It is exactly that. Most team sports have it, compiled of players who missed out on respective selection in their region/school that get another opportunity to compete for state selection. There are some bloody good players in that team, non more so than 15. Jonah Placid who is a real shot at QLD 1 IMO. The state champs can't just be made up of AIC, GPS and CSS so they put a few extra teams in just to give selectors a bit of variety and give kids who may have been overlooked first time around another shot.
Boomboom, we get it. Terrace have improved considerably from last year, they have compiled a team capable of competing on a week to week basis and they are showing that they have the depth in younger age groups to accomodate this growth and the lows of last year won't be experienced again for a while. It was no secret that Terrace would rebound, they are one of Australia's proudest schoolboy rugby nurseries and if you were around here last year you would have seen posts which reflected that. The overal feeling in these threads has been positive towards the future of Terrace rugby but we don't need to push that any further. Right now, each team has an even start for the premiership, trial results mean very little, and it is important not to over-emphasis these results. Trial form, cohesion and serious injuries mean a lot, although there is still over a month before the first game kicks off there are very limited opportunities for teams to fix the bleeding before things get serious. Terrace are in a good position but they still have a lot to prove and are coming off a wooden spoon last year, it would be very foolish to start beating their drum before they even have a win next to their name in the regular season.
