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That's correct. It's quite a production with 150 or so boys leaving after school Friday by bus. The Sydney schools help by making things like rowing sheds available for the boys to camp. It does mean that the boys are a little tired on the Saturday, TAS travels every second weekend, but hey you...

Sadly I won't be in Armidale, AS. I always have difficulty in previewing TAS in advance of the main comp because there are so few early games and I'm not close enough to pick up the pre-season gos. So far we have just the one result, KSW's comfortable 35-9 win. All TAS points came from...

Thanks, Hurly. I can go to bed now. I think New won against KWS - don't remember the numbers. A comparison of the two scores might provide a rough measure of TAS 1 against New 1. I have the impression that open numbers may be down at TAS this year. Still have absolutely no idea how the thirds...

Does anybody have feedback from the TAS-KWS games?

Thank you for this, White line fever. Really appreciated. Its quite a carnival now. Wide spread of participants. According to the school Facebook page, Moree Junior Bulls won Team of Carnival, Southern Districts were winners in Division 1-2, St Ignatius College Blue in Division 3, Kings...

The Beetoota Advocate on problems with Australian rugby http://www.betootaadvocate.com/sports/privately-educated-upper-middle-class-man-unable-identify-problem-australian-rugby-union/

I find the discussion here still very confusing. According to the TAS website, all grades including the 13s will be playing GPS. I don't have access to the school numbers, others may be able to help here who are more current knowledge, but based on the little I know I would expect TAS to have at...

Thank you for responding. That "arrangement" gets rid of the bye in the thirds and means Sydney teams don't have to travel. TAS still appears as TAS in the draw for the thirds. While I suspect I should be very grateful to Newington, it strikes me as very unfair to the Newington boys. There are...

Malpas Dam is about 22 minutes from Armidale. That was a lovely video. One of the really big differences from when I was at the school is the emergence of multi-media. I cannot compare TAS with other schools without a proper analysis, but looking at TAS on its own, the school moved into all...

Malpas Dam, Gara River, Armidale's main water supply

I had reservations about the co-ed decision, partly because of concerns on the impact on NEGS and PLC. I don't know what has happened there. Specifically on TAS in isolation, the decision seems to have have had a positive boarding impact in two ways: it may have increased the number of parents...

The first part of your first para really made me laugh B&W. Now who would do those things! I missed that match, I was working in Canberra. I know the school went wild. Had I been there, I might have disgraced myself by getting blind roaring drunk! TAS has had some very good teams. TAS is...

:) Didn't mean to sound negative. Sadly I won't be in Armidale, but would to have shown you around the school. The development has been truly astonishing. Reverting to the main topic of this thread, as a died in the wool rugby supporter it's good that TAS remains such a strong rugby school...

Joey's is about twice TAS's size. Total numbers come back to catchments. In day terms, Armidale's population is about 23,000 with six secondary schools! In boarding terms, TAS was hit with the social move against boarding, rise of more boarding schools, fewer country families could afford...

I really smiled when I got this. Thank you. TAS does so much for rugby and always tries to be hospitable. Its nice to see that recognised. It's just a numbers issue. TAS has more rugby fields than many of the Sydney schools, proportionately more playing rugby, but far fewer boys. When I was...

As a brief further point, if I interpret the draw correctly, I may well be wrong, there is only one game played in Armidale, that against Grammar, that must be the smallest number in fifty years

Into the valley of death....

On a completely different topic, does anyone have a feel for this year's thirds competition? It begins before the top grades and is (I think) minus Newington, so it's no longer a fully representative comp as it was. but its still the only rugby conp involving the TAS, High and Grammar. I imagine...

I didn't know how to respond to this, QH. My first reaction was bugger Joeys. My second reaction was to feel sad for the Newington Thirds boys who no longer have a comp. My third reaction was to think of the growing scheduling mess in the lower grades. I simply do not know enough about the...

I've been out of the loop. There have clearly been changes. Could someone please explain the structure of next year's comp with a special focus on the thirds