Robbie Deans was unflustered by the result
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Glenn Jackson reviews a bizarre day down under as an inexperienced league team beat the cream of the union crop in The Sydney Morning Herald.
" Their coach refused to learn the rules and the players trained with soccer balls, but somehow Keebra Park High, the best rugby league school in the country, did what many at the Australian Rugby Union must have considered unthinkable and beat them at their own game.
The Gold Coast school yesterday defeated the cream of young rugby talent across NSW, Queensland and ACT to win the ARU Schools Sevens, as the battle between the codes took a bizarre turn. The very fact they were invited to compete - after winning the Queensland section of the tournament earlier this year - must have many believing the decision should have been thrown in the ''what-were-we-thinking?'' basket."
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