The Road trips are quite a novelty, it's a shame a few more country teams aren't in.. any big schools in Cobar, Moree or West Wyalong, we don't get enough out of geography lessons any more
Road trips were good when you turned-up at Stannies or Pats Goulburn and had to play a bunch of Farm Lads who pulled Ploughs around the Main Oval in the Off-season for Fun!... Frozen Fields and Big Bastards that you couldn't at first work out how to knock down... But you need the Boarders to make it interesting.
I have always been surprised that TAS does not make better use of its' membership in GPS - It is a good college with good facilities, and Tamworth is not really that far... Maybe it would do better in ISA.
I was really referring to several posts in these forums that suggest that Crossing the Harbour Bridge was "so far to travel" for these poor sooks - Where in God's Name are we instilling our Kids with a SENSE OF ADVENTURE these days??
We used to turn up in Bowral on a freezing wet June Day, with their Concrete-like Pitch, and (as I recall) a couple of steel irrigation plates around the field that the 5/8s would then try to kick to - and the only consolation was some Hot Meat Pies - and at least in latter years - The Girls from when Chev was co-ed coming down to watch the game... Bloody Bliss for a 16 year old kid!
Then there was the Fish & Chips in Newspaper from the Goulburn Chippy before heading home along the Highway, and having a yarn in the car with your mates...