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Thanks for the insight Belly, I was hoping there would be some mitigating factors.

I think we've been here before! Wasn't the addition of Western Force and then the Rebels to the S15 supposed to discourage players from going overseas and in fact bring back those who left due to lack of opportunities at home? I can't see the NRC having any impact on this. It only goes for a...

Yes, very enjoyable. I find it helps me sleep so last thing at night is perfect timing ;)

As per my previous post, surely someone at the NSWRU must be checking the forms submitted by the clubs for validity. How come all the "0" players weren't challenged?

I hope you're right Dave but most of the NRC will be played against the final competition rounds and playoffs of the NRL (G/F = 5/10) and AFL (G/F = 27/9) so they'll be plenty of competition during August / September. Interesting that NRL crowds only averaged about 15,000 per game last weekend.

I doubt any of them would exceed the points in 1st grade, 2nd grade or 1st grade Colts as they were all well under the cap. A couple of the 2nd grade Colts teams might be close.

Name and shame time -- here are the culprits: Norths Gordon Penrith Souths (especially!) Warringah Strange they all lost except Warringah :confused:

Hugh, I spotted this too. Some clubs seem to have worked it out and have no players with "0" points, but others haven't. How come nobody at NSWRU is checking / validating the submissions from the clubs?

Maybe play on if it's not exactly on the mark but the defending side doesn't have to retreat 10 metres??? Might be a bit hard for the crowd to know what's happening though ie some signal would be needed.

No lack of tries in the Shute Shield on the weekend under the current rules :)

I only watched the game on TV and was interested to see how Figg went as I'd not really noticed him at Norths and was surprised to see him handed the captaincy ahead of Tim Wright. I thought he had a solid game without doing anything outstanding. Baldwin was strong with the ball and in defence...

I don't think Matt MacKay is a first grader!

Norths and so is Windon although the ABC commentators kept saying he was from Wests.

Did I read somewhere that LaLa was training as a hooker with Gen Blue?

Good point Bruce. There would be no Commonwealth public servants if you had to make a profit to pay wages :D

Wicks teams are on the website now

Couldn't agree more! I thought the RugbyNews website was going to provide a cut down digital version of the programme which would have included all the teams, but looks like it will only be first grade. Some of the club websites provide all the teams eg Easts have this week and Wicks promised to...

Have a look on RugbyNews website (only first grade though). It also has reviews of most of the clubs. http://www.rugbynews.net.au/

This could get complicated! Take Nick Cummins for example: born in Port Macquarie raised in Brisbane and rep'd for Qld schoolboys moved to Sydney and played Colts and Grade at Randwick signed a 2 year deal with the Force and moved to Southern Districts He's got links all over the place :)

Here tis http://www.rugbynews.net.au/