GPS Rugby Sydney 2012

Yeah, he was listed to play in the 2nd row for the Eels SG Ball side last night against the Roosters . mind you I noticed Joey Lussick was missing ???

are they paid to play SG Ball?

My research suggests they are.
Kids who have been paid to play either code should not be eligible to play schoolboy rugby union.

Exactly, and I also think it is unfair to have pathways people running around out there aka jim stewart. Can only imagine how him and tepai will pump schools like grammar probably killing their opponent in the process

Hence my outrage at the missing post. Someone must have thought it was from an outsider. Most are completely ?,:&@@$$$ed off at where SGS rugby has gone.

HarveyColon, just curious why you think pathways kids shouldn't be playing schoolboys? They still have to be within the age limit (ie. no older than 18), so why should it count against them?

Start a thread about it - not that there's anything anyone on here can do about it

Depends - I guess my unioncentric view is that if youre playing SG Ball you're probably going to play league. Also and i know i cant mention the "s" word it kind of makes you wonder what theyre doing at the or any school - seems they fancy a career in professional rugby of one sort or another.
the pathways thing is a bit different because i think it acknowledges the primacy of school.
this all comes back to my pet subject of it being ridiculous to organise 7 different school system rugby comps that seldom play each other with smattering of oz schoolboys and similar who get 3 hard comp games if their lucky.
the elite need to be playing against each other week in week out - as do the not so elite - and that cant be done by reference to 19th century notions of GPS, CAS, ISA, CCC, CHS etc.
Here endeth the lesson.

The elite do play against each other each week - its called GPS.

I assume thats a troll.as I said they play 3 competitive games - at the moment Scots seem to be putting an effort into rugby but historically they are underperformers as are Riverview and newington.

Historically all the schools in GPS were underperformers bar Joey's in the GPS competition. Isn't it 50 odd premierships in the past 100 years?

The gps has passed its use by date.
Vested interest and incompetence will mean that the ARU does nothing to replace it as a source for players.



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but the GPS isn't just about rugby, it has been around for over 100 years and wasn't made to feature the 8 elite rugby schools. The GPS will never expand, nor should it. The more realistic option is for more trial games against strong opposition like HSHS, St Augstines and a few CAS schools. Even so 4 or 5 of the top 10 schoolboy sides each year come from the GPS competition and thats a fact.

the better option is to stop the recruiting of purely rugby talent

back on what was said before about pathways, I thought Jim Stewart was 19 already

The GPS don't allow players to play if they turn 19 that year, so Jim Stewart must be young for his year. The HSC Pathways program is open to pretty much anybody (lots of kids do it for health reasons or whatever) but Stewart couldn't play for Scots if he was over 18 so would defeat the purpose of him doing the HSC over two years.

It's not that long ago when kids would repeat Year 12 two or three times so they could play firsts (with no age barriers)? Some of them looked like they could have been married with kids.

What is the problem with Stewart and Tepai? Stewart is only 18 this year always been one of those year young guys. Tepai will only be 16 throughout the whole GPS comp turns 17 late in the year. So how is it unfair??

is Tepai playing 16s this year ?