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I saw Papantoniou play last year and rate him highly. Not sure If Kings are real contenders just yet. I probably don't have them in the top 3. But luckily we will have lots of trials to assess form and re-evaluate before season proper. Papa only had 2 standout games in 2nds and the one...

Few other handy types in that 2012 group. Zylstra, Savala, Lussick, Strang & Wilson who are prominent in top level association school comps. 2010 I recognise about 13 who played CAS and GPS firsts this year. (Another 2 if not for misadventure (IMO) would have) Totally agree about the...

Kings to start off - 2016 1. Hick Y12 1sts 2. Lou Y12 2nds 3. Papantoniou 2nds 4. Williams Y12 1sts 5. 6. Lynch Y11 16A 7. Brown Y12 1sts 8. Mackenzie Wood 16A 9. 10. 11. Duckworth Y12 1sts 12...

Bell, Janson, Titmus, McCormack, Afeaki, Endermann and Lewis have all been amongst the best of their age group (U16 2016) and played a lot of club and rep together for 3/4 years. Mind you they played like strangers when I saw them at TKS this year. Endermann and Bell many would consider best of...

Re Grounds - I gather some are talking about Doyle fields, Kings back fields as told by Kings parents that some were wet and a bit boggy on the weekend. Having been up close on both SJC #1 and The White Oval a few times this year, they are far and above in quality in comparison with all the...

Kings with the lead 15 min to go looked all over Riv but Osborne after taking a very good penalty kick just early failed to take the points with an easier kick and taking the game beyond Riv with less than 5 to go. After failing to convert his earlier try from a kickable possie, lot of doubt if...

SJC v Kings. Last game Kings seem to have the edge in the forwards, while Joeys outside backs in particular kept the scores close. Kings holding on in the end. I think we will see the same this weekend except Joeys backs now much more settled and with Wilkinson, McTaggart and J Williams, with...

Suggest there is too many boof-heads blocking the door for more women to be involved or directing them to the social committee at junior clubs. It is a massive loss to our development we are not further down the track by not having more women and mums at the top of juniors. Mosman president and...

The ARU missive spells it out as far as the reformation of the U16 National Carnival IN 2017. Suggest U17s will have National Opens as theIR pathway. But massively agree with AS, that ARU need a big push into CHS and CCC to re-establish pathways the kids can identify with at 16s and Opens and...

19th July 2016 Attention: Game Development Managers, School Associations, Junior Associations, Referee Associations As you would be aware the last three years has seen significant changes in our Elite player pathways. The Junior Gold Cup was introduced at U15 and U17 level and replaced...

Pulver as did his predecessor gets the blame for all that ills us. In this regard I think we are the harshest of critics. No doubt the decline in school rugby outside private schools (in NSW) is very sad for the game and ARU can wear the blame but we never had the funds that League and AFL have...

It was only discussed early in the week that both the White Oval and SJC # 1 quality surfaces that this competition deserves compared to what Riv are offering up. Fair to say SIC main oval wouldn't recover to well from the heavy weeks use if it was used.

Never knew Frost played for Gordon? Haven't seen his name in any representative rugby over the years, i might be wrong. Mr Touch Finder Frost last I knew as a young bloke was playing juniors at Hornsby. Once at Knox may have given away juniors. Silk I thought a Lane Cove boy ? Not aware of him...

Also does anyone know what junior districts all these guys come from? Just that I am aware of - Gordon - 10 Ongasia (was originally a Manly rep) N. Brown, Peitsch, Frost, Terry, Rorke, Armstrong, Silk, K. Brown, Basson Norths - 5 Jaffer - Williams, Jeavons Fellows...

Big thanks to Hunters Hill and all those at Sydney and Country for putting a lot of effort in to get tonight's games vs GPS to happen. It was one of our own who puts the time and effort into organising these fixtures. Pretty poor I thought Tuesday that the organisation can't go to the effort...