LMAO@U/19's! Perhaps we should send our JWC U/20's team to tour the UK. They came a respectful 7/8th this year did they not? I know they lost to the Ireland U/20's so they should be relatively competitive as far as U/18's go!
At least Ireland are making the two Schools matches available on tour - not against their national schools team, but our boys will play Munster Schools and Leinster Schools.
Thank you Ireland.
England teams will be hard to compete against. They have been virtually full-time trainers since they left school in May or June and will look like men against boys physically when they run on the field.
And they won't be distracted by studying for their HSC and doing exams as some of their Aussie opponents are doing now.
Back in the day Oz Schools got to play only against lads who were currently at school, but that tradition ended, and now our visit is seen as little more than a filtering project for their junior selection pathway.
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