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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Nope - I'm taking credit for Smith: he played 12 in a team I helped with last year.
Sure, we didn't train but the few pre-match and half time talks I did made all the difference.
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Nope - I'm taking credit for Smith: he played 12 in a team I helped with last year.
Sure, we didn't train but the few pre-match and half time talks I did made all the difference.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
Just trying to lighten things up - see rising temp below!
Anyway, you have to admit that discussing the role of roosters by analogy with the "chicken and egg scenario" is potentially confusing, particularly to younger readers
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Bill Watson (15)
Why thank you, narky comment noted. I don't know much about the younger grades but unless the boy is indigenous it would not be a sporting scholarship. Perhaps his parents liked the school ethos and its stellar Rugby program? Maybe they thought Waverley was crap and lacked discipline. Who knows? I don't.
Names would be useful instead of being so cryptic
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Rocky Elsom (76)
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Bill Watson (15)
O'shea and Ticehurst both have fathers who work at Joeys . Wright has been there since Yr 7. Serhon's father works at Newington.
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Considering Charlie Smith has two brothers that attend Scots, I think we can rule out foul play there.
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Yeah sounds alright, but interestingly if you were talking about Scots you'd sound a lot like the Scots defenders, that seem to be disregarded so readily on this forum. Which I think makes your remarks somewhat hypocritical.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
I think SJC avoid that criticism because they are so strong at the bottom: it is not as obvious.
My SJC sources are not as strong at the moment so I cant fan the fire but in the past it has been reasonably reliably confirmed to me.
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Bill Watson (15)
How? I don't know who you are talking about. If I knew, I could tell you.
Re Scots, the players/parents tell everyone that they have scholarships so its not a classified secret.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
I must say, this is a big difference between the schools.
You have to pay attention with everyone else!
Shore do well, but I thnk they're a little behind Grammar and High in HSC results.
Your point about English courses is valid though.
Sorry, your correct! i did forget about Grammar and High.. can't imagine why though
I dont know about this year but last year Joeys provided the information that there were 10 boys who had joined Joeys after year 9 in the 1st XV squad . Second only to Newington. Joeys regularly have boys who start in yr 10 and 11 in the 1st XV . In the old days they regularly had boys repeat yr12 from another school and so on.
RM2 To carry on about other schools not developing boys from yr 7 into 1st XV is an incredible double standard.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Joey's also has the benefit of hosting primary-age rep carnivals each year at their grounds. It must be a particularly wonderful experience for the boys because, according to friends who have had their boys participate, a number of lads who hadn't planned on going to boarding school arrive at Joey's the following year.
Depth is an interesting concept - number of teams/players or the success of the A/B teams in each age group. I think the north of the harbour schools would favour the former and the south the latter, especially in 'ye olde days" . Hard to compete on numbers when you only field down to a C's or D's. To this point does anyone know how Scotts A's in 13 to 16 fared on the weekend?
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Ward Prentice (10)
Scots 13A, 14A, 15A all won, 16A lost in a fairly close one.
Edited to add: Scots won 17 games and lost 12. There have been a few negative comments regarding depth; I haven't looked at other weeks results but I think this looks like the Scots program is improving standards across the age groups.
Edited to add: Scots won 17 games and lost 12. There have been a few negative comments regarding depth; I haven't looked at other weeks results but I think this looks like the Scots program is improving standards across the age groups.
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Bill Watson (15)
Maybe English is a second language for you so I will go slowly. I have never said what you assert. Many boys join many schools in Yr10,11 and 12 mainly because boarding fees are extremely high. Small thing called a drought has impacted many families who would ordinarily start in Yr 7. SCots, Joeys, Kings would all be affected.
The point is, no sports scholarships at Joeys. Let me repeat, no sport scholarships at Joeys.
All schools develop boys from Yr 7, even Scots. These boys usually make up the 13As, then the 14As….until one day, they might make the 1sts or 2nds.
Not all schools import 1/2 a team like Scots except Newington.
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Nathan Sharpe (72)
For anyone joining or rejoining the thread (I'm tuning out for a while) we have returned to the south western corner of the mulberry bush.
All aboard, first stop hunters hill followed by north parramatta then all stops to college street for a quick tour of the similarities between academic and sporting scholarships before heading over to north sydney, via gladesville, in order to review the likelihood of the existence of rowing scholarships - brookvale buses depart on the round service [anyone joining in brook vale should have (a) their 5 minute ergie score handy for an all expenses paid trip to SIRC on HOTR day] on the half hour - this service terminates at stanmore where you can view cricket, rugby and water polo played at the highest levels.
All aboard, first stop hunters hill followed by north parramatta then all stops to college street for a quick tour of the similarities between academic and sporting scholarships before heading over to north sydney, via gladesville, in order to review the likelihood of the existence of rowing scholarships - brookvale buses depart on the round service [anyone joining in brook vale should have (a) their 5 minute ergie score handy for an all expenses paid trip to SIRC on HOTR day] on the half hour - this service terminates at stanmore where you can view cricket, rugby and water polo played at the highest levels.
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Herbert Moran (7)
Only put the line in to hook a tiddler, but got the big marlin. Super stuff.