NSW CAS Rugby 2021

[Des Hasler]

Gents, seems like a continual trend - Barker bending the rules for their own favour. First with the headgear / mic incident (2019) and now this... The primary role of the school should be to promote the safety and wellbeing of their players however this seems to have been compromised for their own sporting ambitions. Time to take off your red glasses @RodSkellet, the jury is out. Perhaps a royal commission? This behaviour can go on no longer! Thank god Rugby Au has gotten their teeth into this, would hate for the slack-smith boy to suffer long term head issues due to the negligence of his school.

On a more positive note, this game is shaping up to be a cracker!

Dessy

 

[MagicMike]

Waves now has 6/8 of the pack - Ethan H subbed on

 

[MagicMike]

Knox backs keep turning it over

 

[MagicMike]

GPS relentless…like those mice out bush

 

[MagicMike]

That was a try to King on the replay

 

[MagicMike]

Have they seriously put Jack Black on?

 

[FoleyBealeFolau]

would've been an easier kick aswell

 

[MagicMike]

Knox 13 kicks it away with a minute to go

 

[MagicMike]

Ball in hand boys

 

[Hector]

I couldn't disagree more. For three reasons: first, a dominant scrum can win tight heads, and secondly, even with pushing to 1.5m you can seriously disrupt the quality of possession the team with the loose head obtains. There's an enormous difference between clean ball from a channel of your choice and messy ball squirting out the side of a splintering scrum. You can attack with one, whilst the other has you scrambling to regroup. Thirdly, of course, a dominant scrum tends to win penalties.

Mind you, I played at Sydney University in the 1980s, where the scrum was a religion. I remember one night at scrum training (1sts v 2nds), the scrum kept moving a foot sideways and no-one could figure out why. By the time we packed the last scrum of the night there were about twenty scrum doctors looking at it trying to work out what was happening. We always knew we gave away size and weight to the other sides we played, so technique was everything.

That second half CAS penalty where they opted for the scrum, 5m out from the GPS line, when the score was 5-12, that resulted in a GPS tight head, would be exhibit A to this comment.

 

[RonnyGibbs]

Flavio, I'm happy to report that the bbq will be working hard tonight at Knox 1

Will you be serving humble pie?

 

[Snort]

That second half CAS penalty where they opted for the scrum, 5m out from the GPS line, when the score was 5-12, that resulted in a GPS tight head, would be exhibit A to this comment.

Yes: and that was a triumph of technique too, because CAS had the bigger pack.

 

[Snort]

Well, GPS deserved it: they ran harder and straighter and with great determination, and they defended well. My man of the match, by a mile, was the GPS 15, who I guess was Jorgensen - what a game he played.

We'll never know what would have happened if the try had been given to King (it looked fair to me), but that's life. CAS just didn't make the most of their chances, and the GPS forwards never let them get on top.

Serious question: if King was playing 8, why wasn't Slack-Smith there?

 

[aussiefooty]

Well, GPS deserved it: they ran harder and straighter and with great determination, and they defended well. My man of the match, by a mile, was the GPS 15, who I guess was Jorgensen - what a game he played.

We'll never know what would have happened if the try had been given to King (it looked fair to me), but that's life. CAS just didn't make the most of their chances, and the GPS forwards never let them get on top.

Serious question: if King was playing 8, why wasn't Slack-Smith there?

I think you can guess why Slack - Smith wasn't there. Some sook on the GPS thread took up a complaint with the ARU regarding his blue card which he was medically cleared from.

 

[Snort]

I think you can guess why Slack - Smith wasn't there. Some sook on the GPS thread took up a complaint with the ARU regarding his blue card which he was medically cleared from.

Well, anyone can guess, but does anyone actually know?

 

[WLF]

Well, GPS deserved it: they ran harder and straighter and with great determination, and they defended well. My man of the match, by a mile, was the GPS 15, who I guess was Jorgensen - what a game he played.

We'll never know what would have happened if the try had been given to King (it looked fair to me), but that's life. CAS just didn't make the most of their chances, and the GPS forwards never let them get on top.

Serious question: if King was playing 8, why wasn't Slack-Smith there?

Yep couldn't agree more Snort, GPS deserved to win.

They took their chances, handled the wet better, and played better wet weather footy.
CAS bombed several tries and I think the wet weather actually stuffed our forwards running game.

I made a point when this team got picked that a number of selections were poor.
It's not the boys fault, the selectors need the bullet.
Our scrum was disgraceful early, we lost 4 tight heads, it was supposed to be the other way around, but we didn't pick either of the 2 best set piece front rows, thus was the result, and it appeared to take us a lot of time to get our mojo back.

The GPS 15, Yes Jorgensen was superb, boy what a player.

Unfortunately IMO the weather destroyed this game for both sides, not sure why we can't play it on a Sat afternoon rather than at night, like it used to be, a la this Sat as there is nothing on but school is still in.

Congrats to the GPS.

 

[THP3]

Have they seriously put Jack Black on?

I believe CAS 2nds won at least 2 tight heads when Jack Black was on and CAS 1sts lost at least 3 tight heads when he wasn’t on.

 

[Running_rugby_1954]

Well, anyone can guess, but does anyone actually know?

He was given a blue card. Rugby Aus stepped in and said he couldn’t play because you have to wait 19 days. Despite Rod’s best efforts to say otherwise, Barker did not do the right thing at all in this instance.

Barker and the head of CAS should be held accountable for what happened this evening as a result of the way this situation was handled and the lack of care shown for the student and the significant impact it had on the CAS teams as a result.

I imagine St Aloysius will also have something to say about it as well as he should not have been in the game last week.

 

[WLF]

Still stand by this Rod?

Heard you may be wrong mate and Aus Rugby have taken significant action as a result. Barker should be held to account for this. Ned was not cleared to play against St Aloysius, so shouldn’t the points be taken off then for that game as well?

RR, I agree completely that every boy's best interest is absolutely priority no 1. Full stop.

Clearly I have no idea what happened here, but I do think you have made your point, but NO Barker should not have their points from last week taken away. That would effect ALL the Barker boys in the 1sts, and that is overkill, and I am not a Barker supporter, trust me, feel free to ask other G&G posters to back me up here.

Maybe the school hierarchy has something it needs do, but never the boys!

Hopefully it's a lesson going forward for everyone.

July 17 at Barker will happen soon, and the best team WILL win, from the East!

 

[Hasbeen]

Watched the game on cluch. To say the GPS played better in the set pieces is a bit of a cliche but was demonstrated last night. The GPS no 15 was quite a Guy on the evening and the GPS backline was outstanding given the mongrel conditions. Quite a game for all that and thanks to the Boys from both teams for the tenancity and the show. The CAS forwards seemed a bit sluggish and I noticed a few missed tackles here and there by the big fellows which was a bit odd. The conditions were atrocious but would have been fun to play in eh. Just like the old days when rain and mud were played in and you could half drown down the bottom of the ruck and precious school and council grounds men did not exist.