Apologies, for posting in the wrong thread, but this seems the most likely place where I'll find the answers that I am looking for. I am researching Schools Rugby in Victoria. The following article provides context:
http://schoolstribune.com/victoria-state-team-named-for-aussie-nationals-p612-1.htm
Is it correct that the VSRU comps I & II (14 schools all up) are the only schools rugby competition in the State? Where do the rest of the players in the VIC Schools squad come from?
Very few players from the VSRU made the Victoria Schools XV at the National Schools Championship (played last week) and even fewer in 2011.
Thanks!
What a load of shit. Did they ask anybody involved in Victorian rugby any questions?
Many of these schools listed as non-rugby schools compete is 10-a-side tournament that the VRU run. Is this an ideal platform for Vic Rugby? I don't think so but my opinion aside, this exists and if the article writer researched that they'd of found out.
So, Victorian Rugby select players who got down to a club to train rather than a school and somehow they are disowning the rugby public? Please, these guys are as dedicated as any.
Club rugby is a better standard here so more players are selected, it's rare that a non-scholarship schools player is picked for rep teams. Sure, it's an issue the schools need to address but it's not a failure of the Vic Rugby system as a whole.
The emphasis is Vic Rugby is simply on club rather than school.
Back to my point, a poorly researched article that condemns Vic Rugby as doing things at the "expense of rugby loyalists" is a load of crap.
Whoever wrote this needs to pull their head-in, to play Schools Rep rugby you have to attend a school and not play for one.