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In my opinion, there are a few schools that don't focus enough on academics... It's all up to personal preference. If you have a son who has not much interest in sport but is really into his academics then Grammar and SBHS are great schools. If your son's a rugby nut but doesn't care for...
Yes, but the selective criteria now work hand in hand with that shifting demographic. A lot has changed demographic-wise in the last 50 years. I do not mean this in a hateful way in the slightest just to clarify. Just merely an observation.
SBHS will not change its selective entry criteria because of the simple fact that rugby is not a priority for them, nor is athletics as a whole in reality. As rugby fans, we forget that these private schools are places of education first (excluding Joeys), not just a nursery for wallabies (and...
Straight from the mouth of a player. So yes. Can confirm.
Forgive me for assuming that a crowd who stormed the field, swarming literal schoolboys, holding (and one person throwing) bottles of beer were intoxicated. If they were sober, that doesn’t help your case. Makes your mob look even worse.
Yeah. I don’t know what you mean. I was talking about an apparent knock on during the grounding of a Barker try about 5 years ago leading to a Barker win.
I can now confirm a bottle was thrown… “Real classy”…
The irony is “real classy” is a saying…
My favourite part of the game today was that now I don’t have to hear about you cry about a knock on that occurred 5 years ago. Because you were gifted a try that was a knock on and still lost. The...
That’s what happens when you corner a bloke. Flight or fight response. Only human nature. Also apparently an old boy threw a bottle, trying to confirm though.
There was a full team push and shove in the second half. One of Waverley’s coaching staff grabbed Barker’s 1 by the collar and they were then swarmed by, not only Waverley’s team, but 100 or so drunken Waverley old boys. Real classy.