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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 818195" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>Thanks for the info. I'll admit to not knowing the first thing about the school system of South Africa so its interesting to have the distinction between private and government schools (I don't think we have any equivalent of government schools up here). Are these schools generally filled with kids from more advantaged backgrounds due to the fees? Do they award scholarships to kids from poorer backgrounds (of all ethnic groups, including whites) like US colleges to incorporate top potential talent into the rugby system?</p><p></p><p>In response to another point in a post above, the perception in Scotland historically is not that private schools "keep the game alive", but that they strangle it as the same people who come through these private schools will run the Rugby Union and "look after their own" as we say. There is a perception historically that individual talent that is not processed through the established private schools with strong rugby teams will be wilfully overlooked in favour of kids who may have less natural ability, but have the "better" school on their CV. This combined with private schools understandably having superior coaching and facilities has historically made the game infuriatingly insular in Scotland, limited the potential playing pool and has contributed to the malaise of the last 20 years where we are having to shamefully scrounge around the southern hemisphere for anyone with a Scottish granny, or that we can lure to become a "project player".</p><p></p><p>The insular nature of the sport is definitely on the way out in Scotland, so hopefully project players will go the way of the Dodo in the next decade even if Pichot doesn't manage to get his way and make it harder (sadly another South African, Cornell Du Preez, is rumoured to be making his Scotland debut in November following naturalisation (or whatever you call it)).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 818195, member: 74121"] Thanks for the info. I'll admit to not knowing the first thing about the school system of South Africa so its interesting to have the distinction between private and government schools (I don't think we have any equivalent of government schools up here). Are these schools generally filled with kids from more advantaged backgrounds due to the fees? Do they award scholarships to kids from poorer backgrounds (of all ethnic groups, including whites) like US colleges to incorporate top potential talent into the rugby system? In response to another point in a post above, the perception in Scotland historically is not that private schools "keep the game alive", but that they strangle it as the same people who come through these private schools will run the Rugby Union and "look after their own" as we say. There is a perception historically that individual talent that is not processed through the established private schools with strong rugby teams will be wilfully overlooked in favour of kids who may have less natural ability, but have the "better" school on their CV. This combined with private schools understandably having superior coaching and facilities has historically made the game infuriatingly insular in Scotland, limited the potential playing pool and has contributed to the malaise of the last 20 years where we are having to shamefully scrounge around the southern hemisphere for anyone with a Scottish granny, or that we can lure to become a "project player". The insular nature of the sport is definitely on the way out in Scotland, so hopefully project players will go the way of the Dodo in the next decade even if Pichot doesn't manage to get his way and make it harder (sadly another South African, Cornell Du Preez, is rumoured to be making his Scotland debut in November following naturalisation (or whatever you call it)). [/QUOTE]
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