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But hang on, isn't Waverley strictly a union school? I thought all those evil league types went to Marcellin. ;)

Is he on a scholarship?

It's not just selective high schools where rugby has died out - they are just the easiest examples to find because in the old days they catered more for all-rounders who had some academic ability, but also were good at sport. When I went to school, our biggest rival in rugby was North Sydney...

St Augustine's tend to drop away after the 1st XV as they only go down to 3rds. You'd have to assume that all of the 1sts squad and at least half of the seconds team would be on tour. If so an amalgam of St Augs 2nds and 3rds would be about the level of the Joeys 5ths/6ths.

Bring back the Mex

Meanwhile back at the ranch, we see how the ARU/RA choose to spend their (our) money. $1 million syphoned off through the back door to sort out the super rugby mess. Confidential documents obtained by Seven West Media show the Australian Rugby Union — now RA — agreed to pay former Rebels...

Exactly WCR, but unfortunately the typcial rugby reaction is what we've seen on this page, which is to dismiss what other sports do as not applicable to rugby.

Hockey runs off the smell of an oily rag compared to the bloated bureaucracy that administer rugby. As someone who has had some involvement in junior hockey, I can tell you that it it streets ahead of rugby in terms of elite development and grass roots engagement. To give you but one example...

But what about the areas to which the old rugby demographic moved? That's where the failure has been. And by the way, there's no particular reason why different cultural groups don't play rugby. What efforts have been made to engage them? I say this, because where my son goes to school...

My apologies, I misread the round 1 result.

Or maybe he's building the new library.

As you know, I've always advocted for the Cambelltown/Macarthur area to be included in rugby at the highest level. Broadly speaking I think you are right, but without significant and sustained support from NSWRU/RA I think we'd get similar results from what we've seen at Penrith. To me...

Unfortunately HQ have shown no sign in the last decade (and probably the last 15 years) that they have any real desire to provide meaningful and sustained assistance to Penrith. When they did (late 90s to early 00s) there were positive signs. JON pulled the funding, NSW went broke and that was...

The Waratahs told the kid to come back in 5 years, so he'd still have 3 more in league.;)

Ideally yes, but if they do the club has to be competitive and will need significant NSWRU/RA support for at least a decade or probably 2 otherwise we'll see a repeat of what's happened to Penrith. In the early 00s there were really positive signs, but as soon as NSW and Aust pulled the support...

They tried that either last year or the year before (at least in Colts) They really need to talk to subbies and see if they can fit them in. (Assuming that the SRU and NSWSRU talk to each other). Surely there must be people involved in the Penrith club who realise that their very existence...

What's going on at Coogee? Warringah put 40 on them yesterday and last week they lost by 25 to Gordon (at Coogee Oval no less). Easts then beat Gordon 52-0 yesterday.

Give em the point and make it 63-5.

And let's face it, watching the bye would probably be less painful than witnessing those embarrassing scores.

First grade colts results from yesterday Randwick 87 def Warringah 10 Souths 67 def Wests 14 Gordon 30 def Easts 24 Uni 90 def Penrith 7 Manly 27 def Norths 15 Eastwood 52 def Parramatta 17 Only 2 close matches out of 6:eek: