a lot of their past players/community went nuts a couple of years ago when they started paying a few blokes. they believe rightly or wrongly that the "old school tie" should be enough insentive for blokes to come and play for the old scholars. they have the same ideals about the amount of non old scholars playing for the club. at a rough guess there would be 4-5 in the A-grade for SPOC
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teaoby wrote:a lot of their past players/community went nuts a couple of years ago when they started paying a few blokes. they believe rightly or wrongly that the "old school tie" should be enough insentive for blokes to come and play for the old scholars. they have the same ideals about the amount of non old scholars playing for the club. at a rough guess there would be 4-5 in the A-grade for SPOC
You'd reckon an old scholar would be able to spell incentive!
teaoby wrote:a lot of their past players/community went nuts a couple of years ago when they started paying a few blokes. they believe rightly or wrongly that the "old school tie" should be enough insentive for blokes to come and play for the old scholars. they have the same ideals about the amount of non old scholars playing for the club. at a rough guess there would be 4-5 in the A-grade for SPOC
I suppose they are lucky that like PAOC and Sacred Heart they have a strong college side and the boys are a close knit group. Otherwise they wouldnt be able to be so picky as to having or not having old scholars. What would happen if the school had 4-5 lean years in the college comp, would that effect them in 10 years in the old collegians side?
teaoby wrote:a lot of their past players/community went nuts a couple of years ago when they started paying a few blokes. they believe rightly or wrongly that the "old school tie" should be enough insentive for blokes to come and play for the old scholars. they have the same ideals about the amount of non old scholars playing for the club. at a rough guess there would be 4-5 in the A-grade for SPOC
I suppose they are lucky that like PAOC and Sacred Heart they have a strong college side and the boys are a close knit group. Otherwise they wouldnt be able to be so picky as to having or not having old scholars. What would happen if the school had 4-5 lean years in the college comp, would that effect them in 10 years in the old collegians side?
too true hence the "old school tie" ideal. in fact fisty Saints are currently having some lean years (by their standards) and i'd guess it will show in years too come.
beards dont kill people, people with beards kill people
teaoby wrote:a lot of their past players/community went nuts a couple of years ago when they started paying a few blokes. they believe rightly or wrongly that the "old school tie" should be enough insentive for blokes to come and play for the old scholars. they have the same ideals about the amount of non old scholars playing for the club. at a rough guess there would be 4-5 in the A-grade for SPOC
I suppose they are lucky that like PAOC and Sacred Heart they have a strong college side and the boys are a close knit group. Otherwise they wouldnt be able to be so picky as to having or not having old scholars. What would happen if the school had 4-5 lean years in the college comp, would that effect them in 10 years in the old collegians side?
The answer to that is probably to take a look at Scotch.
teaoby wrote:a lot of their past players/community went nuts a couple of years ago when they started paying a few blokes. they believe rightly or wrongly that the "old school tie" should be enough insentive for blokes to come and play for the old scholars. they have the same ideals about the amount of non old scholars playing for the club. at a rough guess there would be 4-5 in the A-grade for SPOC
I suppose they are lucky that like PAOC and Sacred Heart they have a strong college side and the boys are a close knit group. Otherwise they wouldnt be able to be so picky as to having or not having old scholars. What would happen if the school had 4-5 lean years in the college comp, would that effect them in 10 years in the old collegians side?
The answer to that is probably to take a look at Scotch.
Scotch have never really had that strong a college team, well they didnt the whole time I was at college.
The teams to beat while at St Micks senior college were ROCS, St Peters, PAC and Sacred Heart. Pembroke were ok but not upto the big 4 teams. We were up there for probs 3-4 years.
what are lean years in there standards though teaoby??
Whilst being a former boarder/student of SHC some 25 yrs ago give or take, outside of what i hear & read through the papers and see online is Sacred Heart's 1st XVIII still the premier side in the private school competition still team the team too beat !?
theEMBRYO wrote:Whilst being a former boarder/student of SHC some 25 yrs ago give or take, outside of what i hear & read through the papers and see online is Sacred Heart's 1st XVIII still the premier side in the private school competition still team the team too beat !?
It hasnt been the last couple of years...PAC has been. SHC no easy beats though.
theEMBRYO wrote:Whilst being a former boarder/student of SHC some 25 yrs ago give or take, outside of what i hear & read through the papers and see online is Sacred Heart's 1st XVIII still the premier side in the private school competition still team the team too beat !?
It hasnt been the last couple of years...PAC has been. SHC no easy beats though.
Yet of recent years (5-10) kids drafted from SHC has been of high number & quality and that SHC had had the upper hand recently against there brother school from victoria in Assumption College Kilmore; if there is another forum on school/college football, i'd like to talk about this more as it's fascinating looking back over the years when football was football to what it's grown to today.
theEMBRYO wrote:Whilst being a former boarder/student of SHC some 25 yrs ago give or take, outside of what i hear & read through the papers and see online is Sacred Heart's 1st XVIII still the premier side in the private school competition still team the team too beat !?
