CliffoXXXX
Bob McCowan (2)
I'll tell ya for free when you spot a deck of winnies coming out with the reinforcements it gets ya goin.
Cheers, Cliffo.4.X.
QLD GPS 2025
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Cheers, Cliffo.4.X.
WHACKO_JACKO.GT
Larry Dwyer (12)
Alright buddy we get you like your beers ok, but this is a forum for all. Meaning young people are in this chat. They don't need to be victimised by you talking about it ok?
Although i do love a Gold ehehehehehe
john.carter442
Peter Burge (5)
Hey mate, as much as I love watching some good footy, this is a GPS forum, so let's stick to that ayeHey mate,
I've just been informed this is for an u20s competition taking place in Italy. Is that correct? If so, where could one stream this event. Might even head over to watch ! If my husband let's me
JC
(You can watch it on stan)
CliffoXXXX
Bob McCowan (2)
WHACKO_JACKO.GT
Larry Dwyer (12)
What is wrong with rugby league mate? Boys choose their pathways, and league is a great pathway. People make their own choices, and you should support that.
charlieocconel46
Frank Row (1)
It is where the U20 world cup is btw chap. Johneh will be reppin the G&G don't you worry bout that.
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Frank Nicholson (4)
Lets just get back on topic to GPS footy alright lads - as QTT said, enough dribble. Who do we recon takes game of the round this week.
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Quick_Tap_Tony
Alfred Walker (16)
Howarth is not the second best schoolboy ever sorry. These are my top 3 AUS schoolboy rugby players ever.
1 - Kaylen Ponga (ACGS)
2 - Angus Crichton (Scots)
3 - Max Jorgenson (SJC)
4 - Kurtley Beale (SJC)
5 - Curtis Browning (BSHS)
HM - Billy Smith (Scots)
john.carter442
Peter Burge (5)
any news on the TGS fullback Myles Rosemond? heard he got knocked out on the weekend
can anyone confirm.
JC
can anyone confirm.
JC
Quick_Tap_Tony
Alfred Walker (16)
The Tale of Harry Hockings (All time favourite GPS player)
In the January heat of 2014, Harry Hockings was nobody’s pick. He was stuck in the 16Bs playing on the wing, a position that suited him about as well as ballet slippers on a bull. He was tall, awkward, and built like a garden rake. Most people assumed he was just there to bring the oranges. But something snapped in him that preseason. Harry got tired of being the "tall bloke who doesn’t hit rucks," so he made a decision. He threw his asthma puffer in the bin, tore up his Netball Queensland membership, and moved into the Churchie gym. Literally. He brought in a swag and started sleeping under the squat rack. His bench press was so violent it made it look like he was trying to hurt the bar. He ate like a machine — steak and rice at recess, peanut butter straight from the jar, whole lasagnas after class. He sweated through his school uniform by Period 2 most days and once blacked out mid-deadlift just to wake up, shake it off, and do another set. In 25 weeks, Harry stacked on 30kg of lean muscle. Coaches started calling him “The Concrete Giraffe.” His skin was constantly red from how hard he trained—he sweat like a busted tap and was often seen pushing a sled around in the sun until he looked like he'd been baptized in battery acid. Still, no one expected him to make the First XV. That was until the final trial, when Harry put on a performance so violent it should’ve come with a warning label. He made 30 tackles, three line breaks, and rumbled over four defenders in a single run like a runaway fridge on wheels. The selectors looked at each other and wrote his name down with shaky hands. Harry Hockings had forced his way in.
The season rolled on and Churchie dominated. Every paper, blog, and post talked about Kalyn Ponga — his footwork, his flair, his freakish ability to make defenders quit mid-play. Meanwhile, Harry Hockings was buried in the engine room, doing the hard stuff. No highlights, no interviews, just head tape, hit ups, and bruises. His teammates called him "The Boiler Room" because he was always steaming, silent, and impossible to shut down. He was the bloke making 15 tackles a game, blowing out scrums, and cleaning rucks so hard he left divots in the turf. Then, the night before the final game, everything went sideways. Harry came down with some kind of violent stomach bug and spent the night in bed shaking and throwing up like a busted hose. The team doctor ruled him out. But at 11:15 in the morning (3 hours before kick-off), white as a sheet and running on fumes, Harry drove himself to the ground in his battered Hilux, listening to Midnight Oil through the one working speaker. He walked into the sheds, looked his coach dead in the eye and said, “If I die, bury me on the try line.” That afternoon, he played his finest game. He made 20 tackles, stole lineouts, and carried defenders on his back like oversized backpacks. By half time he had no working limbs—just pure heart and desperation. He coughed blood, spat it out, and kept playing. When the final whistle blew and Churchie went undefeated, the cameras chased Ponga. But inside the sheds, the boys hoisted Harry onto their shoulders. They knew. He wasn’t flashy, but he was tough. He wasn’t gifted, but he was built. A bloke who made himself through pain, steel, and sheer bloody-mindedness. From 16B winger to Churchie’s iron heartbeat — Harry Hockings had earned his legend.
Orange_Backpack_Guy
Bob McCowan (2)
JJ. nothing against you darlin. But I think from purely looking at the reactions on your comment. Might be time for you to take break from the forum today. hehe
OBG
Wicked Left Foot
Herbert Moran (7)
Nope. He didn't get knocked out.
john.carter442
Peter Burge (5)
yea thanks mate just my son was down there at the game and he told me that.
JC
Dennissmith8765
Peter Burge (5)
With all the talk of Rugby league and players going there rather than union, what are some ideas on keeping more players in the great game of rugby union rather than nuturing player just to hand them off to NRL teams once they graduate.
john.carter442
Peter Burge (5)
Footyfootyfooty
Frank Nicholson (4)
Orange_Backpack_Guy
Bob McCowan (2)
Jackal Julie. enough is enough. The only dribble is your useless and unwanted comments. If the 'cheap laughs' is majority of the current forum that clearly dislike you then I would keep my mouth shut. Don't make me take this out into the real world. hehe .
OBG
Dennissmith8765
Peter Burge (5)
Mate personally i think there needs to be a Super Rugby AU competition that isnt playing against the NZ teams. Either you keep the 4 teams playing as they are and start up a whole other compeition that plays under them as the League has "feader teams" this way their is more oppurtunity to play or to take the 4 teams out and add more teams around them and play in their own comp. Look this wont fix it straight away and I know that but there needs to be more oppurtunities to play Rugby in Australia at a top level. Hard to compete with 16 Australian based NRL teams.
Interested to hear what other think because im sick of nuturing these great players in the GPS for them not to go on with rugby!!!
Wicked Left Foot
Herbert Moran (7)
I think it comes down to the recruitment of teams in the Capital City Comps such Hospital Cup and the Shute Shield. Unfortunately if these young players are looking for where they go next in a Super Rugby Team, there are only four of these in Australia, compared to 17 NRL sides, soon to be 19. There are not enough "spots" available in the national rugby teams. It is the club sides that need to recruit and nurture these guys, but this has to come with support.
Ankle_tap_Albo
Herbert Moran (7)
I once got a lecture about getting cheap laughs. It did not go down well.
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