I agree with these remarks and if School X is indeed the premier school in a particular year it is fair enough to have the team that has mainly the X players in it to be the Ones and the other side, the Twos.
Feel compelled to disagree with you on this Lee.
Let's talk facts and not hypotheticals for a moment. This thread is about ISA and 'School X' in this case is St Augustines. A school that has produced rugby teams of exceptional quality over the past 4 years or so.
The ISA competition consists of 8 schools playing in the Division 1 comp and another 8 schools playing in the Division 2 comp - potentially 240 1st XV players vying for selection in an ISA squad of 38. This year the selectors chose 18 St Augustines players in that squad - 3 St Augustines 2nd XV players were preferred to their 1st XV counterparts from other schools - how they got to trial in the first place is beyond me, but......
Last week the ISA 1st XV was revealed. 13 players from St Augustines are in the team. A forward from Stannies and a back from St Gregs make up the 15 man team. This team is not 'representative' of the ISA.
The ISA teams have only 2 opportunities to impress NSW selectors. They don't play 4 games like CHS or 3 games like CAS - they play 2 matches and neither of these games is against GPS. Indeed, the 2nds play CCC in their first match. Last weekend, CCC were well beaten by CHS, who in turn were well beaten by CAS through the week. So, in reality, an ISA 2nds player has 1 game against CAS 2nds to press his claim for higher rep honours - can't see it happening for any of the kids in the ISA IIs Lee.
Your assertion above, as it relates to the situation within ISA this year, is flawed. 13 players in the premier association team from the one school is not fair representation of the talent that exists across the 16 schools who make up the ISA.
