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2-3 years ago there was no competition bye full stop. It’s good they bought that back becuase early rain in the year can be a huge headache for rescheduling cancelled games

Yeah that makes sense - I still think premier grade gets played. Wests had a water logged fixture with bond 2 or 3 years ago where they cancelled the grades but premier proceeded.

wests rugby also precious about fields but I suspect colts 1 & premier will get played a very beneficial strategy if they go that way because it generally means Gold Coast has to travel mid week for a makeup game - works against you if the fixture @ GC and it gets rescheduled.

he was aligned to Tahs late last year - after rebels demised. supposedly he never showed up to preseason… unsure the back story there

I wouldn’t throw significant money at any half back… as reg would say #EightyforTaty - there’s so many good young prospects running around club rugby you just need look for the ones who play multiple positions (Werchon, Kalani etc) the one pure half back to keep an eye on is James martens over...

and I saw Angelo smith had a run in reserve grade handy pickup when someone couldn’t be bothered joining the Tahs and finds himself back in Brisbane playing club rugby - wonder what happened there?

Nope - Berrick definitely had a long stint with concussion issues. It was when he was with the Tahs

Haven’t seen anything- but was thinking back to Berrick Barnes concussion issues and how he was on the brink of retirement. Think he spent something like 6-12 months living inside a hyper chamber thingy and came back and didn’t seem to have the issue anymore

I thought former coach TD started a lot of colts players in premier grade at the expense of Souths reserve grade team (which was littered with premier grade talent playing down a grade) It was just an observation unsure if it was fact.

I think it’s important to have a good premier grade squad. souths has that… they didn’t have it under the previous head coach because players were specifically asking to play reserve grade because the previous coach was using premier grade as a “blooding/baptism of fire” team. I’ve said it...

I really hope Souths shuts up its critics. There’s still a nice nucleus of talent in that premier grade team to be a factor at end of year (king, Bryant, reubens etc) Out of all the compass teams - Souths is the one with the most success. If they are entering their battlers era it will be...

another benefit of having a Good Friday night program is - once these retired has been round their cardio requirements into shape at the midway point some of them get the itch to backup on Saturdays and you’ll sometime see a random former premier player turning up for a 9am game im sure souths...

Souths has a pretty good Friday night rugby team seen some household names in it. CFS, Timu etc. some boys just want to avoid training, pay their subs(or skirt the admin person) and have a Friday night hit out before they carpe diem weekend. Saturday rugby is a bigger commitment. Tuesday and...

lame - as crappy as the rebels were run. I always enjoyed their injury update video we got from the team physio. Would discuss the injury, how they are treating rehab and then timeline for when they are due back

& 6 months from then “how did we let Blyth leave”

I can’t speak for other clubs but Wests has been a good stepping stone for players coming from Fiji/NZ to greener grass in pro rugby landscape. I wonder how QPR as a stepping stone compares to Shute shield though? Qpr 9 teams - squads are more stacked Shute shield - 13 teams, more player...

I don’t know about saying INS: (Retained) Never feels like a IN when a player is returning.

Just googled David Fusitua and one of the first articles that was listed was “Fusitua looks to start RU career in Japan” I guess brothers is pathway to Japan/France…. Just via Crosby Road

looks like Reds A beat wests 48-47 anyone watch the hit out? would love to know the names to keep an eye on this year

interesting… no Ethan Dobbins there Would of thought wiggin would of been next in line to be the mainstay