NSW AAGPS 2025 (banter and commentary)

[PickandDriveThru80]

It will be interesting to see the Kings away crowds. The last few years has certainly been a decline for their away crowd. Hopefully the boys from Parramatta can fix this up and compete with the other schools in away games.

 

[FrontLifter101]

Personally, i don't see Joeys "obviously" at the top. As it is compulsory for the boys from Joeys to go out to the games, i would expect them to be way louder than they are moving them down the rank to 2nd. I must say though i like there new "footy" chant. My revised list is as follows:

1. Shore (always coming up with new chants, bring strong culture everywhere they go)
2. View/Joeys (similar to shore, they are always bringing the culture. More so view, than Joeys. Joeys only in second because the amount of boys they bring.
3. Scots (same chant every year, time to change it up)
4. King (only good thing is their cheer captain, the rest of the crowd is dead)
5. Newington (obviously)

 

[RUCK YEAH]

Completely agree

View at home can put up numbers but with a lack of tikka I found it hard to rank them above Scots.

Shore and Scots very hard to put one over the other.

Ruck Yeah Out

 

[RUCK YEAH]

Don't have a team list as it's only Monday but with a few back rowers out looks like either Lucas Large or Dan Ibrahim will get the call up. Keep in mind they both got a run on the weekend. Exciting to see who they pick against the Iggies boys this weekend.

Ruck Yeah out

 

[twister29]

Disappointed when watching Streamer replays to hear the borrowing of chants and warcries. I do appreciate that it is hard to create new chants and it it’s important/necessary to draw from the chants of sports teams and schools outside of the GPS.

However, it is important to have respect and acknowledge the creativity, devotion and effort put into these chants by boys. Boys are taking the dedication and innovation of other schools, and simply inserting their schools name. I do not appreciate this. It takes away from a lot of the point of warcries and school culture, often voiding the original school from being able to do their chant because ‘everyone is doing it’ and it is not their own any more.

A specific example of this is a chant from Shore that I saw created and developed over the course of last season. I was very happy to see this creativity in the art of warcries and did not hear anything similar from any other school before, during or after. Until the TKS replay from Saturday.

Just some thoughts.

Twister.

 

[Phil07]

Gents,
Unfortunately I can't provide a full team list as its too early in the week. I have however knowledge from Scots sources at some changes to the 1st XV lineup. Number 7 Cooper Guerin is set to be replaced by Michael O'connell due to his dislocated shoulder. Also Lemoto suffered a Labral tear to his right shoulder and is out for at least three weeks, set to be replaced by Dubbo's biggest rig Lucas Large.
Cheers
Phil

 

[twister29]

Someone serious please confirm Lemoto’s status. They tried to pull this one last week as well.

 

[Rookie21]

How did the Shore cheer squad go yesterday? Notoriously difficult to get out to Bellevue Hill but some great Newboys went from Stanmors to Hunters Hill

Was right next to them. Loud and proud they were.

 

[NedKelly]

I was also close by. The booing during kicks - and jeering when they were missed - was regular. And these are not 'any rugby events in the world', they are GPS games where absolute silence during kicks is expected. The New boys know this as well as anyone. Better to stop making excuses for it and just let it be known it's not acceptable and should not happen again.

 

[The Front Rower]

Someone serious please confirm Lemoto’s status. They tried to pull this one last week as well.

We will find out Thursday 5pm when final team lists come out.

 

[Xavier_Breslin]

Does anyone have a report on the Scots number 5 with his supposed suspension?

 

[bomber06]

It was serious enough for a medicab to be rolled out. The booing did absolutely start from then. Feel free to watch the replay on streamer if you need to be assured. The first 2 kicks by the joey's kicker - no booing. New kid went down with about 10-15 to go in the first half and wasn't moving for about 2 minutes. In that time Joeys score, that is when the first boos happened. I was standing right next to the New contingent so I feel well qualified to query your incorrect assertions - and the replay will confirm what actually happened. Please don't make things up. Should the booing have happened? No. And the Sportsmaster did speak to the kids at half time and they didn't boo after - there were unfortunately a few old boys towards the end though who made some noise for the last couple of Joeys kicks. Whilst we are talking about the match - the Joey supporter/lout yelling out at the top of his lungs when the new kicker missed his only conversion at the end of the first half wasn't great either.....

 

[footyhead1]

Julian Minto is a freak. Lots of Max Jorgensen about him

 

[bomber06]

His try in the 2nd half was crazy good. Only found out after the game he could be in 16s! Plays above his weight

 

[Flak]

Can confirm this as I have insider knowledge on the scots teams. Fullback O Large is set to be replaced by Narromine local Tom Dennis due to a Hip flexor tear. Dennis will look to play eyes up footy and use his speed and size.

 

[bomber06]

Do the team lists get released anywhere for all the sides? At Newington they used to release team lists last year for all grades, but they dont seem to be doing it this year - but not sure if the opens teams need to be released somewhere.

 

[RuckReporter]

Likewise RY, will try to keep the reports going throughout the season.

 

[Forwardpack101]

Just seen on instagram the shot Heamasi Makasini put on on the weekend. Wow

 

[Joker]

Are we still on about who cheers the loudest?

 

[bomber06]

The Joeys 4 was certainly rattled. He got carded a few minutes later. I think he used that time to get some wind back into him! He isn't the biggest lock I've seen but certainly rips in and plays above his weight.