Lote

[Cutter]

Nope, not at all. Proud product of the public school system, and didn't even understand the concept of "boarding school" until a couple of people I knew left to finish their senior years elsewhere.

What I don't like is how rugby fails to spread its wings because private schools have a stranglehold on who gets a run at higher levels. Not the GPS' fault of course, it has just always been that way, and why we're viewed from the outside as a minority sport for white people named Charles, and those cuzzies who didn't bother playing league.

Your posts suggest you have a private school chip on your shoulder.

Times have changed. Plenty of the current Wallaby squad are from outside the private school system - think George Smith, Cliffy Palu, Rob Horne, AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper), TPN, David Dennis, Pek Cowan, Ryan Cross et al. League is embedded in public schools though and, until that changes and rugby gets a foothold, a disproportionate number of Wallabies will come from private schools. However, the proportion from the public school system is increasing.

I didn't go to a private school.

 

[Spook]

I'm with NTA on this as I'm a supporter of egalitarianism. I will say though that regardless of background, all players need to buy into the traditional union culture of being a gentleman - ladies included.

There is a divide though:

It's us and them at the footy
LOUIS ANDREWS
28 Mar, 2010 10:18 AM
CANBERRA'S dedicated rah rahs are typically wealthy, often golf fans and unlikely to watch Super 14 games at their local watering hole.

Their rugby league counterparts are less likely to be female, and less likely to have travelled from interstate for a game.

Crowd profiles released to the Sunday Canberra Times show the average Brumbies home crowd is more likely to be female, older and wealthier than the average punter at a Raiders NRL game.

The two demographic tallies, submitted to the ACT Government as part of the respective teams' performance agreements, showed marked differences between the capital's rival codes.

ACT Brumbies management surveyed crowds at two Super 14 home games in 2009, against the Canterbury Crusaders and the NSW Waratahs.

About 30 per cent of the rugby union crowds had a university degree; almost a quarter of those had completed post-graduate studies.

And 45 per cent of Brumbies home game attendees boasted an annual household income of more than $100,000.

For the Raiders crowds, earnings were measured as personal income rather than household income.

The data shows 22 per cent of Raiders crowds earned between $60,000 and $80,000 a year. Just 8per cent earned more than $100,000.

 

[RugbyReg]

just saw some highlights of the match v the Cowboys. Another try from Lote, and a goodun (after some good Benji work).

Just reconfirms to me that we (the collective "we" for rugby) beefed him up too much and would have been better off letting him stay lithe and use his space and allusiveness.

Oh well.

 

[Reddy!]

Yeh saw that as well, he is in good form and is playing quite a big part in Wests season so far. Did you see the try he set up for Marshall last week? Scooped up the ball at the 20metre, ran about 60metres beating 2 defenders on the outside, and then held the ball up for Marshall to arrive then offloaded and try

 

[Scarfman]

All it proves is that if a rugby opposition had 2 men in the bin, Lote would have carved up.