People that label private schoolboys as soft cocks need to wake up to the fact that the majority of today's wallabies came through the very system you are ripping on.
Pull your head in there tiger. I had the pleasure of attending private school (and had a great time while I was there) with some ex-Wallabies and current and ex-S15 and international players.
If you have visited these forums more than once I'm sure you too would have realised that there are plenty of private school characters knocking around on the boards at GAGR. Even to the point that I'd bet that the majority of people who post regularly on the forum have attended private school of some description.
That is the nature of rugby. It is embedded in the "private school, north shore" culture.
I spent the majority of my school years in the public system and whilst I enjoyed my time at boarding school, I did happen to come across a fair amount of soft cocks while I was there. Kids who had it all but didn't (and still don't) appreciate it. The cost of a hypoxic chamber at the Scots School would have been say $100,000 - my point is that these kids would gain just as much from training in the normal atmosphere as they would in a hypoxic chamber. And imagine what they could do if they trained hard?
The hypoxic chamber at the Scots school is a classic example of the old boy network gone wild. As
Braveheart81 said, his Dad is training for a bike ride and because he's an old boy his Dad can use it for free. But rather than put that money into something that the whole school (or even community) can benefit from, the school (and I would nearly bet the old boys network at Scots) chose to put that money into a training aid that will get more use from the old boys than the students.
My point is that the hypoxic chamber is a waste of money, particularly on some toffy nosed Scots boys (and their Dads) to use as a training aid for rowing (or a bike ride) to gain a minimal advantage. I also think that the sense of entitlement that some up and coming rugby players (and athletes in general) possess can be attributed in part to the installation of such fancy equipment at a school. Get back to basics.
NSW Waratahs ring a bell?
I love rugby and will be involved in the game until I die, but this sort of stuff just reeks of too much money, not enough substance.