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I fucking hope so. Local boy makes good! Honestly, it would be a huge reward for some major sacrifices made by the Abel family and would also highlight the fact that good rugby players can make it from different backgrounds. There are plenty of folks at the Brumbies who have known Robbie, AJ...

en_force_er Brumbies Guy Robbie's old man played for Waikato IIRC. Great family values and deadset driven. I would put my money on him being surrounded by some close friends at Royals and he will dig in to have a solid season. Here's a clip of him running around in the JID. Exciting times and...

Great to see Robbie Abel back in the fold in the 'berra. Robbie played Aus Schools in 2007 or 2008 from memory and has been plying his trade in NZ.

Folks don't seem happy about this elementfreak What about the Vic Country competition?

Bruwheresmycar I agree with your point that the referee can control things to an extent on the field with the players, the real key to this is associations supporting their referees and unions assisting by publicly backing their referees. As a referee you expect 50% of players and supporters are...

Hugh Palmer has been coaching overseas this season and would be a handy acquisition at Waratahs but I doubt he will be back in Australia in time for pre-season. Lee Kimball will be at Griffith in 2013 which will be positive for the club as he has had quite a few successful seasons with the...

It will be interesting to see what happens with recruitment at all the clubs. Aggies have been strong for a number of seasons now - I wonder if they can keep that level of consistency up for an extended period of time? Life on campus for CSU and Aggies seems to have changed in the last 5 or so...

Lindommer has a solid knowledge of all things rural, particularly rural geography (not to mention wine regions). I think he was always going to be pretty quick off the mark on that one LG!

I think a rookie S15 player is on roughly 70k. I can't confirm that though.

Far out jb23, I thought my rugby withdrawals were bad! My mail says there will be a number of retirements this year including coaches and players. Where is the Walsh and Blair Cup?

The Bill Castle Medal for Best & Fairest as voted by the Southern Inland Referees was a tie between Albury #8 Nathan Bright and Wagga City 5/8 Hamish Wrafter. Both these guys have had very handy seasons and fully deserve this accolade for their effort in 2012. It will be interesting to see if...

Premier Division First Grade: Aggies 26 bt Albury 25 - MOM Scott Hocking (Aggies Hooker) Second Grade: Aggies 50 bt CSU 21 - MOM Dan Higgins (Aggies 5/8) First Division First Grade: Young 30 bt Cootamundra 25 - MOM Nic Walker (Young Winger) Second Grade: Hay 43 bt Griffith 7 - MOM Ed...

Well, it’s finally arrived, Grand Final Day. We’ve been training at pre-season since January, playing footy since March, kicked off the competition on April 14 and now here we are after 277 matches over 18 weeks of the competition. The Walsh and Blair Cup is up for grabs on Saturday with Albury...

SIRU Week Two Finals Results: Premier Division First Grade: Albury 28 bt Wagga City 21 Second Grade: CSU 26 bt Waratahs 24 First Division First Grade: Coota 36 bt Tumut 24 Second Grade: Griffith 14 bt Young 12 Third Grade: Ag College 33 bt Wagga City 5 Under 17's: Griffith 22 bt...

SIRU Finals Week Two: We head to Yanco this weekend after some great footy matches in Wagga on Saturday. The forecast looks gloomy for the weekend with possible showers and a maximum of 12oC at Yanco on Saturday. The fields at Murrumbidgee College drain quite well so a bit of water won’t be a...

That's a good point you raise there jb23, it would be intersting to see what the Second Grade ladders looked like at Round 11 versus Round 16. My thoughts are that whatever happens in First Grade should happen in Second Grade.

Thanks for that one jb23, that would explain why Griffith play Young this week in the Under 17's!! My bad.........

Change in the wind? I know there are a lot of people from within SIRU that check out the forum here, have a squiz as a visitor to keep up to date with what's going on in the zone and I’m interested in getting your thoughts on this topic. I've been talking to a few people recently who have...

Finals Week One - Results Although it was not a great day for rugby today at least the rain stayed away for most of the day! I'll follow up during the week with a bit of a review of the day. PREMIER DIVISION: First Grade: Aggies 37 bt Albury 36 City 36 bt Tahs 22 Second Grade: Aggies 22 bt...

Finals Preview – Week One It’s Business Time, the 2012 Finals Series is under way and we are now officially playing for sheep stations. Notable matches will be the Aggies Albury showdown that sits at one a piece, City v Waratahs poetry recitaland the Coota v Young local derby. The majority of...