Public vs Private Schools

[buddy2fernando]

Listening to Max Gawn on 360 tonight and he mentioned how only 4-5 players on the Melbourne list came from a public school and he believes the majority of footballers are from private schools due to the fact they are tought early how to work hard, discipline etc.
I thought it to be quite an interesting observation and want to know the rest of BigFooty's thoughts.

 

[Hoops]

If you are that good at footy you are more likely to be sent to a private school.

 

[t_94]

If you are that good at footy you are more likely to be sent to a private school.

Or get a scholarship to one

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

the majority of footballers are from private schools due to the fact they are tought early how to work hard, discipline etc.

Yes this is totally the reason.

 

[DrZaius]

I can see this thread going well.

 

[Donakebab]

Listening to Max Gawn on 360 tonight and he mentioned how only 4-5 players on the Melbourne list came from a public school and he believes the majority of footballers are from private schools due to the fact they are tought early how to work hard, discipline etc.
I thought it to be quite an interesting observation and want to know the rest of BigFooty's thoughts.

Clearly that private school brainwashing worked.

 

[wallyt99]

What a numpty... Good footy players get scholarships to private schools.

Private school kids taught to work hard? Is that before or after you take the silver spoon out?

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Melbourne have been working real hard these last five years good thing they taught them that at private school.

 

[La Dispute]

Studies have shown that students from private schools are more likely to get into professional football and end up making a lot more money, while wife-beaters and rapists are nearly all public-school-educated.

 

[Super Hans]

Is it really a surprise? If you show anything close to AFL quality by year 10 a private school will give you a scholarship.

 

[Smoocher]

Listening to Max Gawn on 360 tonight and he mentioned how only 4-5 players on the Melbourne list came from a public school and he believes the majority of footballers are from private schools due to the fact they are tought early how to work hard, discipline etc.
I thought it to be quite an interesting observation and want to know the rest of BigFooty's thoughts.

Agree, public school system is a joke in all aspects.

 

[Power Raid]

I would suggest its a combination of things like:

1) country kids are sent to the city to go to private schools
2) private schools usually have compulsory sports commitments where public schools couldn't careless

 

[AM]

If you are that good at footy you are more likely to be sent to a private school.

Irony, right?

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

This may come as some shock to my southern cousins, but in NSW and Qld, there are actually two codes of rugby, namely rugby union (ie "Rugby" the original) and rugby league (ie "League", the breakaway code formed a hundred or so years ago).

Now, one of the defining points of difference between these two codes (who to a large extent hate each other's guts) is that Rugby is played almost exclusively at private schools, and League almost entirely at state schools.

It prompts me to ask my southern cousins, how on earth do the posh snobs and the hoi polloi effectively express their mutual disdain, if both private and public schools all play the same code of football?

 

[adammania9]

Studies have shown that students from private schools are more likely to get into professional football and end up making a lot more money, while wife-beaters and rapists are nearly all public-school-educated.

Some public students I know don't even have foxtel

 

[Suma Magic]

This may come as some shock to my southern cousins, but in NSW and Qld, there are actually two codes of rugby, namely rugby union (ie "Rugby" the original) and rugby league (ie "League", the breakaway code formed a hundred or so years ago).

Now, one of the defining points of difference between these two codes (who to a large extent hate each other's guts) is that Rugby is played almost exclusively at private schools, and League almost entirely at state schools.

It prompts me to ask my southern cousins, how on earth do the posh snobs and the hoi polloi effectively express their mutual disdain, if both private and public schools all play the same code of football?

They both laugh at rugby?

 

[Martyn_30_]

Stringer left school at 15 so it can't be that important


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[La Dispute]

And even if they are not on scholarships, lots would join schools specifically so they can play school footy. Scotch, Xavier etc.

 

[dmc333]

Bummed a smoke off Robbo at the end of the interview.

 

[Heaps of fun]

And even if they are not on scholarships, lots would join schools specifically so they can play school footy. Scotch, Xavier etc.

If they can afford it.

 

[La Dispute]

If they can afford it.

Which many can, given the surrounding suburbs.

 

[FootyGeek]

Listening to Max Gawn on 360 tonight and he mentioned how only 4-5 players on the Melbourne list came from a public school and he believes the majority of footballers are from private schools due to the fact they are tought early how to work hard, discipline etc.
I thought it to be quite an interesting observation and want to know the rest of BigFooty's thoughts.

Not helping the Mt Buller stereotype there Mr Gawn.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Yes this is totally the reason.

Haha. My teachers failed me then.

 

[Sttew]

There's a private school in a Melbourne bayside suburb that has an ex AFL coach coaching its football team. It won the last 2 APS titles. Melbourne currently as 4 ex students from this school, all of who started in primary school. No scholarships, just passion

 

[Hollow Sorrow]

I public skool no thing bad me.