None I am afraid.
I have been over doing it these past two weeks and must rest.
If I could I would have gone to the Scots V Shore game. I will never go to Leichardt.
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I have been over doing it these past two weeks and must rest.
If I could I would have gone to the Scots V Shore game. I will never go to Leichardt.
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Allen Oxlade (6)
thoughts on joeys v view game? Joeys coming of 3 straight losses and with logan back are going to be dangerous however, view are never to be underestimated.
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Fred Wood (13)
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Frank Row (1)
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Billy Sheehan (19)
Now now @Joker, we all know the letting Bladesy walk over to your mob changed Scots dominance
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Allen Oxlade (6)
The Marists can coach a pretty mean rugby league team as well, Brother Silverius coached St Greg’s for many, many years, at one stage half the coaches in the NRL were Pop’s protégés along with a long list of NRL players.
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Frank Row (1)
I tend to agree here Chairman,
The Shore backline will need to put in a great effort as a returning Fittler and the plethora of heavy hitting Scots boys will no doubt be making attempts to rise to the occasion on some of their final schoolboy games ever.
I can only pray Shore can pull through and win it as I believe they are deserving after the long awaited drought of an outright premiership.
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Bob Davidson (42)
Scots haven't exactly been great this year, why are they now being hyped up before the final game
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Alfred Walker (16)
2 points-1) sounds like Abdo’s fairy tail. The kind of puff piece journalism that is really just a press release written in house at the NRL and handed to a lackey journo at Holt Street to try and influence decision makers. 2) speaking of decision makers, I very much doubt Joeys, Shore or Riverview would support this. I imagine Newington and Scot’s might and I think Kings would be on the fence. The vast majority of old students from all schools would be against it.
A final comment, if some wanted to go this way, it would be the end of the AAGPS, period. Sounds dramatic I know but the reality would be that simple. Player numbers for both league and union would fall. More and more the focus would be singularly on the top team and each would contain half a dozen highly played players.
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Billy Sheehan (19)
Why do you think Scots and New would support this? What evidence do you have to back this up? I am not sure you understand the importance of Rugby at Scots or the traditions there. League will never get off the ground as a GPS comp or if it did it would be some ticky tacky thing they tried with AFL a while back.
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Phil Hardcastle (33)
Returned their best player and the backline looks very threatening. At home too trying to deny Shore the outright crown they will have plenty of lads behind them.
No doubt they have the firepower, but can they put it together?
Not to say it's a major sport, but the View lads showed up on Fri night to support the XVIII in the Grand Final against Knox.
Replay: Saint Ignatius' College Riverview vs Knox Grammar School (ISC Grand Final)
Watch all the action from the AFL Sydney game between Saint Ignatius' College Riverview and Knox Grammar School (ISC Grand Final), on 9 August 2024 at 7:40 pm AEST
A league/ union split would be the AFLs wet dream.
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Jim Clark (26)
I think there goal would be to “get a foot in the door “ and then eventually takeover … play the long game
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Sydney Middleton (9)
I reckon Shore are favourites to win the cricket this year.
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Sydney Middleton (9)
I'm not sure whoever wrote the article has much understanding of how full the calender already is. Isn't touch footy already offered at many schools over summer? The bigger loser may be cricket.
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Sydney Middleton (9)
In schoolboy sport, always back the choke/ collapse!! Pressure will be too much for Shore, so hopefully Joeys can knock over Riverview to get the joint premiership.
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Jimmy Flynn (14)
Scots 100+
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Jimmy Flynn (14)
I attended Shore from 2017 to 2022 and witnessed, first-hand, the dark days of Shore Rugby and the beginning of the resurrection.
Every Thursday morning after period 2 finished, assembly would commence either in the War Memorial Hall or the School Quad, depending on the availability of the hall. From 2017 to 2019, I wasn't interested in the GPS Rugby competition whatsoever. I did not attend any games, nor did I pay attention to any results. Despite this, I became accustomed to the weekly announcement of how much our First XV had been beaten by the previous weekend.
Despite this, the culture and support were still there, reflected by the cheer captains every single year. They were the highlight of assembly every week.
