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Ok - so he is 17 and makes the 2 year rule. Still smells bad to me. Plenty of young blokes who played Colts 1 this year who are head and shoulders above and more eligible. This sort of preferential crap/ not transparent selection process has to stop if we want to keep good young blokes in...

Can someone explain/enlighten me as to how a Nudgee schoolboy (who is only in Grade 11 I believe) is selected in the Brisbane NRC Under 19 side? I suspect the olde "development" card is being played but it is an insult to the Colts players (and who are the right age) who have toiled away over...

And how much has it cost $ them?? I suggest TSS, Nudge and BBC form their own Scholarship Division next year and play each other 3 times and maybe then BBC might get a return for their investment finally.

I agree the large selections of the Bond Uni players based on the team's and individual performances by the Bond Uni?Queensland Country coach is a huge conflict of interest. Why is this BS continually allowed to happen. Who is checking this process? Similarly, a number of the City selections...

I should also add that Churchie do the best coffee via their own barista team, not the drive-by divvie vans. The Hot Chips this year were also a special.

On to more important things.....which school is dishing up the best steak/hamburgers this season? I know it's early for this MasterChef round but I thought I would steer the conversations away from the perennial BBC bleating to something of more substance and interest to all. For mine...

Sadly, the referee had a major influence in the Colts 2 Minor Semi-Final. There should have been an adult refereeing the game at least, not a 19 year old peer. Two howlers of decisions (1. over-ruling a linesmen who called out and awarded a Brothers try 2. calling a Uni try held up after the...

The insurance companies and lawyers are well involved in this discussion. The arms race that has become GPS rugby is a huge liability.

The 1st XV competition has become a joke (read "arms race" of scholarships/importing, NRL conscripts, 3 year completion of Grades 11-12 etc). I trust that in the soon to come years/s that the tiered competition like AAGPS that Nudgee, TSS and BCC enjoy playing each other twice (home and away)...

The arm's race that become GPS Rugby has only itself to blame as I posted some weeks back. What we are hearing now is just the beginning of more dysfunction. Very sad, because it is just a game played by schoolboys (....well in some cases).

fyi - Nudgee's last Rhodes Scholar was 35 years ago!

Not one segment in this video showing these boys in the classroom.......says a lot about the school and the importance it places on education and balancing learning and rugby. Sad.

UQ were not helped by some very dubious ref decisions and too many missed conversions. When UQ kicked into gear in the first half they had it all over the Doggies but went to sleep in the second half thinking the job done. Wests 9 and Wood played very well to expose a tired UQ pack late in the...

Sadly, the "arms race" (and doing Grades 11-12 over 3 years BS) that has become GPS rugby will be it's undoing.....perhaps sooner than 3-4 years. The insurance companies and lawyers are well involved.

I agree the selection of academy players (who have finished/left the school system) is an insult to the genuine/attending schoolboys who trialled and played school games and schoolboy selection trials/games this season.

Spot on!!.. too many vicarious parents with agendas. Get back to work all of you and let the boys enjoy their school days and their rugby without this rubbish.

Yes - the stats are not good if these are correct. These numbers highlight the issue of schools increasingly giving scholarships to contracted/soon to be contracted rugby league players. The number of GPS school "recruiters" hanging around junior rugby league titles (Under 12's State titles...