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Re travel to Bathurst and Orange, the answer would be yes. I presume they will do what some of the schools who play those teams currently do and play, for example, Stannies and home and Kinross away. They then alternate this each year.

It will be interesting to see how the club championship point scoring system is weighted as this will have a big influence on who gets 2nd and 3rd in the CAS comp. If it is evenly weighted by age group (which I doubt it will be), then I wonder if 2nd and 3rd are less clear cut than Barker and...

Hearing that next season will see the introduction of a combined ISA / CAS competition. I believe some schools have already been advised of this. CAS and ISA will run their own competitions at the commencement of the season. At the end of those competitions, based on a club champs style...

Luckiest man on the field - Shore no.1. Would have been a disaster for him had Shore lost. Playing at the ball and knocking it on off a kickoff that didn't go 10m with 1 minute to go. Thankfully for him all ended well!

Penalty 40m out. Tap taken by no. 4, nothing pass to no. 5, nothing pass to 12, who gives as hospital pass to 13 (who got stripped).

Brain explosion there by Scots!

I am not sure I would say scandalous, but I would say symptomatic of a flawed process… For example, the Norths 10, 12, 13 are excellent players and easily deserved selection in the Sydney team. They have cohesion from Mosman and Norths and were selected in the Sydney Red backline. As a unit...

Hi all, just wondering if you could please tell me the approx number of teams (prep and senior school) that each GPS school has. Thanks

Interesting that 2 Waverly boys got picked straight from their school teams and not via NSWJU State Champs. A bit surprising as these age groups don't have school rep programs, so means that selectors must be watching U14 school matches??

Quote of the year at 57:15: "Will Tom's dad give him the cheese?" "Ohhh, Andy Grey gives Tom Grey a yellow card, father and son relationship." "Not going to be a good dinner tonight"

Snort, My view is that unfortunately this will only happen following a serious litigation against a school / association for exactly the mismatch and resultant injuries that you have mentioned above. The thing that surprises me is that schools are usually so risk adverse and have reams of risk...

22-22 all and Stannies score on the bell to win 27-22.

Last year Stannies had strong wins in the 1sts, 2nds and 16As, so suspect the bookies would have Stannies as favourites for this weekend.

WLF3, like Snort, I have banged on about evenness of match ups before. I don't understand why associations don't ask schools to nominate a 'division' for each of their teams. If the Waverley 14A's nominate as division 1, and the Waverley 14B nominate as division 2 and that was known amongst...

My understanding was that traditionally there was a requirement for A teams to play other A teams in the CAS competition. This requirement didn't apply to lower grade teams and they could be matched however schools agreed. I do know however that last year there were instances whereby, for...

Chatting with some Oakhill parents on the weekend and unlike most of the other CAS, GPS and ISA schools (with obvious exception of Joeys) rugby seems to be booming at Oakhill. Think they mentioned that the U14 had enough trialing to make 6 teams. Presume the problem Oakhill has is finding...

Chatting with friends from Joeys and Oakhill on the weekend and they go by birth year rather than school year.

Ignoring the Opens (and people playing with dispensations), how do your schools structure their “age groups”. Do they play in their school year group or do they play in their birth year age group? Eg. Are the u15 teams all year 10 boys or year 9 and 10 who were born in 2008?

Aloys pre CAS draw has been published. Stannies, Kinross, Sydney Grammer (twice) and Pius (twice). Presume the need to double up on Pius and Grammer comes from needing to find appropriate match ups (both in terms of numbers of teams and standard of play)

Just wondering if anyone has heard anything more from their respective school's re the CAS competition structure this year? Wondering is it was going to be: a. 1 round CAS comp with 6 or so invitationals preceding?? b. 2 round CAS comp with 1 or 2 invitationals preceding?? c. Combined...