QLD Premier Rugby 2025

[Elwee's Loo]

Is every club in the comp fielding sevens squads for the off-season?

I hear Heeno is coaching the Bond 7's program and that UQ won't be entering a 7's program and are considering folding as a club all together. I understand UQ have reflected on recent social media posts and have come to the conclusion that any success their club may have had was solely reliant on Heeno and he alone. In his absence UQ will be remaining in some sort of an abyss... (tongue-in-cheek)

 

[SouthernX]

What a shame how some of these clubs are treating 7s rugby

In recent years - we’ve had perennial 15s powerhouses UQ & brothers with a “CBF” attitude when it comes to 7s and last year Souths fired the premiership winning colts coach that looked after 7s program - so they didn’t enter a team.

how does QRU make 7s program/7s circuit great again.

 

[PhilClinton]

What a shame how some of these clubs are treating 7s rugby

In recent years - we’ve had perennial 15s powerhouses UQ & brothers with a “CBF” attitude when it comes to 7s and last year Souths fired the premiership winning colts coach that looked after 7s program - so they didn’t enter a team.

how does QRU make 7s program/7s circuit great again.

Doesn't help that major rugby programs globally are cutting 7s e.g. Ireland recently pulled out.

 

[Wilson]

Not to mention the constant changes in what the world series looks like.

In a different world 7s might have been the perfect path to getting some sort of FA cup/National club competition off the ground, but when World Rugby can't work out how to make the international game work it's that much harder to get anything else serious sorted at the lower levels.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

7s was on a path to stand along legitimacy for a few years there but seems to be falling back into a side show event now. Tried to be something it wasn't too soon. Rugby has a problem with that. Super Rugby did it as well.

Simple things that work are beautiful.

 

[hdnmstsnr]

I'm actually pretty happy to see a newer club reach the top of the mountain. Heeno is a great coach and more importantly a great bloke. You and the Bond community should be proud of your achievement.

Some of the conclusions you drew from a boilerplate presentation night speech are a bit of a reach, that's all.

Every single club in the comp has "mercenaries", your starting prop in the GF didn't have a single minute for Bond prior. UQ finished in 6th with three other clubs below them, if they "fell off into an abyss" does that make 4th place Bond two steps from the abyss? Of course not.

Winning one Hospital Cup isn't a guarantee of more (ask Wests, sorry boys). Bond isn't the first club to win one or have guys that turn up to training on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

It's not a personal attack, just my opinion.

Mate, that is 720% better (approximately). I'm happy to read your reasons and respect your opinions. That is proper discourse. But is difficult to do so when you apply a blanket word to a post that was one person's observation of a specific circumstance. It wasn't an Australian Financial Review article. It was a Bond rugby fan's perspective...much like many of the posts on here - and you are totally entitled to your opinion on it.

However, by saying ' Winning one Hospital Cup isn't a guarantee of more (ask Wests, sorry boys). Bond isn't the first club to win one or have guys that turn up to training on Tuesdays and Thursdays.' tends to demonstrate you missed - or misunderstood - the footnote.

Regardless, you penned a response that was comprehensive enough for me to understand and agree to disagree on. Thank you.

 

[LevitatingSocks]

7s was on a path to stand along legitimacy for a few years there but seems to be falling back into a side show event now. Tried to be something it wasn't too soon. Rugby has a problem with that. Super Rugby did it as well.

Simple things that work are beautiful.

The pendulum is definitely swinging back toward "training tool that keeps the players fit" rather than "legitimate rugby spectacle" at least at the club level. The will to invest and pay to send players to tournaments is lower than it was two years ago.

Part of me wonders if sevens evolving to favor a different sort of athlete and playstyle from 15s has made it more disposable in the eyes of the people signing the pay cheques.

Part of me also wonders if the viewer interest was ever really there and sustainable or did they just catch lightning in a bottle for a few years.