One of the strongest GPS competitions so far. With nearly over half of the Australian Schoolboy team coming from one institution made up of 8 schools.
We should stop blaming each others schools and think on what we have created. The GPS competition should be seen as the pinnacle of Schoolboy rugby. Which it is.
From the renewed frequency and vigour of your posts I assume the HSC is over for you.
You've inadvertently identified the problem, thinking it to be the solution.
Leaving to one side the accuracy of ILTWs assessment of the particular skills, Lussick was grabbed from St Augustine's which has a good if not great rugby program and is a beacon for our code on the northern beaches: how does taking him to stanmore and letting him sign up to league ( not saying thatNew could have stopped him but it's something they should have worked on as a gift to the game) help rugby from the Spit Bridge to Barrenjoey?
I gather one of the other 2 came from RBHS - they do have a rugby program which would have benefitted from a player of his quality staying around. He would have made CHS and nothing I've seen of him suggests that Newington added much to his pre-existing non passing league game so he would have gone just as far.
But he too is lost to the code so there is a net loss in taking him from the public system where he might have got marginal players more interested in the game played in heaven.
2013 oz schools consisted of 27 from private high schools and 3 from public which makes our game look like a game for the spoilt children of bankers and lawyers. Mind you the children of those professions aren't good enough to keep the old boys happy so better players have to be parachuted in.
It used to be near enough to 50/50 and the change mirrors the decline in the game outside the private schools.
So do our performances at Wallaby level.
