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I understand they lost 4 points in every grade and every colts team for having received too many red / yellow cards over the course of the season. I don't know when this rule was introduced but it seems very harsh.

But then the game went professional and players could (legally) be paid, which meant that the clubs with the best resources could attract the best players ie those with a chance of picking up a Super contract or a contract overseas. Unfortunately at grass roots level only a few clubs seem to...

We shouldn't turn this into an anti Uni discussion. For a team that was struggling some years ago they've done a great job of exploiting the resources available to them to build strength right through the grades and colts and have obviously provided a lot of players to the S15 competition...

Lindommer, you've hit the nail on the head. The risks associated with telling Uni players (for example) that they have to go and play somewhere else are not the issue. The issue is to stop the better resourced clubs from poaching players from the likes of Penrith etc. My club (Randwick) has been...

And the reason why nothing ever changes and we keep moaning about the talent all being concentrated in a few clubs is that there are always knockers who quickly find reasons for doing nothing!

Good idea Arch! Why don't we go a step further and introduce a draft like the AFL so that the clubs finishing at the bottom of the table have first choice of the players that clubs like Uni have to let go.

You're taking the word "manipulation" out of context. I'm not implying that anyone is doing anything untoward. My concern is that the teams in the bottom 6 have an unfair advantage over the teams who have performed well across grades and colts and then find themselves having to play their...

My points were: (1) I'd prefer to see a full home and away season (2) there are too many teams in the playoffs (3) the playoffs should be contested by the teams who have performed best against the other teams over the season Whilst I completely agree with the concern that the Shute Shield has...

Surely we have to make whatever concessions are necessary to get back to two full rounds of home and away, even if that means just having 4 teams in the playoffs to reduce the length of the season. After all how many times has a team finishing lower than 4th won the grand final? I remember...

Interestingly Parra's resurgence is occurring in a season when we have this bizarre method of determining the way the comp will be split for the second round. Even if Parra remain in the top 6 in 1st grade they will almost certainly be relegated to the bottom 6 for the second round as it's based...

Randwick's financial problems (both football club and licenced club) have been rumoured for some time. Weight was added by a comment on the website a few weeks ago that the club was trying to act "financially responsibly". The reality is they have +30 players unavailable due to injury and I...

Daniel Fleming, who I believe played Colts last year, came on in the second half last week and was really impressive. He created good attacking opportunities and showed he had the ability to put players into gaps and Randwick were back in the game for a while after Southern skipped away to a...

A couple of years ago Randwick played Norths at North Sydney Oval. Norths were all over Randwick in the first half and built up a big lead by half time, but then Randwick ran them down in the second half and won. When the ABC showed the highlights of the game the next week they reversed the...

Round 15 is a split round to allow for postponements due to wet weather etc.

There is a story on the Rugby News website that he is going back to RSA to play in the Currie Cup at the end of the Super15 season. If the Waratahs don't make the playoffs then their season would end on 15/7 and the Currie Cup starts on 11/8 so maybe available for a few games. If the Waratahs...

Rugby is first and foremost a players' game, especially at the lower levels. If we lose sight of this fact the game will morph into yet another souless professional business.

Is that league or union?