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[Wash DC Blue]

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Pretty similar at Lliswerry in Newport.
PE teachers were all rugby.
Mr Murphy, an Evertonioan Geography teacher from Liverpool arranged football games after school…but no training.

Things started to change thankfully around 5th year when Mark Tucker who played for Merthyr joined as a PE Teacher.
Great bloke he was.

[Tuerto]

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Drama Queen? Honestly, Lady Mary in 1960s under the Frank Callus regime was a lot more authoritarian than North Korea. Having the dap for walking down the stairs (his room was at the bottom of the stairs and heÂ’d stand guard) on the right hand side, not the left. Chairs desks in the classroom set symmetrically to the floor tiles, move a chair or desk slightly, thatÂ’d be 2 with the cane. My missus forgot her beret one day, Sister Mary Christopher made her stand on the hall stage all day, no lessons for her, just standing there for the duration. DonÂ’t get me wrong, some masters were decent and great teachers but even they were under the thumb.

Frank was there for my first two years. I was caned for wearing the wrong coloured socks on two occasions (socks not cane) then ****ing suspended for a week. (which was great, as long as i intercepted the letter to my parents) I can go on about that school and how it treated footballers, but i won't. because i can't be arsed. Needless to say that there aint no framed photo of Giorgio Chinaglia, who scored 100 goals for Lazio and got 14 caps for Italy and played alongside Pele at New York Cosmos. Yet there are loads of photos of kids who played for Cardiff schools u15 rugby.

[William Treseder]

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Drama Queen? Honestly, Lady Mary in 1960s under the Frank Callus regime was a lot more authoritarian than North Korea. Having the dap for walking down the stairs (his room was at the bottom of the stairs and he’d stand guard) on the right hand side, not the left. Chairs desks in the classroom set symmetrically to the floor tiles, move a chair or desk slightly, that’d be 2 with the cane. My missus forgot her beret one day, Sister Mary Christopher made her stand on the hall stage all day, no lessons for her, just standing there for the duration. Don’t get me wrong, some masters were decent and great teachers but even they were under the thumb.

We seem to have moved on from obsessed PE teachers to school brutality. From what I’ve heard especially from my old man who went to St Frances Junior then St Illtyd’s, attending a Catholic school back in the day was akin to an early century Alcatraz.
Surely Catholic schools have moved on from all that nonsense nowadays.?
My school was rough, but not from treatment from the teachers.

[splott parker]

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We seem to have moved on from obsessed PE teachers to school brutality. From what I’ve heard especially from my old man who went to St Frances Junior then St Illtyd’s, attending a Catholic school back in the day was akin to an early century Alcatraz.
Surely Catholic schools have moved on from all that nonsense nowadays.?
My school was rough, but not from treatment from the teachers.

Of course they’ve moved on but it was you who brought up that our schooldays were akin to North Korea. I replied to this citing certain extreme measures, then Tuerto posted his draconian experiences at the hands of a teacher (Callus, again). Please don’t allude to us being farts or wet lettuces, we weren’t. Your initial responses in this thread sort of said we were lily livered by not standing up and complaining. I stand by what I posted then, 12/13 year old boys can certainly be forgiven for not challenging 40 odd year old bullies.

[William Treseder]

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Of course they’ve moved on but it was you who brought up that our schooldays were akin to North Korea. I replied to this citing certain extreme measures, then Tuerto posted his draconian experiences at the hands of a teacher (Callus, again). Please don’t allude to us being farts or wet lettuces, we weren’t. Your initial responses in this thread sort of said we were lily livered by not standing up and complaining. I stand by what I posted then, 12/13 year old boys can certainly be forgiven for not challenging 40 odd year old bullies.

That only seemed to happen in Catholic schools though?

[splott parker]

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Frank was there for my first two years. I was caned for wearing the wrong coloured socks on two occasions (socks not cane) then ****ing suspended for a week. (which was great, as long as i intercepted the letter to my parents) I can go on about that school and how it treated footballers, but i won't. because i can't be arsed. Needless to say that there aint no framed photo of Giorgio Chinaglia, who scored 100 goals for Lazio and got 14 caps for Italy and played alongside Pele at New York Cosmos. Yet there are loads of photos of kids who played for Cardiff schools u15 rugby.

Chinaglia had left a couple years before I entered form 1 but his legend lived on. Apparently, so the story went and no doubt was embellished over time, he decked Frank Callus over the rugby/football issue. Fat lot of good it did him in the game, he went to Swansea frigging Town��……………….Did a touch more in the game after though :hehe: and, as you say, he was completely erased from our school’s. ‘Hall of fame’. Should have been in combat sport section:hehe:

[Hot Shot Hamish.]

