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Waverley v Knox lived up to expectations. The first half was nearly a carbon copy of the trip to the upper north shore. Waverley had the bulk of possession in the first half and threw it around with high risk/high return offloads that stuck. Scoring on halftime had them up 26-7. The weight of...

Fortunate to have him and rich enough to afford him and a dedicated 1sts coach as well. I have expressed this view before but I would argue that what grass roots rugby doesn't need is one very rich school to throw resources to out-spend their opponents in a competition in which they are the only...

To a degree. The game is the game & u play as you are coached & resourced. This is nothing about the players for the aforementioned reason. My point is the broader one of pitting professionally coached teams with large cohorts to draw from being matched against teacher/coaches drawing from...

Complete bollocks - I have matching chips on each. But the issue re professional v amateur coaches in same schoolboy competition is a real one. Insoluble situation but deleterious to rugby's future imho. And fact that parents accept it is part of the longer-term problem.

Sorry, travel in different soshal circles...(spelling mistake deliberate in case there are any pedantic/humourless types out there)

Yes a couple of schools - Waverley & Aloys (being the most financially challenged & ideologically indisposed) will maintain the teacher/coach role. I was at the game and must admit the Knox 'throw into the lineout to the tall kid, then use the big kids to drive forward' doesn't do much for crowd...

Would agree with Sidelineview. Knox weren't allowed to play their game in first half and a shrewd game plan by Waverley was well executed. Keep the ball in play & don't allow the Knox fwds to bore people to death & use their size to choke the other team with the rolling maul & pick & drive...

Aaah, the old damning with faint praise. Not full-strength Waverley 16As either so I'd say it was an even contest. Or you could have lost by more if Waves were at full strength. Remember this 16As also beat Riverview 16As. Anyway, always good to beat the silvertails at their palatial ground...

First game for a Year 10 lad plucked from 16As and plonked into the 1sts so give him a break. He learnt and held his spot the next week against Trinity and played well. Hate to see what happened to a kid who knocked on when you were coaching.

What subject does the Head Coach of Rugby at Knox teach during the day ?

And the good thing about schoolboy rugby is its potential unpredictability because we are after all talking about teenage boys. They don't all have adult temperaments, or bulk, or decision-making skills. So the on-paper matchup doesn't always accord with the on-field results. Could go either...

I was at the game and must admit I didn't see the Trinity 6 headbutt the Waverley 9, or the Waverley 9 headbutt the Trinity 6. More importantly neither did the referee or the two assistant referees who were much closer to the game than any of the people buying into this discussion. The obvious...

So clear evidently nobody appeared to see it other than you. Given relative height difference b/w Waverley 9 and Trinity 6 there must also have been a small ladder involved as well. Methinks he'll be playing next week and rest of the season.

Absolutely - i may have used a bit of poetic licence there, and everything is indeed relative. Realistically, any threads discussing CAS/GPS rugby are by definition dealing very much with a privileged subset of first world problems.

For mine, 6, 15 and 1 were the pick of Trinity and I would probably say that 30-13 flattered the men in green even though they toiled valiantly all day. Their tries came from a quick tap, punt downfield and footrace and the last play of the day which is reflective of the dominance of Waverley at...

I would agree with Snort on this downwards trend - not fatal (yet) but it does mean everyone are volunteers not press ganged. I would say that in Waverley's case the decision has been made that, while there are enough players in some age groups for an additional team, they will be conservative...

Waverley has the same rule re spectating but it applies to Years 7-11 (one year group allocated per home game) and you can choose soccer or rugby to watch. Last week Year 8 had 150 of 200 watching the rugby which means quite a few soccer players must have watched the 1sts rugby. That's...

Couldn't agree more re the funding model. Schools are left to their own devices and it appears that everyone else exists to feed the elite beast. The foundations are weakening at the same time that the sports scene is becoming even more competitive. At Waverley they cap AFL to one team between...

I would say that, while this is an incomplete Waverley 1sts (in that they have definite weaknesses) that have had some bad injury wobbles before the season starts, and in the trials they are adding a player a week back to the fold. There is good depth this year and next and that always helps...

Definitely game of two halves at Death Valley. Aloys went to halftime up 13-10 which should have been 20-10 were it not for a try saving tackle leading to Aloys spilling the ball over the line next to Waverley's posts. Up to the whistle, Aloys had been tenacious in defence and their backs made...