School sporting scholarships/recruitment

[Hugh Jarse]

JUST RELEASED from Joeys Headmaster


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We look forward in confidence to a renewed and rewarding engagement that has characterised the long history of GPS sport.

Phew. The '13 World Domination Crisis is officially over.

Now having dealt with TSC (for the time being), who will be the subject of our ongoing scrutiny?

The loss of a "big lad" from St Gregs (@Vindictam other post above) will not do much for their fledgling rugby programme.

By moving him from St Gregs (induced or not) to a "rugby only" school, have we saved him from being absorbed into the very successful Loig programme at St Gregs and lost forever to our code?

 

[Inside Shoulder]

By moving him from St Gregs (induced or not) to a "rugby only" school, have we saved him from being absorbed into the very successful Loig programme at St Gregs and lost forever to our code?

You mean just like we saved ourselves from losing Joey Lussick, Taane Milne and Morea Tepai to the mungoes?

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Well in their cases, it increased the possibility of them converting from nil to slight.

Keliti Vainquolo from NC, initially went to the Dark Side with West Tigers <insert Car Manufacturers name> cup. He has now established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the Beasts 1st Grade 2nd row.

Without the exposure to Heavensgame at NC, would he have contemplated a switch to (back) Rugby when he didn't land a NRL contract after the Under 20's.

It's like Pantene (modified). It won't happen overnight, but it could happen.

 

[whatever]

TSC are entitled to get the sh1ts

Blood oath.

 

[whatever]

Phew. The '13 World Domination Crisis is officially over.

Now having dealt with TSC (for the time being), who will be the subject of our ongoing scrutiny?

The loss of a "big lad" from St Gregs (@Vindictam other post above) will not do much for their fledgling rugby programme.

By moving him from St Gregs (induced or not) to a "rugby only" school, have we saved him from being absorbed into the very successful Loig programme at St Gregs and lost forever to our code?

So they just kicked St Gregs and IAS rugby in the nuts and you pat them on the back, as well as, slapping their association's face after Scott's basketball debacle. There's no positive spin to it.

Why refer the league as loig, very petty.

League is not the central problem, the inability to expand the game at a junior level is the major problem union has (as per other thread)

 

[Quick Hands]

You mean just like we saved ourselves from losing Joey Lussick, Taane Milne and Morea Tepai to the mungoes?

All 3 of whom were also playing rugby at other schools before they went to NC. Lussick was at St Augustines, which has a pretty good rugby programme and weren't the other 2 at Randwick?

 

[Quick Hands]

No comment yet from the vocal Scots defenders on the Tarlington letter?

While there are issues remaining for ultimate resolution, The Scots College has communicated to me a commitment to more defined approaches in development of structures and models for positive and healthy sporting engagement. The commitment includes:

• Specific requirement of staff to not approach students from other schools, including offering any kind of inducement or third party consideration, to encourage them to seek enrolment at the College; and,

• The Scots College Council to implement new approaches for awarding bursaries and scholarships.

The very things we've been told ad nauseum weren't happening and any suggestion that they were happening was part of a giant conspiracy to destroy Scots College and /or complete lies.

Rob Hart, Scaraby, Dodgyknee et al?

 

[Inside Shoulder]

You mean just like we saved ourselves from losing Joey Lussick, Taane Milne and Morea Tepai to the mungoes?

All 3 of whom were also playing rugby at other schools before they went to NC. Lussick was at St Augustines, which has a pretty good rugby programme and weren't the other 2 at Randwick?

Yes - and IIRC the rugby program for their year imploded on departure

 

[Inside Shoulder]

No comment yet from the vocal Scots defenders on the Tarlington letter?

While there are issues remaining for ultimate resolution, The Scots College has communicated to me a commitment to more defined approaches in development of structures and models for positive and healthy sporting engagement. The commitment includes:

• Specific requirement of staff to not approach students from other schools, including offering any kind of inducement or third party consideration, to encourage them to seek enrolment at the College; and,

• The Scots College Council to implement new approaches for awarding bursaries and scholarships.

The very things we've been told ad nauseum weren't happening and any suggestion that they were happening was part of a giant conspiracy to destroy Scots College and /or complete lies.


Rob Hart, Scaraby, Dodgyknee et al?

When i read the letter and posted it I thought perhaps a corner has been turned and the thread will go to bed for a while, at least.
But then there emerge stories of poaching at NC and I am reminded by email that one boy has turned up at TSC this year for his rugby prowess and I think perhaps there is more than a touch of naivety in Tarlinton's acceptance of what he has been told.
And the I am reminded of clear evidence of the damage done to fledgling rugby programs by this poaching: for the good of the game STOP.

 

[Quick Hands]

While matters of concern remain to be fully resolved, there is sufficient confidence at this point in time to say there will be no further escalation of the actions taken.

I think all eyes will still be on Dr Lambert for a little while anyway.

 

[Gristlechewer]

Will the Parrot interview Dr Lambert after he comes back from his back operation and admonish all the other Headmasters on radio for taking the opportunities away from the young boys?
And I didnt think that the Parrot had a spine anyway

 

[Brian Westlake]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/gps-sch...-boycott-on-scots-college-20140206-324hr.html

 

[Quick Hands]

Will the Parrot interview Dr Lambert?

If Dr Lambert is smart, he won't give any interviews for a long, long time.

 

[Quick Hands]

I feel that the heads are giving Lambert a soft out by not pressuring him in the press.

If Dr Lambert has acknowledged to the others the things contained in Ross Tarlington's letter, publicly humiliating him isn't the way forward.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

^^^ Is Dr "Mattress" Lambert finally taking Sir Humphrey Appleby's advice?

 

[Quick Hands]

My friends there tell me he will purge others before accepting the blame for the issue.

That would be Corporate Leadership 101 wouldn't it?

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Dr J T Vallance announced in grammar assembly yesterday that the compromise Tarlinton spoke of in his letter came as news to him, and assuring the boys that, as he promised in late 2013, he would keep them informed of any developments. As far as he was concerned there had been no developments to speak of.

 

[Quick Hands]

Interesting. You'd think that the 5 heads would have maintained telephone contact.

 

[Quick Hands]

Last year's Scots 16As rugby come into opens this year, so this still has a bit to run.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

In basketball news..Wins today to Joeys 1st, 2nd and 3rds Basketball over T$C using 100% pure homegrown talent. The Joeys boys came out of the blocks with plenty to prove against the NSW Champions and reigning GPS title holders.

In scholarship news, the T$C 1st XI have been declared 100% pure for the first time in 3 seasons I am told. A TSC cricket parent told me she feels for the team as they are being unfairly tarnished by the basketball and rugby scholarships. The boys themselves could name many of the 61 boys they know who are there on scholarships. (They did not shy away from the "S"word at all. "It is what it is" they said)

Only because a country import went home.
Could you ask your source whether the absence of afternoon tea following the SGS TSC 1st XI game was payback for the standoff? I am told it is not an obligation following 50 over games but is, nonetheless, usually supplied.