and the facilities at the local shopping mall than there is about the games.:D

Then there's the physical toll on growing bodies of two full contact, high intesity games in two days, plus 3-4 contact training sessions between the two different teams.

This is the inherent problem with the rugby model. It's, with the possible exception of rowing, the only sport where school sport is stronger than club junior sport. Straight away this limits the base. There's nothing wrong with having strong school sport - sports such as water polo and...

School sport still exists in state schools, it's just that in most cases rugby isn't a part of it. I think that there is one or possibly two Wednesday afternoon zone rugby competitions left in Sydney playing rugby. The local zone here has soccer and touch football as their "grade sports" i.e...