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I’ve been looking into Junior rugby league and have noticed that Balmain’s Junior League games appear to be played on Sundays.
This is different to most other districts who play on Saturdays until Under-15s.
I was wondering if this is always the case with Balmain or when the switch was made and the reasons why?
Also interested to hear whether it has worked better having the games on Sundays? Are more kids playing now?
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I’ve been looking into Junior rugby league and have noticed that Balmain’s Junior League games appear to be played on Sundays.
This is different to most other districts who play on Saturdays until Under-15s.
I was wondering if this is always the case with Balmain or when the switch was made and the reasons why?
Also interested to hear whether it has worked better having the games on Sundays? Are more kids playing now?
We (North Sydney) used to play sunday from U/13s onward from memory. I’m guessing it’s all to do with ground availability. Possibly the yawnion crowd use some of the same grounds on a Saturday?
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My young blokes played Balmain JRL for 10 years now, its always been Sundays and worked well with him playing union which lots of his mates did too… until union started to split their comps into Sat & Sun’s…maybe the union thing was part of the initial reason, dunno
In the time hes been there one new and one revived club has been added to the balmain comp…so its growing…though numbers drop rapidly from 13’s on
Good luck with Lane Cove Girv…well done!! :master:
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when i played in the north sydney comp, we started playing on sundays in under 15s, which worked well as union was on saturdays. as far as i know balmain comp has always been on sunday. i assumed it was because union was on saturdays, but i dont know for sure.
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when i played in the north sydney comp, we started playing on sundays in under 15s, which worked well as union was on saturdays. as far as i know balmain comp has always been on sunday. i assumed it was because union was on saturdays, but i dont know for sure.
It was younger back in the 80s when I started playing in the Norths comp. I think U/12s was the last game on Saturday - we were in the 12s GF at North Sydney Oval and we were the final game.
I read something about Lane Cove making a comeback. I was also surprised to read West Pymble don’t have a team anymore. In our comp we had Berowra, Asquith, Pennant Hills (as they were then), Brothers, and West Pymble. There were Hills Hawks and Crows Nest when I first started but they dropped out by the 13s.
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when i played in the north sydney comp, we started playing on sundays in under 15s, which worked well as union was on saturdays. as far as i know balmain comp has always been on sunday. i assumed it was because union was on saturdays, but i dont know for sure.
It was younger back in the 80s when I started playing in the Norths comp. I think U/12s was the last game on Saturday - we were in the 12s GF at North Sydney Oval and we were the final game.
I read something about Lane Cove making a comeback. I was also surprised to read West Pymble don’t have a team anymore. In our comp we had Berowra, Asquith, Pennant Hills (as they were then), Brothers, and West Pymble. There were Hills Hawks and Crows Nest when I first started but they dropped out by the 13s.
Good to see there’s another north Sydney junior on the wtf yoss! It’s quite a small comp so there wouldn’t be many of us. How good was it playing the grand finals on north Sydney oval! I love that place. We played there in 12s, 14s, 15s (all on Saturday, though 15s the rest of the season was on Sunday’s) and then played 16s gf on the Sunday. We had penno (who I played for), Asquith, hills hawks, berowra, willoughy in the early yrs and brothers in the later yrs. Never had west Pymble or crows nest, they must’ve folded.
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Yeah West Pymble played in Souths colours. They were okay in our grade. Crows Nest only were in our comp for one year and got absolutely smashed every game. Did you enjoy those trips up to Warrina Oval? Storey Park was the worst ground (IMO) in the comp. The cricket pitch area was a nightmare… Tunks Oval was probably the best regular season ground. Used to hate having to go over to play Hills Hawks. Always some ground in the middle of nowhere (at least in those days) with every chance they wouldn’t be able to field a side.
Willoughby weren’t even a factor in NS juniors back then. I’m guessing Crows Nest may have morphed into them.
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Here’s a nice history.
http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=7-1125-0-0-0&sID=13507
Northern Districts, Willoughby, Northbridge, North Sydney United were non-existent when I played. Hornsby and McMahons Point had senior teams but no juniors. Penno, Berowra, Asquith, and Brothers had teams pretty much across the board. Hills Hawks and West Pymble had teams in most grades. Crows Nest and Lane Cove had a team here or there
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i used to hate going to warrina street! theyd always get a good crowd out there n they used to heckle us once we got a bit older. and storey park was a shocker! rock hard in the middle. appreciated being an outside back whenever we played there! hah yeah hawks ground was always at dural park which is kinda in the middle of nowhere even nowadays. only played at tunks park a couple of times (including my first ever game) and yeah i agree that ground was quite good to play on. thanks for the linkm interesting read!
