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That won't be the case because they don't play against schools sides anymore, unless by exception. The Oz Schools team played six games on tour in 2009 and only one was against a schools team. They won that one comfortably, against Ireland Schools, but the other five were against national or...

— and plays with some of his Newport mates there.

There is a blog on the performance of the Oz team in the JWC here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/review-australian-performance-at-the-jwc/?preview=true&preview_id=50592&preview_nonce=1eec2fa28c .

I suggest that nobody talks on this matter until they talk to the family, as I have. I won't because my information is privileged. .

Good post - this addresses the matter better.

I was talking about selectors. Which of the of the selectors of Australian Schools are in this category? .

Whichever state or territory wins or plays well in the Oz Championships let us not quibble that that state or territory should have more players in the two Oz Schools' teams than they did just because of that. The teams are thrown together after their local trials and some can't click even...

They have the same mother and father. They are twins but not identical twins. .

By all accounts he is. Somebody told me Horwitz is playing 12 in first grade though I may have mistaken what the fellow said. Incidentally, when I asked David about his non-selection for the tour of Fiji and NZ in the Oz Schools team, after a Tahs training session just after he had finished...

Guys - we have let this discussion of scholarships go through to the keeper because the dialogue has been genteel compared to the feral posts we read in the past. But this matter is now excluded from this thread. Future posts on the topic should be made in this thread...

There is a blog on the trial games yesterday here. http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/nsw-school-trials-final-day/

The thing that concerns me most about this match is that the Wobs have not had a warm-up game. I shudder when I think of the opening games of 2011 and 2012 against Samoa and Scotland. Sure we could look at extenuating circumstances in those matches, but we always seem rusty at the start of a...

When I first saw the Oz team and the locks being Horwill and Douglas I thought: who of them is going to call the lineouts (and plan the defence in them)? Then I saw Mowen's name at 6 and I cheered up. Make no mistake: Mowen is going to be an important player at lineout time and it is obvious...

Correct and correct. And hopefully the ref will notice where Vunipola's backside is pointing after the hit when he comes off the bench. And when Coles comes on, it would be good if the ref noticed how he plants his hands on the ground in front of the ball to steady himself before he tries to...

So North is healthy. And Davies switched in to 12? I can't remember his playing there much. I would have switched BOD whose attributes are universal - he even played scrumhalf for Ireland this year.:) Croft as a lineout specialist, and his skills, was expected after the Tahs match, but they...

Actually, in the main game I had the camera accidentally on the wrong setting. I meant to have the dial on the "sports" setting with an action icon, but when I got home I saw that I had it on the "close-up" section with a flower icon. Most of the photos were blurred except when the players...

The blog is here: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/nsw-schools-trials-cas-v-gps/

Thanks, but is that the right spelling? The programme last night, and the one from Cranbrook, list him as Satui.

I have deleted the quotes of Ted S Hunter because they are too big. Excellent stuff TSH - and if I knew you were doing a report like that I would have got you to do a blog. As it is: I am doing one (belatedly). Does anybody know the try scorer of the first CAS Ones' try? The CAS bench...

Well, CAS had 6 of the 7 in the backline last time out v. CHS and they weren't too flash, but their forwards had trouble providing quick ball, to be fair. The thing is though: they will probably have the same problem v. GPS. Pappa is a NSW selector only these days; so I wonder how he will view...