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Ollie Cummins signs with Force

Who does everyone think is the team to beat next year? Knox or Waverley? I think Barker won’t quite have the talent to compete with those two this year, and my early prediction will see Waverley taking home the Henry Plume Shield undefeated, just beating Knox. I would say Barker will be...

No. Oakhill is a great rugby school. Actually went there for a while. But Dean Hargreaves is the Gen Blue coach and was the reason he was interested in Barker. Also from a purely objective point of view, you've never watched Sam play if you think he regressed as a player. U15's he was a rugby...

Oakhill. Decided to join Barker for better coaching and it clearly worked.

Yep. Establishing Barker as an elite 1st XV program will in turn, want parents with children who are involved in rugby to attend Barker. Scholarships don’t destroy that culture or Waverley and Oakhill and the GPS schools wouldn’t have culture. Move on.

I disagree. If you get shafted in year 11 or 12 you’re simply not good enough.

So same as knox and Waverley then.

It absolutely is.

Yep. In 2 years Barker made a soccer player into a fullback who scored 4 tries in one game playing for CAS and who had 14 NSW players in one opens age group… but they are a rubbish footy program that buy all their talent in the eyes of footy genius jumping_jack… think it’s time people like JJ...

This may be the most bitter thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Yep. But they did. It’s not like Knox hadn’t done the same thing. And Waverley for that matter.

And And Tom Livingstone who was unlucky to not make Aussie Schoolboys I believe started in the prep? Maybe it was year 7.

They beat Waverley by like 20? Not 1. And Sayoun improved so much from the time he started at Barker… he at one point wasn’t even looking like making the 1’s at Barker and he improved out of sight… because Barker is a great rugby program.

Mate… he joined in year 7… and his older brother was already at the school… pull your head in

Not to mention expanding feeder schools in country regions, mainly, but not exclusively for Indigenous Students.

https://www.rugby.com.au/videos?id=efe50480-48da-42cf-f4ed-08d7b2d29bbc!australian_u18s___schools_v_australian_u19s_barbarians Aus Schoolboys vs Aus Barbarians (u19's) happening right now. Oniti Finau having a blinder. Few ex-Trinity boys in the mix too for the barbarians.

These schools are perfectly good schools, but are at a disadvantage by virtue of being in the country. For example, Kinross was 163rd in the HSC rankings last year and Stannies were 355th. If the boys in question thought they were better off staying at their previous schools then they would have.

Seems like your tantrum has prevented you from registering what I am saying... Talent is not created by a school, it is received by a school and then nurtured... Barker does not receive the talent of the GPS schools or Knox or Waverley, but a successful 1st XV team will make parents want to send...