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Yep, brain snap there. Remembered Stewart in yellow, must have been U20's. Was thinking of Rodda's early debut. And the NRC? Typing after getting distracted. Apologies.

Perhaps if the Reds stopped picking kids straight out of school and allowed them to learn their craft with a bit of graft in club rugby we might get some depth. Stewart/Tupou only played colts at club, Rodda played a few at Prems. Stewart and Tupuo have been Wallabies without a full senior club...

God help the fee paying parents at Churchie when the cricket, swimming, basketball, soccer, chess, debating etc teams start demanding their own full time dedicated coach.

Be interesting to know exactly how many people traveled from Brisbane to watch the game. There's probably only 10000 fans on the Goldie. They are the ones who travel to Brissie to watch games, and probably most of them were at the game. The rest were likely casual or from Brissie. I think they...

Agree Ponga is a superstar, as long as it's dry. Not too many highlights from the sodden BBC game.

I think the 2nd's have drawn a game, but yes, they haven't won a game yet. Last year I think they finished 3rd (unlucky not to be 2nd). Don't know if they have much better players but this year they just don't seem to be gelling together. Like the 1st's, something just doesn't seem to be...

It would appear there's no room for props if you want both the Captain of Rugby and the only boy who seems able to throw in the side.

I'm more surprised at the anger expressed towards these boys now that things aren't going so well. Seems like last year when it looked like they had a shot everyone was waving the flag, but now that the wheels have fallen off this year it's all the imports fault. Supposedly it seems now, no one...

Smokin, I thing Rugged was just trying to refute the perception that is pretty prevalent on here that boys on scholarships are not as committed as the other boys. I don't think it was meant to cast any aspersions on the efforts of those other boys. Also, not every boy on a scholarship is a...

To be fair to Ikitau I don't think he did anything particularly wrong, rather he just happened to be standing in the wrong place when the ref decided enough was enough and someone was going to the bin. The State High send off was for a blatant brain snap and those are the ones that are...

BBC - BSHS game was a muddy slogfest. Lots of penalties. I reckon the ref's boots will still be dry as he levitated around the park waving his arms. BBCs kicking let them down again. Left a conversion and penalty kick on the table. Neither side could really gain dominance. There was a Yellow...

Couldn't agree more. At the GPS trials I noticed that more often than not the 1's and 3's were lined up on the wing. The hard work at the breakdown seemed left to others. When I asked one of the boys why the forwards were staying wide, he said that that's what the coaches wanted, so that they...

Barker was the same last year. Seems he will only interchange to cover injuries. Agree there are some unfit forwards running (or walking more like) around for BBC.

I realize that the lower grades are subject to player movement up and down from the teams above, but I think it would be good if there were something like a shield or even a pennant for each team to play for in their age and grade. Give the kids a feeling that they are playing for something at...

Just my preference for the pack. Trying to get some size and weight into the forwards that are being out-muscled at scrums and breakdowns in my opinion. S Farrel has gone ok at 2, but I don't know if he's fit enough or big enough, when there are other options.

Assuming Swain out injured, here's my pick of a BBC forward pack to try and get some grunt and muscle in against Nudgee: 1 Helms 2 Christianson 3 Peterson 4 Leyland 5 Davidson 6 Tuuga 7 Farrel 8 Gunter

Didn't realize sides were picked so early in the week.

Maybe that is BBC's problem. Too many 16yo's (maybe believing their own press as undefeated 15's) playing against bigger stronger 17yo's.

It is a different team at BBC this year, both in makeup and more importantly mentally and cohesively. Not a patch on last year at the moment. My bet is the current 6 & 8 will start the game somewhere.

I thought the BBC scrum held their own in the first half at least. It was mainly in the second half I thought they were out muscled. Some changes in the backs seemed to make the attacking difference in the second half. Agree their hooking woes continue. Shell shocked by TSS I think and unable...