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Eastwood - 2002 & 2003 (including 2 Premierships, MOM in 2002 GFinal & SMH Club Rugby Player of the Year) Manly - 2004 & 2005 (including 2005 R'Up in Ken Catchpole Medal) Western Force for the inaugural season in 2006. Eastern Suburbs - 2009 - 2011 (didn't get to play too often as the...

Global Rapid Rugby confident despite coronavirus curveball RNZ - 15 Feb 2012 Rapid Rugby CEO Mark Evans is positive games will go ahead, with alternative plans expected to be announced this week. "Everyone knows these are extraordinary and unusual circumstances. This doesn't happen every day...

Community Colours 2020 Club Alignments: Arks – Byron Ralston and Angus Wagner Associates – Ian Prior Coastal Cavaliers – Kieran Longbottom and Jacob Abel Cottesloe – Marcel Brache, Ben Grant and Nick Jooste Curtin University – Andrew Ready and Henry Taefu. Joondalup Brothers – Victor Harris and...

Fijian Latui working on fitness ahead of Global Rapid Rugby competition

Will be interesting to see how the Coronavirus impacts GRR - especially with season kickoff in a month (13 March). Would imagine that China Lions will be playing all of their home games outside of mainland China/Shanghai this year. SC Tigers (Hong Kong) may get interesting if outbreaks...

Plenty of ammunition named in Fijian Latui squad A talented blend of youth and experience has been named in the 33 man Fijian Latui squad to contest the inaugural Global Rapid Rugby competition commencing on March 14 in Suva. Forwards: Joeli Veitayaki – Naitasiri Timoci Sauvoli – Nadroga...

Good to see the outreach and support from Hodgo's old Sydney club connection. A good double header. Western Force captain Ian Prior expressed his excitement to support the RugbyWA Women and the future of women in rugby. “It’s fantastic, between RugbyWA and the Force, we are one club and...

Rugby Union: Force clash first step as Newcastle aim for a return to the big time James Gardiner - 10 Feb 2020 - The Maitland Mercury NEWCASTLE coach Scott Coleman hopes the clash against the Western Force at No.2 Sportsground next month is the first step towards a return to the Sydney Shute...

Forrest's rugby comp wants to keep China AAP - 3 February 2020 Global Rapid Rugby organisers are hoping the newly-announced China-based team can be retained for the inaugural season despite the outbreak of the coronavirus. Mark Evans, chief executive of GRR, is hopeful that the China Lions...

Rest assured that Plan B was/is already in place to cover the possibility of more unrest btwn China and Hong Kong. GRR is building the case for this concept rather than feeding existing support. There could be games in Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand or even Japan (which is right behind...

The real excitement comes in how it develops in 2021 and beyond. I'm ready to be surprised......... It's interesting that many pundits said the same thing about Andrew Forrest when he kicked off Fortescue Metals Group. FMG is now the 3rd largest Iron Ore producer in Australia. Andrew Forrest...

It was never going to be with only a 6 team proof-of-concept season. If you recall Forrest was expecting to sink about $150M over the first 3 seasons. 2020 is year 1 for GRR. 2019 was the Showcase Series during the buildup to the RWC in Japan. 2018 was the interim WSR to work around approval...

Still 6 weeks until the first game of 2020.

Looks like Team Asia is the Shanghai Lions. https://www.rugbyasia247.com/are-shanghai-lions-the-grr-team-asia/

I reckon streaming of all games. (As seems to be getting too late for anything else to work).

Very pleasing to see.....go well WA - based lads. Six Western Force and RugbyWA Senior Academy players have been called up for the Junior Wallabies camp taking place at the Australian Institute of Sports. Byron Ralston, Grason Makara, Jackson Pugh, Ollie Callan, Reece Anapu and Alex...

Great to have the lads back on the training track after the EOY break. Looking very clipped Ian Prior.

Thank you Minderoo/Andrew Forest for maintaining a professional rugby union team in WA during 2019. We saw games against: World XV (coached by Robbie Deans) South China Tigers x 2 Asia Pacific Dragons x 2 Sanix Blues Japan A Wolfpack Fijian Latua x 2 Kagifa Samoa x 2 Malaysia Valke Ikale Tahi...

Does this mean that all of this wasn't already in place???????

Western Force hand three young local players first full-time professional contracts ahead of next - year’s $1million Global Rapid Rugby competition Nick Taylor - West Australian - 19 Dec 2019 Western Force have handed three young local players their first full-time professional contracts...