You seem to think that there is some ruling preventing the Sydney GPS teams from entering this National Competition. Last time I looked, it was open to all secondary school teams to enter the various competitions to determine the State representatives to go forward to the Nationals. I can not fathom the arrogance (and ignorance) of the teams (and supporters) who decide not to enter a competition, and then get all precious about being "better" than the winner of said competition.
Who decides who are these multiple teams that are by definition "really good"?
The purpose of the competition is to determine how good the teams are and their relative ranking compared to all the others.
If some "good" outfit decides not to compete, then they lose all bragging rights to being considered "good" or better than the mob who wins the competition.
Why do the so called "good" teams boycott the National Championships?
If they are so "good" then why are they scared to take the chance to demonstrate how "good" they actually are.
Just because a team is "good" at 15 aside rugby, doesn't mean that they will necessarily be "good" at the shortened version of the game. Most of the Awesome Rugby 7's players are basic journeymen in the 15 aside version of the game, and vice versa.
no i dont seem to think that and have never said anything to lead you to believe otherwise. Nor do i condone teams not entering or entering below par teams i think its stupid.
Who decides who are these multiple teams that are by definition "really good"?- the competition they are in, the standing in that competition, the quality of the players, previous results by that team are all fairly good indicators id imagine
"If some "good" outfit decides not to compete, then they lose all bragging rights to being considered "good" or better than the mob who wins the competition." so using your logic if the all blacks, wallabies or springboks decided to boycott the next world cup for whatever they would cease to be a good team....dont think so
why do you automatically label them as scared? such a childish thing to do. Do you really honestly believe a schools coach goes"crap im not going to enter us in that comp because im scared we might get beaten"?
thats correct but its a pretty good guess, especially if the team has a good backline and a decent backrow. most 7's players are just 15's rejects theres very few who are truley good 7's players like gollings or serevi. one of Australias best players in the past few years has been stannard, kingi when he played was another, now personally i believe there is no way in hell theyd even get a look in if all the s15 players were available. most 7's players play 7's because they just cant cut it in the full version
