Joeys as a team have been the biggest improvers over the season in Sydney schoolboy rugby by a country mile. Barker definitely got the better of them early in the year but I think you’d see a totally different team now. Joeys big 4 of Barrett, Fowler, Leahy & M Jorgensen have been dynamic for them, GPS which one comfortably over CAS, and the NSW side which did the same over Qld.
Fowler was a big out in that trial game and when all 4 are playing together that side from upfront to out wide is a pleasure to watch.
It’s a shame that we don’t get the chance to see how it would pan out and have to speculate on the result. Many of us would like to see a broadened schoolboy competition where games were not considered trials but a genuine competition to find the best team each year and let them face the same from Qld. Unfortunately tweed jacket politics will never allow it and rugby suffers for it in Australia.