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Billy Sheehan (19)
J, my tips.Brave man tipping View. Good on you! I agree Newington at home will be too strong for the brave Shoremen
Joeys +15
New +12
Scots + 7
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J, my tips.Brave man tipping View. Good on you! I agree Newington at home will be too strong for the brave Shoremen
If the rumors are true that sjc 1,12,15 are being replaced I think view will have a strong chance at winning.Brave man tipping View. Good on you! I agree Newington at home will be too strong for the brave Shoremen
This game each year has plenty of False Flags being put up.If the rumors are true that sjc 1,12,15 are being replaced I think view will have a strong chance at winning.
TAS will always be a AAGPS school and its willingness to continue acting as one is so admirable.Can’t help but feel for the TAS kids. It’s got to be close to a 20 hour round trip by bus to get to their games in Sydney (or 16 hours by car). Must make studying for their HSC a lot harder.
I get the prestige of playing in the GPS competition is important for the school but I’m not so sure how beneficial it is for the kids.
I do get the historical aspect and appreciate that your father would have loved competing against the best athletes of the day but in rugby they don’t get the chance to test themselves against the best and I just feel for the kids in year 12 spending time on highways that could be better spent studying.TAS will always be a AAGPS school and its willingness to continue acting as one is so admirable.
In my day, we never saw TAS, only at the athletics, the only occasions when all 9 schools are present. They became your second choice in a race if your school did not have a runner.
The TAS students value this association and feel being a part of this is worth the bus ride down and back. Sydney schools look after them with accommodation and meals which leads to good camaraderie between the host and TAS.
My father was a TAS boy and he raced in the 110y and 220y in 1957 against the greatest schoolboy athlete of all time, Jim McCann. Doug Bursill from Scots was also racing and the two of them finished 1, 2 in both races with McCann setting a world schoolboy record in the 110y and long jump. At the end of each race (which he came last!) he had his hand shaken by Jim McCann, who, my father was in awe of. He has told me that those moments running on the SCG agaisnt all other AAGPS schools was worth the 13 hour train ride to Sydney.
Here is my father, at the back (far right), loving the chance to run against the other schools.
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AmenI do get the historical aspect and appreciate that your father would have loved competing against the best athletes of the day but in rugby they don’t get the chance to test themselves against the best and I just feel for the kids in year 12 spending time on highways that could be better spent studying.
Having said that I have absolute respect for their commitment and have no doubt they will rightfully remain a part of the AAGPS.
Has anyone got the scots 1st and 2nd XV team lists?
Cheers, Tony
The fact that they are in the 3rds competition and giving it a red hot Aussie go really makes me a proud AAGPS supporter.TAS will always be a AAGPS school and its willingness to continue acting as one is so admirable.
In my day, we never saw TAS, only at the athletics, the only occasions when all 9 schools are present. They became your second choice in a race if your school did not have a runner.
The TAS students value this association and feel being a part of this is worth the bus ride down and back. Sydney schools look after them with accommodation and meals which leads to good camaraderie between the host and TAS.
My father was a TAS boy and he raced in the 110y and 220y in 1957 against the greatest schoolboy athlete of all time, Jim McCann. Doug Bursill from Scots was also racing and the two of them finished 1, 2 in both races with McCann setting a world schoolboy record in the 110y and long jump. At the end of each race (which he came last!) he had his hand shaken by Jim McCann, who, my father was in awe of. He has told me that those moments running on the SCG agaisnt all other AAGPS schools was worth the 13 hour train ride to Sydney.
Here is my father, at the back (far right), loving the chance to run against the other schools.
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Have to agree with you J, the moving of the game to Leichardt will be magnificent but a step in the wrong direction i think. Having a full Leichardt hill will be a spectacular sight, but for me and the year 12 cohort (from what i've heard) would much rather see 'The swamps" hill be filled instead. It just doesn't feel right i think, and takes away from the strong rivalry that the schools posses.While the game this weekend is being held at Leichardt, not much discussion is being made about this change.
As an older bastard, I have always enjoyed visiting the grassy splendor of "The Swamp" or "Wolf den" as named by the students. There is something quaint about the old wooden grandstand that the visiting students occupy and the more modern (It has been there since the 1970's I think) stand the view boys use. It is rare in this day to see two schools side by side at a match. Newington is the only other I can recall that has the two student groups close to one another. Riverview provides this opportunity which in turn creates spectacle and atmosphere.
This is what AAGPS schools do very well. With the enormous tunnels of Scots and their screeching bagpipes, to the drum beaters of Riverview, the swordsmen at Kings and the banner wavers of Newington, this adds so much to the day. This is why many people enjoy the game, not just the rugby but the whole occasion. This weekend will Riverview be allowed to do their tunnel? This (while annoying) adds so much. The opportunity wont be there.
I find it such a shame that Riverview felt they needed to move it away from their grounds. In 1996? I was living on the other side of the Lane Cove river when the big game was on, I was unable to make it but I could easily hear the cheering as it wafted across the water. I knew when it was full time as the Riverview noise was immense. Will this be the same at Leichardt? Will this now be the norm for schools who feel they cannot control their grounds and crowds? If Kings with their 125 hectares and many, many entry points can do it, then why can't Riverview do it?
Joeys horde at View, 2018.
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The past 10 years has shown that they would struggle against the big school 1st XVs. They travel to Sydney on about 4 Saturdays. Is it really such a big imposition on their studies? If the students are that keen, they could study on the bus and they would probably get more done than most rugby boys do on a Saturday.I do get the historical aspect and appreciate that your father would have loved competing against the best athletes of the day but in rugby they don’t get the chance to test themselves against the best and I just feel for the kids in year 12 spending time on highways that could be better spent studying.
Having said that I have absolute respect for their commitment and have no doubt they will rightfully remain a part of the AAGPS.
TAS has a lot of boarders and kids that board typically travel enormous distances at the start and end of every term, long weekends etc.The past 10 years has shown that they would struggle against the big school 1st XVs. They travel to Sydney on about 4 Saturdays. Is it really such a big imposition on their studies? If the students are that keen, they could study on the bus and they would probably get more done than most rugby boys do on a Saturday.
This really makes my blood boil.As an insider at SBHS I can advise that the intake is solely based on State Government guidelines. There is no way to vary this whatsoever. They have to accept any boy that applies and is successful in the selective exams. Each boy and parent is told upon entry that they must play sport on Saturday however getting them to do this is almost impossible. Excuses are aplenty. There are only 180 boys entering in year 7 and usually there is only one or two boys that have previously played rugby. It is very tough to convince parents to allow their boys to play rugby.
On a brighter note the current crop of 1st XV players are mostly year 11 boys. The captain (no.10 and year 11 boy) did not play last week (injured) and has been in the 1st XV since Year 10. The other main player who is in the forwards is out for the rest of the year. They started with only around 22 players in total and one player is in his first year at rugby. These two boys mentioned would in my opinion make most 1st or 2nd XV teams.
The school has recruited some very capable coaches and expectations are that next year these boys will be much better physically and more competitive.
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Me after Pat young scores the game opener