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Jim Clark (26)
Write NC off at your own peril Realdeal. If any school has the depth to pull it off, It's the Butcher Boys.NC today 13; 15 and 1 out for next week.with there best moseley out as well then they are gone ..
Write NC off at your own peril Realdeal. If any school has the depth to pull it off, It's the Butcher Boys.NC today 13; 15 and 1 out for next week.with there best moseley out as well then they are gone ..
Guru do you have a team list from yesterday? Keen to see who played 2 - what is injury to younger Farrell who plays 2?
King reasonable analysis of the two teams mate but I can vouch that TSS side play as a team and that counts for main than player ratings - what's the logic behind the BBC call? They lose to TSS technically by virtue of an unlucky call then beat TGS at TGS with 7 down and they're gone???
GSP
i have not seen this boy Yanopa play. is he another one from PNG to go to BBC through the will Genia program up there ?
Gone because they need Nudgee, TSS and Churchie ALL to drop a game.
I can see BBC beating one of their remaining two undefeated teams, but I can't see a situation where NC + TSS + ACGS all drop a game or more.
Churchie just dispatched BSHS 39-0, one week after State High pushed Toowoomba to the wire at home. We saw Toowoomba come within 6-points of BBC one week later at the same venue.
I know it's not how it works, but if BBC were close with Toowoomba, who were close with BSHS, then BBC and BSHS are roughly on par.
Especially (!) if BBC's shallow depth is tested any more than it has been already, Churchie will be safe.
Now please don't interpret my point as Churchie will flog them, I'm *definitely* not saying Churchie will beat BBC 39-0; but I think a 12 or 13 point win is to be expected.
Churchie host Toowoomba next week in a game that could either begin to confirm my premiership predictions, or scrap them entirely.
BBC may still finish top-3, but a premiership is off the cards IMO
My ladder prediction as of Round 3
1. ACGS
= TSS
3. NC
BBC
TGS
GT
IGS
BGS
BSHS
Sorry for shitty structuring of my thoughts, I'm on my phone with one eye on the Premier Colts final #UpHeavies
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I think people are putting too much focus on Riley. TSS play well as a team and they have been fortunate enough not to have too many lingering injuries. This weekend's game proved that good passing out wide can produce tries with the reserve winger (TSS 2nd's) scoring 3 tries.To beat TSS you have to stop Riley and Sua appears the only one that can. Ikatu did -but got injured.TSS and ACGS had a great run with injuries . I understand they both ran their number 1 teams on yesterday. If it does become an issue i expect TSS 2 nds to be undefeated for the 4 th time in last 5 years.
I think the BSHS u/14 A's nearly got to 50 against Churchie as well. The problem is that the Churchie 1st 15 didn't attend the school until they got their scholarships in grade 11 or 12. You can't tell me the Quade Copper attended Churchie from these early years. For that matter, you can't tell me that his family actually paid anything for him to attend the school. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those scholarship holders actually go home after term 3 and don't even finish off at Churchie. So the other schools can build a strong junior rugby program, which given all of the scores against BSHS today, Churchie obviously don't. This won't impact on the Churchie first 15 at all.
After watching Churchie yesterday I'm going to jump on the bandwagon.
I think BBC are done, Nudgee will have an uphill battle (at what point does Calvin Pritchard step in to save the First XV?) and Toowoomba just haven't got the pieces in play this year (not that they won't next year)
Which leaves TSS and Churchie to duke it out for the Premiership.
Wagner > Day
Williams > McElroy
Kuchel > Ball
Hockings > Rudland
Whitehead ? Blyth
Henry Sharp < Tipene Mavoa
James McMillan < Angus Allen
Sam Wallis = Emry Pere
Oberholzer < Lenac
Croft > Campbell
Joel Papas > Hayden Sergeant
Jayden Su'a > Jai Whitbread
Tristan Stanghorn < Dylan Riley
Fraser Suffren ? Noah Lolesio
Jake Mason > Dowd
That's 8 positions to Churchie, five to TSS and two that will be decided when they play each other.
TSS may still be the favourites purely because Churchie have got a nightmare four-weeks to come, but I hope Churchie get it done this year.
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Well, the tips are safe for another week :'(
It's always impressive how some posters know every detail of every 1st XV team, how long they've been at every school, and so forth.
As a man of more limited knowledge, my job is solely to guide and assist onto an even higher plane the experts who speak with such conviction and certainty.
Let's refine this superior insight as highlighted above with a small factual test that will hone the talent already present:
How many of the current Churchie Ist XV have been at the school for much of their senior Y7-Y12 years, and some even more? Multiple choice, there is only one correct answer:
(a) 0 (bear has told us this above)
(b) 4
(c ) 6
(d) 11
Once I have bear's and other knowledgeable posters' 'input of conviction', I will post the correct answer.
They also only just beat GT by 2.My dear King
You are probably right, you usually are. but could you add this to your theory: BBC with 2 stars out beat IGS by 14 . ACGS squeaked past IGS by 4?
A couple of things are clear:
1) TSS and ACGS appear to be injury free and have a great draw and a reasonable draw respectively;
2) NC and BBC have loads of injuries and have a tough draw and a shit draw respectively;
In the end I actually agree with you.