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Johnnie Wallace (23)
Things are one the rise here (I'd like to believe) but there is still a serious gulf between Australian club and American club rugby.
Thanks for that insight Rugger. The one thing you have which will accelerate you past many rugby nations is your college sports system. Researching some US study options I was pleasantly surprised to find most universties had a rugby program. And nearly all embraced the 15 man game, sevens rugby and women's rugby as well. Cal, Cal Poly, Dartmouth and Yale (women) seem to be taking giant steps because of their scholarship support of rugby. I watched the final between Cal and Cal Poly (2011?) and rated the rugby very highly. I remember reading somewhere that our very own Bruce Ross spent time in the US studying the college sports programs and used this knowledge to turn USyd's fortunes around. There are those, I've heard, who observed that his notes on 'NCAA Regulation Skullduggery' required their own suitcase and cost him $300 in excess baggage! With the added attraction of sevens (olympics) and womens rugby (gender scholarship equity) there is every reason to believe that US rugby's rise could be as fast and as successful as that of USydney's.