Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Grammar did
- Status
kerser2
Bob McCowan (2)
did grammar have 6-7 ex boys playing for Australia at the same time? what year?
CTPE
Nev Cottrell (35)
Joeys: Brett Sheehan, Kurtley Beale & Luke Burgess
Kings: Benn Robinson, Julian Huxley, Stirling Mortlock & Dean Mumm
CTPE
Nev Cottrell (35)
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
in 1927 there was no Australian team as such because Queensland had ceased to exist.
The 1927-28 Waratahs, however, included Tom Lawton from Queensland and so were an Australian team. They toured Britain and Ireland. The internationals played on tour were decreed Tests by the ARU later.
The captain, johnnie Wallace went to sgs, as did the vice captain I'm pretty sure. Wallace rowed in 3 consecutive winning 1st viiii's. The were 6 or 7 grammar old boys in this team which invented the flat alignment, through Wallace, which was picked up and possibly perfected by Cyril towers (Waverley) who was also in the squad ( but could not make the A team) and taught to bob Dwyer at Randwick.
Hence grammar was behind the 1991 RWC success!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927–28_Waratahs_tour_of_the_British_Isles,_France_and_Canada
You will see in the footnotes reference to Born to lead: my calculation based on the information in this book is that sgs has produced more wallaby captains than any other school, unfortunately all before even I was born.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
providence
Herbert Moran (7)
Thanks for that Inside S. Very informative to say the least.
Perhaps you (or anyone else out there?) can answer this;
Of GPS school leavers over the past 3 - 4 years who stands out / is making a serious dent into putting on a Super 15 or Wallaby jersey?
Perhaps you (or anyone else out there?) can answer this;
Of GPS school leavers over the past 3 - 4 years who stands out / is making a serious dent into putting on a Super 15 or Wallaby jersey?
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Very true: including former ARU president Peter "charlie" Crittle - who while a PE teacher (I think/assume) @ Vaucluse High encouraged Steve Finnane to play rugby as a schoolboy.....thereby producing an arguable turning point in australian rugby.
random2
Johnnie Wallace (23)
Funny you mention Steve Finnane, his son Jake is currently in year 10 at Joeys and looks like he could follow in his fathers footsteps. A big, aggressive prop forward from the 14As last year his size and strength is amazing for someone so young, and he is very skillful to back it up. Defiantly a player of the future
wreckless
Bob Loudon (25)
If Jake is anything like his Dad then he will be a welcome addition to the props club!
IS - no question about a turning point, the Wales test and Price incident marked the point when the Wallabies weren't prepared to "cop it" no questions asked from the home countries on tour! Despite Clive Rowlands moaning! More like Steve Finnane please!
Cheers, Wreckless
IS - no question about a turning point, the Wales test and Price incident marked the point when the Wallabies weren't prepared to "cop it" no questions asked from the home countries on tour! Despite Clive Rowlands moaning! More like Steve Finnane please!
Cheers, Wreckless
CTPE
Nev Cottrell (35)
If he played 14As last year in Year 9 doesn't that make him underage and thus he'll be playing U15s in Year 10 this year? If so I doubt Joeys will play an U15 in their Opens
CTPE
Nev Cottrell (35)
If you read through the earlier posts in this thread it's stated that they have 5 of their 2011 1st XV returning this year - Wylie (10), Foketi (13), Moylan (8), Tourish (15) & Randell (7) and you'd expect that they'd all be back in the ones given their experience and rep level rugby - Foketi & Randell are in the NGS, Moylan & Tourish are in the JGS and from recollection Wylie has played for NSW Schools.There will no doubt be some 2011 seconds players vying for spots in the 1sts as well and maybe someone else can suggest names.
As has been noted in this and other threads their 2011 16As went through the season undefeated including trials and games against touring sides winning 15-16 games. Whilst this is a very good record it is probably tempered by the fact that some other U16 GPS teams were not at full age strength because they played a number of their U16s in the Opens last year, notably Joeys. That said there was some outstanding talent in Kings 16As and I'd reckon the following would be a real chance of playing in their 1sts this year: - Harry Jones (15)-[NGS], Corey Tulloch (10)-[NGS], Rory Davis (9)-[NGS], Jack McCalman (7)-[NGS], Matthew Matson (4)-[NGS], Lucas Bateman (1)-[JGS] & Ben Stacey (8)-[JGS]. I don't know if there are any new players at the school and yet again someone else might know about this.
I
International Badboy
Guest
Is Ben Condon a contender for 1st winger Riverview
MMmmm? Seasons 2004 to 2007 Joeys Firsts lost one (competition) match. Not a bad record. Halcyon perhaps?
CTPE
Nev Cottrell (35)
The time period I referred to was 15 years not the 4 years you have referred to where they won successive premierships. It's also now 4 years since they last won a premiership their biggest "losing streak" since 1971-75 when High was dominating GPS rugby.
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
good point and I'm not sure whether prior to about the mid 80s they'd decades of dominance, accepting of course that they won a truck load of premierships and were synonymous with gps rugby.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
I shall keep an eye out for him.
Seems young to be Steve's son.
Wreckless only those of us of a certain age realise that! I see him around a bit and he is the most unassuming bloke.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Eh? I thought 1971 to 75 was the worst drought in Joeys' history since about, what, the 1910s.
- Status