QLD GPS 2024
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The Blin6side
Darby Loudon (17)
Gentlemen, the men in Gold and Blue have fallen… I’m leaving the old boys association effective immediately. Jokes. Gold and Blue till I die… Cmon TGS fire up!
Farcical from Australian rugby again with a team being rewarded with penalties whilst getting dominated. GPS rugby live feed also very poor with late starting coverage, scores not adding up eg Terrace score a converted try and noted as 2 points on their score count. Wallabies of course not worth watching. Oh Australian rugby, please lift your game
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All won by Nudgee. Most games were
Great round of Rugby
TTS 23 - BSHS 29. BSHS has managed a tough task overcoming TSS at shark park and they continue to remain premiership favourites, with Giant Killing reputation growing each week. I said it would be close.
BGS 12 TGS 47. As I mentioned I saw TGS start to hit form last weekend at T'bar. and they dismantled a BGS team that never gave up. TGS maybe a real handful for those teams left to play them.
ACGS 17 - BBC 36. Churchie shell shocked BBC early with some stunning trys, but BBC were able shake off the punch to the Jaw and did what they needed to win decisively . I cannot say they are as well drilled and mistake free as I would like to see, but they have star players with Athletes that can pull them out of a fire when the chips are down. Teams playing them will want to play the full 70 minutes or risk BBC racking up late points. They were slow starters, but when they got their confidence, they showed they are premiership material.
GT 12 -Nudgee 25. GT certainly took the game to Nudgee and as an independent observer ( watching from Ross with the Groundsman), apart from two Bang- Bang Nudgee trys from their backs, there was nothing in it and Nudgee didn't appear to get completely on top of Terrace. Nudgee has a bye next week and the ice baths will be used overtime. Nudgee certainly hasn't learnt their lessons with regard to ref management aka Team discipline. This is the decline I refer to and the coaches need to sort it - or lose the premiership. I wish the Terrace Lad playing 12 a quick recovery from what look as nasty leg injury.
So we appear to be NUDGEE , BBC BSHS as the short List
Final Table as I see it in three bunches
1.BSHS,NUDGEE, BBC
4 IGS, TSS,Churchie and GT
5 BGS, TGS
So what will be the final order.My shot at it.....
1.BSHS
2 NUDGEE
3 BBC
4.TSS
5.IGS
6 CHURCHIE
7 GT
8 TGS
9 BGS
Thoughts?
TTS 23 - BSHS 29. BSHS has managed a tough task overcoming TSS at shark park and they continue to remain premiership favourites, with Giant Killing reputation growing each week. I said it would be close.
BGS 12 TGS 47. As I mentioned I saw TGS start to hit form last weekend at T'bar. and they dismantled a BGS team that never gave up. TGS maybe a real handful for those teams left to play them.
ACGS 17 - BBC 36. Churchie shell shocked BBC early with some stunning trys, but BBC were able shake off the punch to the Jaw and did what they needed to win decisively . I cannot say they are as well drilled and mistake free as I would like to see, but they have star players with Athletes that can pull them out of a fire when the chips are down. Teams playing them will want to play the full 70 minutes or risk BBC racking up late points. They were slow starters, but when they got their confidence, they showed they are premiership material.
GT 12 -Nudgee 25. GT certainly took the game to Nudgee and as an independent observer ( watching from Ross with the Groundsman), apart from two Bang- Bang Nudgee trys from their backs, there was nothing in it and Nudgee didn't appear to get completely on top of Terrace. Nudgee has a bye next week and the ice baths will be used overtime. Nudgee certainly hasn't learnt their lessons with regard to ref management aka Team discipline. This is the decline I refer to and the coaches need to sort it - or lose the premiership. I wish the Terrace Lad playing 12 a quick recovery from what look as nasty leg injury.
So we appear to be NUDGEE , BBC BSHS as the short List
Final Table as I see it in three bunches
1.BSHS,NUDGEE, BBC
4 IGS, TSS,Churchie and GT
5 BGS, TGS
So what will be the final order.My shot at it.....
1.BSHS
2 NUDGEE
3 BBC
4.TSS
5.IGS
6 CHURCHIE
7 GT
8 TGS
9 BGS
Thoughts?
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The Adjudicator
Frank Nicholson (4)
All senior rugby games were adjusted for the Wallabies, GPS games could have easily been rescheduled to a 12:30 kick off to avoid a clash. Doesn’t surprise anyone that the private school chest beating competition had no interest in changing.
Brian O’Driscoll
Chris McKivat (8)
GPS couldn’t reschedule with so many teams playing
Nudgee vs Terrace means boys would have started at 5am.
The wallabies suck. Much better atmosphere and rugby at Tennyson today.
Nudgee haven’t learned to not dominate the scrum, the breakdown and the rolling mauls and to get the rewards rather than…it’s the same ref as the one at the Churchie game who everyone was complaining about who kept pinning Nudgee whenever they were in a dominant position… “Deidre Chambers…what a coincidence”! It’s comical how it’s the only two times this has happened and not during the trial season, not whilst hosting the visiting teams from Sydney, England and New Zealand and not during other GPS matches where they piled on cricket scores. And we all wonder why Australian rugby is in such a mess. Lift your game Australian rugby and lift it high.
Australian rugby (run by the Sydney Shore mafia as they are known) was playing in their client base heartland ie Queensland, which is a significant stakeholder in Australian rugby, and they decide to play the game at the same time as the GPS rugby!!? It’s absolutely extraordinary how poor this is a decision. It’s like owning a restaurant and only opening between the hours of 4pm and 6pm when your customers will be doing something else. Poor judgment. The sport of rugby is flourishing across the world but is dying in Australia, and Australia only, and its because of consistently stupidity like this and such decisions must be reviewed and people held accountable. My mates and I all are scratching their heads at the circus that is Australia rugby organisational decision making. Learn how to add up on a score board, show the GPS games before the game has started, reward positive, dominant play, play test matches in Brisbane, and not during the GPS rugby matches, take up some space in the Courier Mail to compete with women’s Olympic rap dancing, male female (?) boxing, and women’s AFL, learn the traditions and rituals of club and school rugby, change the commentary at the Wallabies to rugby union style conversations and not like it’s the Bathurst 1000 or the AFL etc etc etc. It’s truly mind boggling how poor the decisions are.
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Brian O’Driscoll
Chris McKivat (8)
Cheap shots?? You must of been watching a different game. Terraces game plan was to target him and that failed miserably. When teams plan to target one player they seem to forget about the other 14 on the field.
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Agree. Why start the game early afternoon? Rugby Australia needs to have a good hard look at its self. Rugby is dying. They are not building a bigger fan base and are not getting more children interested in it. Rugby League is circling and circling the GPS competitions of QLD and NSW with more vigour than ever before.
outsidechance
Bob McCowan (2)
Not all, most country rugby still kicked off at 3ish.
From a commercial perspective tv ratings matter, a lot. Who watches test matches Rugby players and fans.... so I know a great idea - let's throw a test on when a large majority of those actually involved in clubs/schools today are busy. Is this how you commercialise the game ? NO !
How about 4:30 or 5pm kick off and then let clubs/schools etc host functions/bbqs etc after their games ... connecting grassroots to the Wallabies.
Also move a GPS game to Suncorp as a curtain raiser, even throw it on live tv. Having played such a game at Parramatta Stadium many MANY years ago in the NRL Schoolboys cup .... we still talk about how amazing that was.
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They egged his family home the night before also. Poor old Terrace trying way to hard to fit in…