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I forgot him: he played 12 for CHS II last year. .

I thought that Deegan was more impressive than Third during the week, though he was behind a better pack than Third was. .

It's fairly well covered: If one of the 9s or 10s get injured the other one can cover them. If the 12 gets hurt Deegan, has played there. If the 13 goes down Hutchison comes on. If Kellaway gets injured at 15, Jones can move from the wing and Milne play there with Hutchison playing 13 -...

Kellaway weighed in at 86kgs last year and is probably closer to 90 now; according to his elder brother he's been in the gym a lot.

There is no doubt that Kellaway will have to get his passing game better to catch up with his running game. Even we who watched him two years ago could see that. Maybe his playing flyhalf at Scots this year will have him a different player by the end of the season. But right now I'm not...

He was probably the player of the tournament last week. Some people bag him for not passing and dying with the ball but, with him that dominant on the run, I think he was entitled to risk matters in the times he failed. And I recall a couple of times that he passed to Harry Jones for tries...

Agree, but his effect in defence is under-rated - though that will diminish over time as his opponents catch up with him physically. Twice in one game last week (v. CS?) he jolted the ball loose in a tackle and tries resulted to others; once immediately. .

Newington (GPS) is playing Trinity (CAS) as the curtain raiser to this game at 5.40pm. New should win handily but folks should get to the main game early to see some of the Oz Schools players in action. Newington had ten of their players in the two NSW Schools sides and of those, four got in...

Arjay could lose a few kilos, even as a prop. On Fereti S - I thought he was Victoria's best player during the week.

That could be right though one doesn't know. As George Smith has mentioned: the selectors have a checklist of things they watch for in each unit of the team, including the backrow unit. BPA was a tight no.7 of the Phil Waugh type: he didn't show a lot of linking ability compared to Wilkin...

Thanks for that tid-bit. There is certainly something of a backrower in his play, but the Vic scrums seemed to go OK; so he must be going well in that department. He had a good week and RJ Sa'aga got called into the Vic side and did well at THP when he got on. I'm assuming that they are...

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If anybody is interested I have added some photos and a slideshow to the blog of the final day. http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/aussie-schools-champs-final-day/ .

Incidentally, about the Oz Schools sides selected: – they are not chosen like the two NSW teams, for example, were selected – i.e. the best XV in the Ones, the second best XV in the Twos, the best 8 reserves in the Twos, then the second best 8 reserves in the Ones. The reasons for doing that...

According to Eddie Jones, Jake White should take over for a couple of years and get the crap out of the Wallabies (off-field dramas, poor basics etc.) Then McKenzie, who would have been at the Rebels in that time (according to Jones) would be appointed Wallaby coach. Sounds like a plan. .

Their chances will be better. On average, such a player will get better coaching in a GPS school and improve their S&C and rugby there. In a parallel universe the same player who stayed at his local school will not be as good a rugby player – on average – when the trials and Oz Champs are...

Chris Feauai-Sautia started for Oz Schools at 15. Curtis Browning started for Oz A Schools at 15 and for Oz Schools at 16. .

You probably misunderstood what I wrote: Some of those Twos players who returned to school in the following year and played in the Ones, did well when they left school but not many of the others did Slipper, Toua, To'omua were in the group I mentioned that returned in 2007 and played in the...

Not many of the IIs players that year (2006) were ever going to picked for Oz Schools. You can have half a team of strong players and still lose because of the other half; but you can make a strong team with the strongest from two teams. We even spoke up this at the ground at the time. There...

They're always there and there's probably more of them at U/16s because the Opens lads are well known to all of them already. Years ago I was at the Aussie Champs (at Queens Park, I think) and Noel Cleal and Cement Gillespie were in front of me in the food queue. They carried off a lot of...