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1 day comp at Brothers tomorrow with competition for Men and Schools. Great to see Brothers supporting 7s Rugby. Brisbane Fiji, Iconz, Newstar and Sunnybank are the top seeds.

Emmanuel International 7s over the weekend saw the Australian team earn a hard fought victory of Sunnybank 19 - 5. Sunnybank put up a great fight in the 20 minute final and actually were first to score. There was some great defensive saves and a bit of aggression at the breakdown. Iconz were...

Who cares about 15s. You play all year to win - Nothing! 7s Season starts tomorrow. Competition, variety, speed, excitement, prize money, overseas travel, playing national teams.

The IRFU are trying to enforce this too. In a perfect world it would be great. The real issue is the ARU themselves. Most club payments/benefits go to help prop uo academy players who are expected to train full time for $5k. Some of the guys are forced to relocate from regional areas or minor...

You need to look at the ARU strategy already released - Junior Gold Cup. It is a user pay system because the ARU has no money. Each centre contributes $24k and each player $660 which adds up to almost $3M. A national club competition will follow the same strategy with participants paying an...

Sunnybank will play Redlands in the Qld Women's GF. Redlands will be decimated when the Australia 7s girls relocate to NSW next year so they will be keen as.

Breakers scored in Golden Point to go through. Amazing as Brothers had been the best team all year. Credit to Breakers on 3 GFs in 3 years. Great to see Brothers finally have a decet Colts year.

I am sick and tired of having Sunnybank and Uni bagged on this forum for their financial success. I wonder if Redcliffe suffer the same issue in the Q Cup. I suppose GPS will be the next club to ridicule if they achieve their potential and win this year. If they do it will be down to some great...

I think the fair appraisal is for forum embers to click on Chirpin's profile and read his previous 17 posts. Seems like it is the same pot you are always stirring. Nice try at saving credibility.

Watched the Sunnybank v Redlands women's game. Was one of the better games of Rugby I have seen all year. The ref was a little out if his depth. The defence was excellent with some great charges by the Redlands #13 that required quality front on defence to negate. Sunnybank won 10 - 7 to remain...

Tom didn't expect to play Premier so he is off to Europe for 3 weeks (booked early in the year). He will feature in years to come, most likely initially in the 7s. Dion Taumata and Jake McIntyre will both be back in the next 2 weeks so the Bank should be well covered. It will be good to catch up...

Stallion, you do realise it was a GPS coaching team. Thompson played his Rugby at GPS starting in Colts in 1983 and Hedger coached the Colts to a Premiership in the early noughties. Our results aren't good but we have had some good coaches (including these guys) who have been made to look...

The attitude to reporting McIntyre is interesting. I hope it is a bias against Sunnybank and not him because if Qld don't sign him they will look like fools. Jake White is in contact with him weekly and the kid is without doubt the best prospect at 10 since Lynagh. Athletically gifted, the...

Rassie, you are welcome to your opinion on 7s tactics and all forms of Rugby can be played with varying emphases for differing results, however I would question your claim that there are no rucks in 7s or that Liam Gill is useless in 7s. Rucks not only exist but their quantity is extremely...

I wonder who the Tighthead for Brothers 2nd Grade is? Might be in for a bit of a surprise at 12:10pm on Saturday as he will be opposing one Rodzilla Blake.

There were 30 penalties in the Wests - Brothers game (16 - 14). The refs had their last training night on scrum with guest presenters talking to them. I believe zero tolerance for early engagement and failure to bind were prominent as well as dominant scrubs remaining legal with no driving in or...

Some strong mail from Bottomley that Nick Stiles has the job sewn up.

This raises an interesting issue. At one level you have community club running 8+ teams affiliated to their geographical unions. At another level you have an elite (hesitate to say 3rd Tier) team/club that has to engage and work with all 5 franchises, the ARU 7s, overseas professional players...

It will be a very open Premier Rugby competition this year. There are a number of factors that will influence this including the completion finishing 3 weeks earlier which will limit the involvement of Super XV players. Additionally the U20 schedule this year precludes players from being...