A quote I vividly remember from the cheer captains of 2019:
"Boys make sure you're at Northbridge this Saturday, 3:15pm, massive game against Scots. I think soccer is on at 1... or something? Anyway, make sure you're at the footy."
If you asked Year 9 me, in 2019, to name a single First XV player or else I'd get shot, I'd have had ten bullets in my head.
Despite my lack of interest, I still knew that the problems with Shore Rugby stemmed from matters outside the team. Dr Timothy Wright, Headmaster of Shore from 2003 to 2019, disagreed with the direction that other GPS schools were taking in their approach to their Rugby programs. This included the way players were trained and also coaching, both personnel and coaching styles.
Dr Wright left at the end of 2019 and was replaced by Dr Timothy Petterson in 2020. Dr Petterson's arrival coincided with the opening of the R A I Grant Centre, a state-of-the-art sports and training facility that is far superior to anything that other GPS schools have at the moment. Along with this, the rugby program underwent massive reform under Dr Petterson's leadership. The MIC of Rugby resigned and new coaching staff were brought in to start building Shore Rugby from the bottom up, not the top down. The results of this system are now being reflected today. My year group was the strongest the school had seen for a number of years and had been since the U13s. I remember having conversations with people who had attended other GPS schools who genuinely thought that Shore would win the title in 2022, the year we reached Year 12.
I didn't notice this during the years of 2017-2019, but I never actually saw the First XV training. All of a sudden, it was like I would see them training every single morning in the Grant Centre when 2020 rolled around. 2020 was still not a favourable year in terms of results, but with the benefit of retrospect, it was the year that the system completely changed to start the rebuild. Crucially, David Mason-Jones was appointed MIC of Rugby. To this day, he is brilliant.
2021 then rolled around. I was in Year 11, so my year group now found themselves in the open age group. Before the season was cut short due to COVID, our 3rd XV was incredibly dominant, mostly featuring players from my year. The 2nd XV was also very successful. The 1st XV, however, still had work to do. They weren't able to notch a win, but the effects of the restructured Rugby program were starting to show in the fact that scores were now something like 35 - 20 in favour of the opposition. A stark difference from the 80 - 0 that was not uncommon in years prior.
It was at this point that I became interested in the GPS competition. Perhaps because my friends were coming into the First XV. I have always been an avid Rugby fan, though.
So then came 2022. This was the year that Shore put themselves back on the map. What a season it was.
The 2022 squad had brilliant success in the trial matches, the school could sense something special was building here. The hype and culture around sport at Shore shifted, quite shockingly, from Rowing to Rugby. Crowds were large, chants were loud and the team was winning.
Players like Jackson Stiel, Leo Bassingthwaighte (brother of Rex Bassingthwaighte) and a 15-year-old Marshall Le Maitre made themselves household names in the competition.
That year, I attended every single match. Shore had their best result against Joeys in years (granted they still lost by 12 points 12-24), fell agonisingly short against Kings (20-19), beat Riverview on Old Boys Day (32-29), beat Newington at Stanmore right on the bell (27-29) and beat Scots at Bellevue Hill courtesy of the best drop goal I've ever witnessed by Daimon "Nudge" Pin (24-27). Shore ended up finishing equal 2nd with Newington that year.
I graduated that year, looking forward to seeing future Shore teams build off the legacy that the 2022 team established.
Granted, 2023 was a lull year with lacklustre results. The year below mine weren't as strong as we were.
However, if you look at the younger age groups, you can see the effects of the radically changed Rugby program displayed in the results. The school have focused on creating pathways and systems for the younger years to ensure success when they reach their senior years.
And then we have season 2024, where Shore have won the competition. Considering 2022 was the year where Shore achieved their first win in six years, this is a remarkably rapid turnaround.
My only criticism is that I wish it happened sooner.
Every Thursday morning after period 2 finished, assembly would commence either in the War Memorial Hall or the School Quad, depending on the availability of the hall. From 2017 to 2019, I wasn't interested in the GPS Rugby competition whatsoever. I did not attend any games, nor did I pay attention to any results. Despite this, I became accustomed to the weekly announcement of how much our First XV had been beaten by the previous weekend.
