Ziggy, to be fair there are a few deeper rooted reasons that contribute to all this, and I hope this all comes across in the right manor.
Firstly other sports are obviously taking Rugby numbers, in all schools, Joeys might be the exception.
Secondly, every year across all age groups and all CAS schools, the Waves win 80%+ of all CAS games.
It is a number reflected by our Convenor of Rugby at our end of season presentation night every year.
Since 1943, when the Waves joined the CAS, the school has won twice as many championships as its nearest rival.
From my experience over the last 10 years, having had 2 boys attend, our younger age groups eg 13-16s often go undefeated, same as the junior school.
Even when we play the GPS schools we win well over 50% of all games, Joeys (when we play them) View and Oakhill are the only schools were it is a fair dinkum ding dong in every age, which is a shame.
So Knox, like Barker etc have nearly always lost most games v Waves over many years.
It needs to be pointed out that Rugby is in the Waverley DNA, Joeys is the obvious GPS comparison, BUT we don't win much else in the summer or winter sports, sometimes the soccer ( like this year).
Knox and Trinity typically dominate many other sports, and Cranbrook are unrivaled in Cricket at the moment. So Rugby is our gig!
I think everyone would agree that Rugby generally is at a cross roads, and the gap between the schools who seriously want to have a strong Rugby program, and the rest, is probably getting wider.
I am confident that Snort, who was a very talented Trinity competitor of mine
, will probably reaffirm all of this!