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38-24 to Barker. Trial played in 3 x 20min thirds with lots of continuous changes, but Barker the overall better drilled side. Joeys with some work to do.

Ollie Schmude was Joeys 2nds halfback in 22, great player but kept out of the 1s by Sharples.

difficult when you get conflicting reports

Joeys beat High 56-7, not 34-7, The AAGPS website is wrong.

playing No10 in the 2nds

no big news there - Joeys go to camp at Kingscliff every year.

not quite - 10 in the 1sts, 4 in the 2nds and one (from Joeys 2nds0 in the 3rds. The one to miss out was a reserve. There were 7 Aus Schoolboys and 12 NSW Schoolboys in that side.

with Kings now (almost) a lay-down misere for the chocolates, interest turns to the race for the Silver Medal in the 1sts comp. Joeys will back themselves to win all 4 remaining games (vE(h), vN(a), vI(h), vK(a)) and will be hoping Riverview drop 2 games (vK and vJ the likely contenders) and...

well done TG - the history of the choice of Cerise & Blue has always had a bit of doubt about it, with many theories being offered, most related to horse-racing colours. In 1981, Br Michael Naughtin wrote his impressive history of Joeys called "A Century of Striving", and on p134 it said: on...

for those interested, the U20 Aus v NZ game on the weekend, the replay is here [no sound and no score posted] Junior Wallabies v New Zealand U20s 1 Jack Barrett 2. Max Craig 3. Massimo De Lutiis 4. Daniel Maiava-Tapusoa 5. Jhy Legg 6. Lachlan Hooper 7. Ned Slack-Smith 8. John Bryant 9. Teddy...

surprised to see Barrett in there - my understanding is that the U19 squad was meant to give kids who were too old for the U18s a chance to impress ahead of selection of next year's U20s. World Rugby doesn't have an U19 tournament any more since it was merged with the old U21 to form the U20s a...

Joeys 1sts played Marist Canberra (and won 83-15) and Joeys 2nds played Marist Ashgrove 1sts and drew 12-12. I don't know which Barker team struggled against Ashgrove just recently, but I suspect Barker might really struggle against Nudgee on Saturday.

wrong on both counts, Macca

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article in today's SMH