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My experience going to school in Pontypridd ( Hawthorn Comprehensive) in the 70s and very early 80s was the same as most on here. Played rugby all through my school years . When I got to 6th form we were training lunchtimes 5 days a week and playing every Saturday morning and some Wednesday afternoons too. We would rack up around 36 games a season of rugby and play schools all over South Wales and some in the Bristol / Gloucester area too. We won every game for 2 consecutive years and got to the Welsh schools 7 a side final 2 years on the trot.

I also played for the school football team which was run by the chemistry teacher, we would be lucky to get 3 or 4 competitive games a year .

It is absolutely true that we were discouraged from playing football and pushed towards rugby, especially in the early/ mid 70s. However it didn’t make me hate rugby though, I enjoyed playing the game and loved the physical aspect. It didn’t stop me playing football in the yard or up The Common and going to watch Cardiff City home every other Saturday afternoon - though did get some stick over that as we were so poor at the time. I’ve always enjoyed watching football more than rugby and will choose to play and watch football over rugby every single time - but I don’t hate rugby because of it.

The boys who were good at football played it outside school anyway , though I guess there may have been a few rare cases that were “ lost” to football because of the schools bias to rugby it can’t be many.

However no doubting the Welsh media’s bias to rugby over the years. I do believe Wales’s national sport is now football

Football really was an afterthought for us wasn’t it. Amazing to think that Mark Willett was captain of Wales schoolboys and yet we barely had a football side.
It really was a case though that you were treated as a nobody unless you played rugby. I was crap at rugby and played a few 2nd xv games but would much have preferred to have played football. My saving grace was I was a decent cricketer (which we only played a handful of games in 7 years for the school), which meant the P.E teachers had a bit more time for me compared to all the non rugby boys. I’m with you though John. I don’t dislike rugby and always want Wales to win, but give me football every time (well if cricket isn’t available 😂).

[Don Corleone]

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Football really was an afterthought for us wasn’t it. Amazing to think that Mark Willett was captain of Wales schoolboys and yet we barely had a football side.
It really was a case though that you were treated as a nobody unless you played rugby. I was crap at rugby and played a few 2nd xv games but would much have preferred to have played football. My saving grace was I was a decent cricketer (which we only played a handful of games in 7 years for the school), which meant the P.E teachers had a bit more time for me compared to all the non rugby boys. I’m with you though John. I don’t dislike rugby and always want Wales to win, but give me football every time (well if cricket isn’t available 😂).

Haha Gazza, I remember playing for the school cricket team just the once, it was up in Merthyr . The cricket team consisted of you and Mark Fowler ( I think) trying to do everything - batting and bowling - and everyone else was useless at it 😂

[Garth Blue]

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I went to Glan Ely between 79 and 84 we did have all those teams as you say but I've still harboured a grudge towards rugby all my life for so many other reasons.
The total media bias for decades being the major 1.
Welsh Football was always scorned upon by Businesses in Cardiff City centre.
The demise of rugby is great to see, the crowds dropping off, the extortionate price of tickets and the regions collapsing.
The myth of the whole country cares has well and truly disappeared mainly because it went professional and it's not a shilling to get in anymore.
Anyway up the shagging Bluebirds.

Yep. Agree with all. of this. I have many friends who prefer rugby but never for me. I really couldn't care less if Wales win or lose at egg. Except maybe against England. I get pissed off if England win the sheepdog trials.

[Garth Blue]

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That was possibly against us - Afon Taf. The sports teachers always favoured Rugby but our football team was much better - we got to the semi-finals of the UK Coca Cola Cup and lost to Washwood Heath in Birmingham, We had a decent cricket team, mainly due to an eccentric madcap History teacher called John Garland.

[J R Hartley]

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Tresseder has had a mare of Sludge-esque proportions on this thread. Just arguing the toss and contradicting himself.

I don’t think he knows what point he’s trying to make anymore.

Silly Billy

[Heathblue]

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Wasn't easy watching seeing the team get ripped apart, shut the laptop down at the 1st try in the 2nd half to concentrate on the city game.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Typical daft reply from you. If you and your school mates never had the balls to stand up for yourselves back then, then that’s your problem.
I’d also seek psychological assistance if I were you and you’re still traumatised over a PE teacher.

As someone else on this thread has already said, you have made a bit of a fool of yourself here.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Tresseder has had a mare of Sludge-esque proportions on this thread. Just arguing the toss and contradicting himself.

I don’t think he knows what point he’s trying to make anymore.

Silly Billy

Quite.

Embarrassing.

[splott parker]

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Quite.

Embarrassing.

It’s continually hard to work out what his aim is, it’s baffling. 100 people’s experiences are wrong, 1 persons experience is right. It maybe right what’s happened in his past but don’t dispute many others experiences.