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Good to see Mooney back at Wests, I hope he can turn them around. I'm still one who fees that he hasn't bee given enough credit for laying the foundation for the current Reds success. On another note, what happened to all the Club guys who got a trial chance with the Super sides post S15...

I have had a personal interest in this comp in the past and the only Merit team that I can dredge up from the internet is the 2006 one and interestingly four backs have gone on to play S14, and two forwards have featured somewhere in S15 calculations. Not a huge strike rate, I wonder how the...

Congratulations to the 2011 Premiers Sunnybank! They came home with a very wet sail and were the form team of the comp for the back end. The Grand Final was their 7th win on the trot. A very good team on paper who were able to produce on the field as well. Got to Ballymore with the score 10-0...

Just back from the game. Quite disappointing actually. Uni looked to be out of sorts, and after a reasonably close first 20 minutes Sunnybank went into overdrive and never looked back. It was a bloody hot day and maybe that had something to do with it. Sunnybank forwards dominated both the set...

Too many post-game posts on here to read through thoroughly but I can pick up the gist...like many I'm a little surprised and very disappointed at the result. The thing that annoyed me the most was the lack of respect for ball retention..seriously what is it with the constant kicking away of...

There's a number of us who have been saying for a while that Sunnybank were the dark horse, particularly with their rep players coming back. I think it will be a cracker of a game this afternoon with the winner the favourite to win next week.

Line ups for this weekends knock out prelim final: University 1. Kevin Davies 24. Mitchell Wade 3. David Howard 4. Jordan Chapman 5. Timothy Buchanan 6. David McDuling 7. Villi Fainga'a 8. Matthew Arvier 9. William Thompson 10. Ian Prior 11. Tevita Kuridrani 12. Herman Porter...

Amazing how you lose a winger and your biggest dilemma is who is going to defend at 10? If it's the same starting 15, with JOC (James O'Connor) or Mitchell in for Digby, you could just get everyone to move in one, push AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) into 13 and have QC (Quade Cooper) on the wing. Quite annoying though that this shuffle has to be...

The Under 20 competion has two world competitions annually. One for the first tier and another for the next 16 countries which is played a week or two before. The winner of the second tier gets promoted to the main comp in the following year, at the expense of the last placed in the top comp...

So could Afusipa Taumopeau take the vacant outside back spot, if as Foley says there is one?

Been hearing this kids name a bit recently Jets. He has been getting good wraps all year and as you say, is doing very well to be standing out in the quality Uni backline. I have heard that he was in the Aus U19 team that played England some weeks back and was one of the better performers that...

A contributing factor to this newly discovered competitiveness of the non- Tier 1 nations, must be the number of their players who ply their trade in the various competitions in the Northern Hemisphere and Japan. A better standard of competition and a professional training regime would be big...

Nostradamus is alive and well! Very good pick LL. I hear Murphy controlled things well, just as you predicted. What result is in the crystall ball for this weekend?

Did NZ have a team in this? Actually be interesting to know which countries were represented.

Not a vote, just a comment. There are some great individual players from the less fancied countries aren't there. Couple of the expat kiwi's in the Japanese side had enormous games, the Romanian No.2 looked very handy, as did the Namibian captain and the fullback. The Argy skipper is a very...

I wasn't at Ballymore yesterday but heard that the Brothers v. Uni game was a cracker with a very physical forwards battle. Apparently the game went down to the wire with both teams having a chance to put the game away at the end, until a barnstorming run from Shipperley sealed the game for...

Boilover!! Brothers over Uni 30-23.

GPS 1. Jean-Pierre Smith 2. Liam Ferguson 3. Ruan Smith 4. Mitchell Carpenter 5. Daniel Gorman 6. Jonathan Ellis 7. Mogi Wei 8. Gavin Murphy 9. Curtis Franks 10. Patrick Smith 11. Todd Winkley 12. James Herbert 13. Namila Davui 14. Byron Roberts 15. Joshua Logan Joshua...

Righto, no more talk about Easts for 2011, season is over. Be good to get a bit of a run down of each of the sides competing in the Finals series from some of their supporters. I know most of us see a Uni v Bank Grand Final as almost inevitable but that conclusion is pretty easy to arrive...