School sporting scholarships/recruitment

View are very careful about the application of the word 'scholarship'. They're so sensitive to it in fact that they proclaim with some zeal on their website 'We do not provide any scholarships'. Closely followed on the same page of course by a specific list of some 35 or more Bursaries. Not 'Scholarships' mind, but Bursaries, you know those heartfelt offers of a Jesuit education to the needy and deserving, particularly open sides.

Reminded me of my formative years, when the good Monsignor used to 'sell' Gods favours to the willing parishioners...lol

How much favour did $30k get?

I've found a vid with rusty on it

are you blokes talking about voldermort or Harry Jones? you can say his name you know this is the scholarship thread.

neither
H Jones is not on a scholarship

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Yep! There's a tongan boy at View and I'm sure he is on bursaries'.

No they just mature quicker

Yep, the bursary, a product of the seminary, more than cursory, develops a great nursery for defeating any adversary...lol

Haha gold ON85. There might be some truth to the Bursary program producing some 1st XV players but in my time there not a single kid on a bursary made the first XV at View- most of the kids were from Africa and had never seen a Rugby ball. Happy to be corrected though, I haven't paid too much attention to it since i was a student.

Joe, a couple of them where pretty good athletes but I suppose it is hard to find an East African who is not a good middle distance runner

Agreed, but they certainly weren't given a spot in the school for their running abilities. All in all, View (with maybe Shore) are the cleanest school in regards to sporting scholarships. Bursaries included.

Grammar & High would argue about that

You mean Grammar and High would debate that.

perhaps they just wouldn't agree

No i didnt: mention of debating would only focus attention on the debating scholarships offered at each school

Well, this is the forum for that. I'm sure debating scholarships have been rife at these schools for years.

'We don't offer scholarships, but here's a list of 35 bursaries'? Absolutely clean, no need for a 're-view' ? Ah the naivety of youff

ON, it would seem you are in favour of open slather, in which case you should probably visit the grandstand at Northbridge and compare it to yours, because this will give you an idea as to what is possible with Shore Old Boy money. The sleeping giant will be awakened and New will never win another premiership in any sport.

Win/lose/or draw . it's lovely to recline on the verdant carpet that is the Johnson Oval embankment: intermittently glancing skyward to marvel at the undercarriage of a dipping European airbus, the spray of spent fuel and other miscellanous discharge cascading ever so lightly, tip tapping the thinning scalps of rugby enthusiasts from Lindfield to Woolloware alike as they root oh so feverishly for their beloved Wyvern chested XV.

ON85 as we have just discussed, none of the Bursary kids are in the 1st XV and so far we havent discovered a one in past years either. If they were using them to buy rugby players you would think they would chose kids good enough to make the team?