Some good chat.
The demographics of the families attending Barker, Knox etc....is changing.
1st generation Chinese and Indian Australians are starting to become a significant proportion of the student body. You'll never see any of these kids with a Gilbert in their hands. Football becomes the default sport for many of them making football team numbers significantly higher than rugby at Barker for 7 or 8 years now. From discussion with many Knox Dad mates it seems, subjectively, a similar circumstance.
A real estate agent mate told me Chinese migrants represent about 80% of the purchasers on the upper north shore of Sydney.
Don't expect rugby to do much other than decline further over the future as much as it saddens me.
Good luck to all teams today.