Despite this, the culture and support were still there, reflected by the cheer captains every single year. They were the highlight of assembly every week.
A quote I vividly remember from the cheer captains of 2019:
"Boys make sure you're at Northbridge this Saturday, 3:15pm, massive game against Scots. I think soccer is on at 1... or something? Anyway, make sure you're at the footy."
If you asked Year 9 me, in 2019, to name a single First XV player or else I'd get shot, I'd have had ten bullets in my head.
Despite my lack of interest, I still knew that the problems with Shore Rugby stemmed from matters outside the team. Dr Timothy Wright, Headmaster of Shore from 2003 to 2019, disagreed with the direction that other GPS schools were taking in their approach to their Rugby programs. This included the way players were trained and also coaching, both personnel and coaching styles.
Dr Wright left at the end of 2019 and was replaced by Dr Timothy Petterson in 2020. Dr Petterson's arrival coincided with the opening of the R A I Grant Centre, a state-of-the-art sports and training facility that is far superior to anything that other GPS schools have at the moment. Along with this, the rugby program underwent massive reform under Dr Petterson's leadership. The MIC of Rugby resigned and new coaching staff were brought in to start building Shore Rugby from the bottom up, not the top down. The results of this system are now being reflected today. My year group was the strongest the school had seen for a number of years and had been since the U13s. I remember having conversations with people who had attended other GPS schools who genuinely thought that Shore would win the title in 2022, the year we reached Year 12.
I didn't notice this during the years of 2017-2019, but I never actually saw the First XV training. All of a sudden, it was like I would see them training every single morning in the Grant Centre when 2020 rolled around. 2020 was still not a favourable year in terms of results, but with the benefit of retrospect, it was the year that the system completely changed to start the rebuild. Crucially, David Mason-Jones was appointed MIC of Rugby. To this day, he is brilliant.
2021 then rolled around. I was in Year 11, so my year group now found themselves in the open age group. Before the season was cut short due to COVID, our 3rd XV was incredibly dominant, mostly featuring players from my year. The 2nd XV was also very successful. The 1st XV, however, still had work to do. They weren't able to notch a win, but the effects of the restructured Rugby program were starting to show in the fact that scores were now something like 35 - 20 in favour of the opposition. A stark difference from the 80 - 0 that was not uncommon in years prior.
It was at this point that I became interested in the GPS competition. Perhaps because my friends were coming into the First XV. I have always been an avid Rugby fan, though.
So then came 2022. This was the year that Shore put themselves back on the map. What a season it was.
The 2022 squad had brilliant success in the trial matches, the school could sense something special was building here. The hype and culture around sport at Shore shifted, quite shockingly, from Rowing to Rugby. Crowds were large, chants were loud and the team was winning.
Players like Jackson Stiel, Leo Bassingthwaighte (brother of Rex Bassingthwaighte) and a 15-year-old Marshall Le Maitre made themselves household names in the competition.
That year, I attended every single match. Shore had their best result against Joeys in years (granted they still lost by 12 points 12-24), fell agonisingly short against Kings (20-19), beat Riverview on Old Boys Day (32-29), beat Newington at Stanmore right on the bell (27-29) and beat Scots at Bellevue Hill courtesy of the best drop goal I've ever witnessed by Daimon "Nudge" Pin (24-27). Shore ended up finishing equal 2nd with Newington that year.
I graduated that year, looking forward to seeing future Shore teams build off the legacy that the 2022 team established.
Granted, 2023 was a lull year with lacklustre results. The year below mine weren't as strong as we were.
However, if you look at the younger age groups, you can see the effects of the radically changed Rugby program displayed in the results. The school have focused on creating pathways and systems for the younger years to ensure success when they reach their senior years.
And then we have season 2024, where Shore have won the competition. Considering 2022 was the year where Shore achieved their first win in six years, this is a remarkably rapid turnaround.
My only criticism is that I wish it happened sooner.
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Herbert Moran (7)
Out of the Scots camp, Brial out this weekend with ankle injury from awkward tackle on Saturday.
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