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I’ve been looking into Junior rugby league and have noticed that Balmain’s Junior League games appear to be played on Sundays.
This is different to most other districts who play on Saturdays until Under-15s.
I was wondering if this is always the case with Balmain or when the switch was made and the reasons why?
Also interested to hear whether it has worked better having the games on Sundays? Are more kids playing now?
Girvie, write to Chris Karas at http://www.weeklytimes.com.au/
If anyone would know its him…author of From fraser to farah -
My young blokes played Balmain JRL for 10 years now, its always been Sundays and worked well with him playing union which lots of his mates did too… until union started to split their comps into Sat & Sun’s…maybe the union thing was part of the initial reason, dunno
In the time hes been there one new and one revived club has been added to the balmain comp…so its growing…though numbers drop rapidly from 13’s on
Good luck with Lane Cove Girv…well done!! :master:
Thanks for this. I figured that it would partly be to avoid clashes with other sports. Good to see that the Balmain comp is growing.
As for Lane Cove Tigers, yes they are reforming and holding an information tomorrow (Thursday) at 7pm at Lane Cove Public School and also holding a Come and Try session on the school oval for boys and girls aged 5-12. It’s great to see that there is enough interest locally to reform the club. Anyone interested in being a part of it or who has a child wishing to play can send me a private message with the details.
Yossarian and Steve-O - There is also interest in re-establishing a side in the Ku-ring gai area - perhaps at West Pymble again. So the Norths district in on the improve - certainly helped by the growing Central Coast Bears bid. Did any of the guys who you played with or against go onto NRL/first grade?
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I played in BDJRL and i always played sundays and that was 20 years ago.
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My young blokes played Balmain JRL for 10 years now, its always been Sundays and worked well with him playing union which lots of his mates did too… until union started to split their comps into Sat & Sun’s…maybe the union thing was part of the initial reason, dunno
In the time hes been there one new and one revived club has been added to the balmain comp…so its growing…though numbers drop rapidly from 13’s on
Good luck with Lane Cove Girv…well done!! :master:
Thanks for this. I figured that it would partly be to avoid clashes with other sports. Good to see that the Balmain comp is growing.
As for Lane Cove Tigers, yes they are reforming and holding an information tomorrow (Thursday) at 7pm at Lane Cove Public School and also holding a Come and Try session on the school oval for boys and girls aged 5-12. It’s great to see that there is enough interest locally to reform the club. Anyone interested in being a part of it or who has a child wishing to play can send me a private message with the details.
Yossarian and Steve-O - There is also interest in re-establishing a side in the Ku-ring gai area - perhaps at West Pymble again. So the Norths district in on the improve - certainly helped by the growing Central Coast Bears bid. Did any of the guys who you played with or against go onto NRL/first grade?
thatd be great if they could get a west pymble team up and running again, there realy isnt much league on the north shore. i played against will hopoate though that was only when we had a combined comp with manly. as for the north sydney juniors, no ones played first grade yet though a guy from asquith has played manly under 20s the last two yrs and is apparantly held in quite high regard so itll be interesting to see if he gets a run in the next couple of yrs or so
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thatd be great if they could get a west pymble team up and running again, there realy isnt much league on the north shore. i played against will hopoate though that was only when we had a combined comp with manly. as for the north sydney juniors, no ones played first grade yet though a guy from asquith has played manly under 20s the last two yrs and is apparantly held in quite high regard so itll be interesting to see if he gets a run in the next couple of yrs or so
Sounds like you would have played with or against:
Jayson Lombardo Penno/Cronulla
Michael McDougall Penno/Manly
Magnus Stromquist Asquith/Manly
Sione Ala Asquith/Manly
Scott England Asquith/South Sydney
Jason Seage Asquith/Parramatta
Nabeel Siddiqui Willoughby/Manly -
I’ve been looking into Junior rugby league and have noticed that Balmain’s Junior League games appear to be played on Sundays.
This is different to most other districts who play on Saturdays until Under-15s.
I was wondering if this is always the case with Balmain or when the switch was made and the reasons why?
Also interested to hear whether it has worked better having the games on Sundays? Are more kids playing now?
Don’t know how this got to be the Teddy Bear JRL wrap but it is great to hear that old clubs are making come backs, to answer your question the Balmain JL has had steady growth over the last 5 years. Playing Sundays allows for a lot of the Soccer kids to play league particularly in the younger age groups. There are also quite a few who go to private schools who have School sport Saturdays so have the option to play League on a Sunday.
I started playing JL in Balmain in 1972 and can’t remember it ever being played on a Saturday.
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