It hasnt been the last couple of years...PAC has been. SHC no easy beats though.
Yet of recent years (5-10) kids drafted from SHC has been of high number & quality and that SHC had had the upper hand recently against there brother school from victoria in Assumption College Kilmore; if there is another forum on school/college football, i'd like to talk about this more as it's fascinating looking back over the years when football was football to what it's grown to today.
Still following it a little since I left SMC in 04 - The top sides over that period from my POV have Been PAC, SHC and SMC. With Rocs not far off the pace, followed by Immanuel and St Peters.
I think Pac are starting to, and will continue to reap rewards of quality players coming into senior footy for the next 3-4 years.
Sadly, a lot of SMC players seem to be headed to Flinders Park
I rekon one of you lads should start a School thread on the Regional footy league board. It is interesting reading and im sure if it was set up more posters would be interested.
theEMBRYO wrote:Whilst being a former boarder/student of SHC some 25 yrs ago give or take, outside of what i hear & read through the papers and see online is Sacred Heart's 1st XVIII still the premier side in the private school competition still team the team too beat !?
It hasnt been the last couple of years...PAC has been. SHC no easy beats though.
Yet of recent years (5-10) kids drafted from SHC has been of high number & quality and that SHC had had the upper hand recently against there brother school from victoria in Assumption College Kilmore; if there is another forum on school/college football, i'd like to talk about this more as it's fascinating looking back over the years when football was football to what it's grown to today.
Still following it a little since I left SMC in 04 - The top sides over that period from my POV have Been PAC, SHC and SMC. With Rocs not far off the pace, followed by Immanuel and St Peters.
I think Pac are starting to, and will continue to reap rewards of quality players coming into senior footy for the next 3-4 years.
Sadly, a lot of SMC players seem to be headed to Flinders Park
still think you can include both ROCS and St Peters in the top few. From what I heard PAC invested alot more time in finding the right borders and offering them the right things to get them there. That is part of the reason they have grown stronger in the past few years. People reckon St Micks will drop off in the coming years as the school has allowed girls from year 8 now, not the traditional 11 as previous years. I dunno what will happen, they made the final this season.
Definately think there should be a college football thread, I would take a big interest in it!!!
So folks...It seems this competition will be a cracker...but for mine ROCS are over rated, SPOC just average and PAOC and Iggies not likely to make an impact, Uni too clever for their own good, Walkerville soft and well that leaves the District sides to smash it out for a top 3 spot....Athelstone - proven failures in the past so tip them for 4th, Mobbury an unknown, Pt Disttricts young and ruderless so maybe it is the PNU yo yos to go down and up again?
Footy Smart wrote:I rekon one of you lads should start a School thread on the Regional footy league board. It is interesting reading and im sure if it was set up more posters would be interested.
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stealthbomber wrote:So folks...It seems this competition will be a cracker...but for mine ROCS are over rated, SPOC just average and PAOC and Iggies not likely to make an impact, Uni too clever for their own good, Walkerville soft and well that leaves the District sides to smash it out for a top 3 spot....Athelstone - proven failures in the past so tip them for 4th, Mobbury an unknown, Pt Disttricts young and ruderless so maybe it is the PNU yo yos to go down and up again?
stealthbomber wrote:So folks...It seems this competition will be a cracker...but for mine ROCS are over rated, SPOC just average and PAOC and Iggies not likely to make an impact, Uni too clever for their own good, Walkerville soft and well that leaves the District sides to smash it out for a top 3 spot....Athelstone - proven failures in the past so tip them for 4th, Mobbury an unknown, Pt Disttricts young and ruderless so maybe it is the PNU yo yos to go down and up again?
PAOC will definately make a big impact! Iggies will be around the mark but wont be a real threat. Have spoken to a bloke who has alot to do with the raggies, he reckons they will struggle hard this season, he even mentioned relegation. Think Modbury will go alright this season. Districts have lost a few, gained some good players so they will definately be around the mark!
I reckon divvy 2 will be very close this year, although you'd have to assume the collegian sides will do very well, and the district sides may struggle, but interesting assessment from Stealthbomber... Paoc should be up there from what I've heard. Who knows tho, have to wait till trial games and the first few rounds! My Dark horse would be walkerville!
stealthbomber wrote:So folks...It seems this competition will be a cracker...but for mine ROCS are over rated, SPOC just average and PAOC and Iggies not likely to make an impact, Uni too clever for their own good, Walkerville soft and well that leaves the District sides to smash it out for a top 3 spot....Athelstone - proven failures in the past so tip them for 4th, Mobbury an unknown, Pt Disttricts young and ruderless so maybe it is the PNU yo yos to go down and up again?
naturally, that's why we're at uni...
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