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agree manly are looking the goods atm to
Does anyone know what has happened to Ruka Hanlon? He was dropped from Easts 1sts colts recently. Quite a fall from grace.
Also Manly were great against the annointed ones on the weekend. Just goes to show how weak some of the so called elite schoolboys are when they play in a decent competition. They all look good when playing againnst Grammar but put them in against quality talent and they struggle. You only have to look at a couple of superstars who are still playing colts at Gordon.
The 1sts Colts table is pretty tight at the top end with only 6 points between the top 4.
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I think he's injured. I'm pretty sure not dropped.
Agree with your other comments. Interestingly, some Grammar boys are actually performing.
"My point was that just because a player is dominant in school football dies not necessarily mean he will star immediately in colts. Reasons for this include the weak nature of schoolboy football when in the ISA, GPS and CAS competitions only half of the teams are any good.
Another reason is that they are playing against people who potentially could be 2 years older than them. All this drooling over some of these teams in the last few years has been unrealistic."
Spot on!
Agree.
Those of us who rabbit on about schools rugby do so because it is a level of rugby, like Colts, Club, Super and Test ruby and is worthwhile talking about. But it should be always compartmentalised. We shouldn't assume that a good schoolboy player will be a good senior player without seeing him go through Colts first etc.
It's a pity that I can't write that you can't judge how a club player is going to play in Super Rugby until you have seen him play in the ARC first because we no longer have that filter. That's one level we are missing; but I digress.
But on the other hand there is no reason why talking about star schools players should be construed as being unrealistic unless a claim is made about an individual player. In the past I have mentioned a few like Beale and Horne as likely pro players but there are very few schoolies you could say that about.
I think that most folks who follow schools rugby regularly know that boys have to be remeasured after they leave school, and the more years they watch schools rugby, the more they know it. There is a lot of hype, but that is more for one school against another, or the merits of a lad from one school against the merits of a lad from another school, or the relative strengths of CAS and GPS etc.
Talking about schools rugby is very popular, but the frequency of posts should not purport to be anything else but a measure of interest. Anybody who thinks that a lad can be adequately measured up in Schools rugby and not go through a Colts programme before going to Grade has rocks in their head, even though, far too often, school leavers have to go straight to Grade because a club lacks senior depth.
That's why I like the Sydney Uni system; virtually all young recruits have to start in Colts first.
More than likely if we get any more rain they will move it. The cricket guys and the council are very precious about it's use even for training.
I would have liked to be a fly on the wall when louden and his staff had a points meeting with his grade and colts a few weeks back. In regards to players dropping back is there an amount of qualifying games they need to have?
Any feedback on how manly dished up uni? in colts 1s.. also i saw randwick v uni in 3s had a 14 all draw.. not bad for a colts group who have struggled for depth in the past (due to uni/easts throwing $$$ degrees at local kids)..
southern districts have also struggled big time in ones/...
i would like to see a city v country 20s selection as well played next yr before next saturdays game? thoughts