ISA Rugby 2013

[I like to watch]

Pittwater House represent through AICES.
they are no rugby powerhouse, their yr 12 cohort is small,and is co ed.
They struggle to field an Opens team I believe.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Div 2 Round 2:
Redlands v All Saints

Redfield v St Andrews

Central Coast v Chev

Not tipping this week after the lack of success in round 1.

Rugby will be the winner. It will be a game of two halves, with the best team on the day that wants it most winning. Thanks to the parents for the spread, and good luck for the rest of the season and for the Year 12 boys in the HSC.

 

[Hell West & Crooked]

The Road trips are quite a novelty, it's a shame a few more country teams aren't in.. any big schools in Cobar, Moree or West Wyalong, we don't get enough out of geography lessons any more

Road trips were good when you turned-up at Stannies or Pats Goulburn and had to play a bunch of Farm Lads who pulled Ploughs around the Main Oval in the Off-season for Fun!... Frozen Fields and Big Bastards that you couldn't at first work out how to knock down... But you need the Boarders to make it interesting.

I have always been surprised that TAS does not make better use of its' membership in GPS - It is a good college with good facilities, and Tamworth is not really that far... Maybe it would do better in ISA.

I was really referring to several posts in these forums that suggest that Crossing the Harbour Bridge was "so far to travel" for these poor sooks - Where in God's Name are we instilling our Kids with a SENSE OF ADVENTURE these days??

We used to turn up in Bowral on a freezing wet June Day, with their Concrete-like Pitch, and (as I recall) a couple of steel irrigation plates around the field that the 5/8s would then try to kick to - and the only consolation was some Hot Meat Pies - and at least in latter years - The Girls from when Chev was co-ed coming down to watch the game... Bloody Bliss for a 16 year old kid!

Then there was the Fish & Chips in Newspaper from the Goulburn Chippy before heading home along the Highway, and having a yarn in the car with your mates...

 

[Hell West & Crooked]

What about schools in Wagga, Coffs, Newcastle, Wollongong, (dare I say it) Canberra, or Albury/Wodonga?

What about Pittwater House. What mob do they belong to?

In theory, that Blue Mountains Grammar should have the population base to turn into a decent Sporting College - But I understand that to date it has perhaps not been a priority? Are they still in ISA?

 

[sarcophilus]

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I am also sympathetic with their concept of the Kings School as a Suburb - it must be daunting to drive past all those western suburbs houses, wondering which of their inmates 'Works for Father'.[/quote]

don't go upsetting the matriarchs now, some of them don't like that sought of talk

 

[Hugh Jarse]

BMGS are in ISA div 3. They play against some of the "Big Schools" 3rd XVs, and the likes of Oxley.

A couple of pages back, someone posted the details on how ISA Div 3 will work.

 

[Wood Rat]

In theory, that Blue Mountains Grammar should have the population base to turn into a decent Sporting College - But I understand that to date it has perhaps not been a priority? Are they still in ISA?

The ISA headed up there for their first training runs last year, great atmosphere, there was so much of it you couldn't see the other end of the field.

 

[Hell West & Crooked]

What holds them back - is it the Co-Ed question of numbers?

 

[Hugh Jarse]

^^^ Think you have described Wentworth Falls for about 4 months of the year.

 

[Hell West & Crooked]

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don't go upsetting the matriarchs now, some of them don't like that sought of talk

ahem...."That sought of torque"...

 

[sarcophilus]

ah spell check tells you you spelt a word but doesn't yell you if you spelt the correct one

 

[sarcophilus]

^^^ Think you have described Wentworth Falls for about 4 months of the year.

helps get plenty of practice with the tea and scones and crafts

 

[Hell West & Crooked]

What about schools in Wagga, Coffs, Newcastle, Wollongong, (dare I say it) Canberra, or Albury/Wodonga?

What about Pittwater House. What mob do they belong to?

I suddenly strikes me as odd - cannot think of a decent boarding school - OR a decent Rugby School in a city the size of Newcastle... !! am I wrong?

 

[Wood Rat]

Angrery Dog was getting a little frustrated with the brittle nature of the ACT comp last year
there may be some displeasure if you go poaching more schools from the comp

 

[RugbyTears]

St Augustines 16s down heading to Oak Hill

This will be a good one to watch ! This will tell who will win ISA next year. Oakhill 16As beat Newington by over 50 last weekend but Newington had a couple out for athletics. This weekend is a full fixture Oakhill vs Auggies except in the Opens. I see Auggies is fielding five or six 13 age teams against Oakhill -- terrific for ISA rugby.

 

[Wood Rat]

This will be a good one to watch ! This will tell who will win ISA next year.

There are a few from last years Augies16s that will still be hanging around in 2014 and if tradition follows 2014 will be at Oakhill on fete day usualy a tough day for any visitors. I wouldnt be using this weeks results as a basis for engaging engravers
These two teams will meet again later in the year at Rat Park

 

[RugbyTears]

I am so glad ISA is doing something to keep rugby going in so many country schools -- hope it can do more in the future. Sure beats what the ARU is doing. Just Stannies & Kinross alone, there must be more junior rugby players in those two schools compare to the whole of the Western Plain. Not to mention All Saints & Scots. Stannies alone carries about 25 teams every year. If not for the fact that they can find opposition teams & grounds (and refs) to play against in the ISA, how many clubs in the Bathurst region need to be created to carry that load ?
One thing I like to see is how the other ISA schools can offer meaningful comp games for Chev & Andrews to build their numbers. In Div 2 they are against one team per age group schools. Wouldn't it be great if these two schools with such strong rugby heritage can rebuild their numbers and be considered for Div 1 again ? They will never be competitive with just one team per age group.

 

[exISA]

Chev / CCG game will be a cracker . I think my coach from my chev days is coaching ccg now .

 

[sarcophilus]

I am so glad ISA is doing something to keep rugby going in so many country schools -- hope it can do more in the future. Sure beats what the ARU is doing. Just Stannies & Kinross alone, there must be more junior rugby players in those two schools compare to the whole of the Western Plain. Not to mention All Saints & Scots. Stannies alone carries about 25 teams every year. If not for the fact that they can find opposition teams & grounds (and refs) to play against in the ISA, how many clubs in the Bathurst region need to be created to carry that load ?
One thing I like to see is how the other ISA schools can offer meaningful comp games for Chev & Andrews to build their numbers. In Div 2 they are against one team per age group schools. Wouldn't it be great if these two schools with such strong rugby heritage can rebuild their numbers and be considered for Div 1 again ? They will never be competitive with just one team per age group.

The ISA does appear to be an open and progressive association, as opposed to the the original association and the other exclusive association that was set up because they were not allowed to play with the older kids, it doesn't seem to be as impressed by the smell of its own farts.
hopefully Rugby in Australia can grasp the value of the idea of an open circle and not continue to chase the circle of fundament that it appears to.

 

[Hell West & Crooked]

ah spell check tells you you spelt a word but doesn't yell you if you spelt the correct one

Its not about spelling - good breeding will tell you its all in the PRONOUNCIATION