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It’s game day people. Everything ratchets up 4 notches. No more niceties and worrying about fixtures for next year with opposing convenors juggling lopsided contests. No more kicking early in phase play. No more masking positions or attacking shapes. Kings by 15+ : and would have been 12 more...

Have been overseas for month and missed all the action.......Joker gone? Really?? Say it isn’t so! I like your tips for the week Quick Hands. Joeys and Kings will be close. Restlessly, Joeys have made more changes in search of the perfect combination running out the man mountain 5th former Greer...

You raise some very valid points Show and go, and yes, I concede that the Matt’s experience for Tyrell will be invaluable, but we need to also remember that the players from the opposing schools mentioned in the above post all played finals football in the same competition 12 months ago; with...

Joker, intel suggests the country kids won’t change SDW’s suggested line-up (if that is what Joeys ultimtely run with). What could change things up though, is the NSW 2018 Gen Blue number 9 that has commenced at the school this year in Year 11. Joeys, however, is certainly not short on halfbacks...

Seriously good news concernedcranbrookmum - the more teams genuinely competing at the top level the better for everyone; and with the powerful rugby supporters group behind the school program (as it most certainly is), frankly, better results should be expected. So who are these menacing...

Agree with your view re Waverley being the front runners Rod, and to be honest, will think it an upset if any opposition team gets within 20 of them during the regular CAS season. The likes of Volkman, ably supported by Moretti and Milford terrorizing teams up front, putting big bodies through...

I didn’t attend the school, so have no personal reference, but from what I’m told, it’s the exact opposite now SDW. As Joker opines above, it really doesn’t matter who you are, what representative teams you have or haven’t made, or who your old man is. The NSW schoolboy from the b’s is behind...

Joker is right about View’s tough draw last year, and the excruciatingly close few years against the Marists across the river. In terms of next year there are a number of very handy Year 11 and even Year 10 (Bird) footballers from View’s 2018 1st XV. Equally exciting is the batch of 16’s age...

Absolutely awesome history and detail thanks Joker. Mental imagery of Kevin O’Kane’s “old school” motivational techniques being publicly and very vocally broadcast and bouncing off the gymnasium walls like an air raid siren easily accessed in one’s mind!

That is a seriously good suggestion Rich_E and one that makes some sense when you think about it. The kid is super tough and a good footballer, but looked lost at times in the games I watched him in. Particularly when defending quickly changing shapes and numbers running at him like often...

Such a good point you raise SDW. Joeys have been, and largely successfully, playing that downtrodden/underdog/poor cousin/siege mentality piece for decades. A belief that anyone who raises their head for his own benefit requires immediate decapitation! No school captain, no prefects, no sports...

A very good point you raise Black & White about the 150th celebration in 2020. Serious impotous. For Kings a big part of their success or otherwise will rest on where they play Sua'ali'i, which this season will presumably be at 15 or 13. The kid is a phenomenal talent, but the good teams will...

Agree with your suggestion for Clifton SDW. Would be dangerous there as a ball playing forward. The inside backs this year, particularly Kings and Newington, will be too slick to have lazy lateral defenders. Not sure I agree re the Joeys backs lacking size from what I’ve seen and heard, with the...