2. NOT HAVING BOARDERS
GT are also at a great disadvantage as they do not have a boarding program at the school.
Terrace does have a boarding programme and it's called Nudgee College. We are both St. Josephs, founded by Ambrose Treacy and we also have the Indooroopilly campus which is named now after Treacy, and its also the name of main building at Nudgee College which was for most of its history the boarding house, including the boarding house for the Terrace boys early in its history.
Plenty of families cross pollenate across Nudgee, Terrace and Ambrose Treacy and if you look at these three Ambrose Treacy institutions, they really are the heart of Queensland rugby.
Terrace also has superb playing fields at Tennyson, links into an old boy network of past and present Wallabies and a culture of rugby spanning back generations.
Terrace, Nudgee and Treacy to the rugby Fore!
Ok mate, you are quite obviously either a big Nudgee supporter or a huge GT hater...
Well Nudgee pulls about an 85 average ATAR which puts it in the top 5% of academic performers in the state, so hardly a low achiever and pretty much the same as BBC, TSS, TGS, IGS, Ashgrove etc etc. They are good at everything and Terrace seems to be a bit of a one trick pony i.e. a lot of nerdy boys who end up in beta positions in life supporting us alpha guys.
The Terrace chip on the shoulder/inferiority complex is a GPS tradition as old as any other GPS traditions. We love it. Missed out academically on Grammar and missed out sportingly on Nudgee.
We love you Terrace, keep your chin up!