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Charlie Fox (21)
1st prize award for irrelevant questions goes to you.
CAS Rugby 2023
- Thread starter rod skellet
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1st prize award for irrelevant questions goes to you.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Don’t be too arrogant there. Your Barker colours are showing.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Thanks. So how many?
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Ward Prentice (10)
All we know from 2022 is Barker have some great scouts and unlimited resources(money) to spend.
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Charlie Fox (21)
Yep. And they were given the opportunity to improve. Which they did.
Don't act like great rugby programs make talent... they take talented kids and make them great rugby players.. very very few people have the ability to become elite rugby players. The likes of Joeys and some other schools, who have previously established themselves as great rugby schools are fortunate enough that they organically receive rugby talent... Barker is simply having to acquire talent in a different way. They are still a great rugby program that is able to produce great rugby players, as well as take great rugby players and help them refine their skills. The fact that Barker now had 14 boys who made a NSW team over the past 2 years, (as Ekenyake was elevated to Gen Blue after the Nudgee game) proves this. Meaning that, when completely healthy, there is only ONE player in that Barker 1st XV who isn't a NSW representative... Eventually, at this rate, Barker will establish itself as an elite rugby school and will organically bring in ample talent.
You are achieving nothing with this rant. The fact of the matter is you just look bitter.
RedOrDead
Charlie Fox (21)
Don't know champ. But it's best you move on. You look genuinely goofy.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Also to highlight the entire competition changes when Billy Pollard and Luke Reiner turned up to Barker. Without that staring point as many posters have said, the CAS wouldn’t be in this arms race.
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Charlie Fox (21)
Produced 14 NSW players...
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Charlie Fox (21)
Not complaining about the arms race. It's great for CAS rugby. Also pretty sure the Sydney Waverley Roosters came before Reimer. Not that I have an issue with what Waverely do with their money. Good on those kids talented and fortunate enough to receive such an opportunity.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Good scouting. Picked up kids already in the system. Well done.
Helps that you also have a coach that only pushes his kid coaching gen blue.
Like the Poynton CAS selection debacle.
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Charlie Fox (21)
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Ward Prentice (10)
Elite rugby school?
That would mean that teams other than your firsts would need to win a game.
How many games did the rest of the teams in your school win? I can count them on one hand if you like.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Your words, not mine.
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Charlie Fox (21)
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Ward Prentice (10)
Was it 4 all up?
Didn’t even play most other schools in the a’s?
A long way to go to be an elite rugby school.
RedOrDead
Charlie Fox (21)
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Ward Prentice (10)
Is that the face Barker kids make when they have to play a ‘a’ team from another school in 13’s to 16’s?
Or when a kid enrolled for 7 years misses out in a firsts spot to a new year 11 boarding scholarship?
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Charlie Fox (21)
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 their kids to the school for rugby... They will then receive said talent and have a deep rugby program... It is a process that has just begun.
And as I said... if you miss out then you're not good enough. Get better.
Keep throwing your tantrum though, it's not like you like bitter and silly.
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Ron Walden (29)
Would be interesting to get some input from Kinross and Stannies here…
They are some pretty great schools being thrown under the bus by the Barker faithful.
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Charlie Fox (21)
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.