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Hmmmm........'moralising', 'jealousy and resentment'.....seems like a nerve's been touched, and the apologist/s for the 'super clubs' aren't happy. I've already said many times in this forum that the SRU needs to do much more to control the rampant recruitment by Uni and Randwick, and my...

I don't remember saying anything about Souths knocking people back if they wanted to play with us!?! In fact we'll take pretty much anyone, as long as they want to play rugby and are happy to be in a grade that's determined by their commitment and ability, not by the promises of cashed up...

Now that the sand hills of my childhood have all but disappeared, I have to do something!! But seriously..... by my count we have 4 players across the entire playing squad (approx 70-75 players) who played for another Shute Shield club last year. We've also picked up some league players along...

Wouldn't we all?? Just looking at the Souths team lists for his weekend, and I can see that 12 of the starting 15 in 1sts Colts are locals* (with a combined total of 23 Player Points between them) while 2nds Colts have 14 locals in the starting 15 (for a grand total of 16 PP). And yes...

Yes - after a couple of disappointing losses in 3rds & 2nds earlier in the day, it was good to see our 1sts Colts continuing their recent run of good form with an entertaining 4 tries to 1 victory over the previously 2nd placed Rats. Once again, the Souths pack were good in the set pieces...

I might be a bit biased (well....make that a lot) but the Souths performance was impressive in every facet of the game. The set pieces were impressive with a couple of scrum penalties highlighting their dominance in that area, and they won all but a couple of their own line outs. Last week...

Maybe.....but I can't help wondering what prompted him to return to training at Souths? And whether anyone at Norths knew about it. Of course, he'd been training with Souths Colts before Christmas, because he'd apparently been unhappy at Randwick, but then in the New Year he chose to go to...

I'm curious about Noonan's selection at halfback, considering he was training with the Souths Grade teams down at Forshaw on Thursday last week! He didn't make an appearance at the Sths v Nths trials on the weekend, but now I'm wondering which team he'd have played for if he had shown up!

That's mostly good news, I guess, because some of the proposals being put forward were appalling and aimed at favouring one or two clubs above all else. Unfortunately, though, I can't help feeling that the NSWRU have let a fantastic opportunity to introduce some much-needed reform to the points...

The notion that front rows not be included in a revised points system was stupid in the extreme, as well as transparently self-serving. One of the clubs proposing it tried to bring on a front-row sub in a game last year which would've put them over the team points limit. They'd have known well...

8 reserves are allowed - I'm not sure that any club has the capacity to have 8 'fresh' reserves on the bench. Most reserves will have played the previous game.

It's disappointing alright! The clubs were asked for submissions regarding possible changes to the existing points system, and some of the more sensible of those proposed reducing the totals points allowed for Colts 1 & 2, while leaving it so that reserves were counted in the total. Someone even...

You're quite right RB! As I understand it, 1sts Colts will be allowed to have a maximum of 40 points on the field at any one time, and 2nds will have 35 (both the same as last season). The difference from last season is that when a player being replaced leaves the field, his points come off the...

Sorry to seem like a pedant SLV, but we've been told that the total player points will be the same as last year (i.e. 40 for 1st Colts & 35 for 2nd Colts) - apparently the significant change this year is that the 40 & 35 points will only include the 15 players on the field and won't include the...

He was named in the the wider Gen Blues training squad this year, but wasn't last season

He was a 1-point player in the 2nd Grade Colts semi-final against Souths last year

It's hard to see how it'll ease the player points pressure at Randwick when he was a 1 pointer last season

Looked like he was committing to Souths, and attended some of the early sessions before Christmas, but then while he was off at Gen Blue training early in the New Year he apparently made the decision to go to Norths - he may have been concerned about the competition for spots at Souths!

Can't argue with that, Silverado - as evidenced by the fact that the Waratahs web-site still has the information for last year's U/20s tournament......

I don't know about that, LG - Piroddi was pretty good at the collision stuff too and that was before coming back 'at a different physical level' - I guess we'll just have to wait and see, though.