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David Wilson (68)
^^^ It's not helping them to win AAGPS Rugby Premierships.
I reckon that you have found a spotted red herring.
The reddest of red herrings
^^^ It's not helping them to win AAGPS Rugby Premierships.
I reckon that you have found a spotted red herring.
Rugby girl may need to watch that video on you tube.Just had a look at one of the annual reports of which you speak.
http://www.joeys.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/SJCIF-2011.pdf
It highlights the achievements of aboriginal ex-students - none of them appear to be sports stars. They appear to be just ordinary people making a go of life.
I think you're barking up the wrong tree with this.
Think you are barking up the wrong tree with the pinks indigenous programme. More worrying is the parachuting of quality rugby players into years 8 and 9. 2 of which have been touted as next year first XV players.
Think you are barking up the wrong tree with the pinks indigenous programme. More worrying is the parachuting of quality rugby players into years 8 and 9. 2 of which have been touted as next year first XV players.
A couple of years ago there was a recipient of a joeys indigenous scholarship on a talent show on tv. He went through to the final rounds with his chosen talent being pole dancing. Is this classified as an elite sport? Do we include him in the same realm as Beale?
HJ's analysis of the lesser number of posts this year in the Sydney GPS 2014 thread (by a massive amount) bears thinking about.
Talking with some parents at length at Shore they were observing, unprompted, the small levels of support for Scots and Newington when they each played at Northbridge earlier this season.
I noticed there were very few NC boys at TKS for their first round clash.
They thought that the rumours of recruiting had harmed the spirit that lay behind the historically large crowds: kids identified more readily with the 1st XV when its quality was organically determined.
Food for thought.
There would no doubt be something in this. I noticed on Saturday that there weren't many Scots boys at Stanmore.
Although, historically I think, that the schools without a big boarding contingent tend to have less supporters at games - particularly away games. Joeys, Riverview and Kings traditionally have a big captive audience of boarders to stay and watch the firsts and Shore have the big north shore demographic and a fairly big boarding community as well. I'm not sure how big the boarding is at Scots and I don't think Newington have many boarders at all - so in that respect the comparison may be a little unfair.
These people were comparing the change in the time their own children had been at school.
HJ's analysis of the lesser number of posts this year in the Sydney GPS 2014 thread (by a massive amount) bears thinking about.
Talking with some parents at length at Shore they were observing, unprompted, the small levels of support for Scots and Newington when they each played at Northbridge earlier this season.
I noticed there were very few NC boys at TKS for their first round clash.
They thought that the rumours of recruiting had harmed the spirit that lay behind the historically large crowds: kids identified more readily with the 1st XV when its quality was organically determined.
Food for thought.
Whilst I agree that your observations provide food for thought, IMO there is another reason for the lesser number of posts in the NSW GPS 2014 thread compared with the 2013 thread.
You started the 2013 thread on 14 October 2011. It therefore had a much longer gestation period than most "next season" threads. By contrast, the 2014 thread commenced on 17 June 2013.
IMHO This looks to me like an irregularity... Or an anomaly...Whilst I agree that your observations provide food for thought, IMO there is another reason for the lesser number of posts in the NSW GPS 2014 thread compared with the 2013 thread.
You started the 2013 thread on 14 October 2011. It therefore had a much longer gestation period than most "next season" threads. By contrast, the 2014 thread commenced on 17 June 2013.
IMHO This looks to me like an irregularity. Or an anomaly.
Maybe everybody just got sick and tired of waiting for the Sao to be thrown into the middle of one particular group of people
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