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^^^ I must give credit where due. The list of previous Ken Catchpole medal winners was provided last year by @isp resp loquiturin a post on the Shute Shield - 2014 thread. I just copied and pasted from their post and updated it for 2015. Simple.

^^^ The mid 70's was all mullets, skin tight pastel body shirts with Donny Osmond collars, long stubbies, flares and platform shoes, John Denver, Disco and The Carpenters. Everyone alive now who lived through that must surely be forgiven for their sins of that period.

^^^^ It looks all Sydney University to me. Can you bring yourself to do it @2bluesfan?

Seems it is according to this from the Rebels 2016 thread.

When Beau Robinson was "seconded" to the Bay of Plenty Steamers ITM Cup team whilst still contracted to the Reds (Pre NRC) a year or three back, I believe that there was an arrangement which saw the NZ team pay the equivalent of his Reds wages to the Reds for his services. I think that means...

I thought he missed out because there is a cap on the number of Super Rugby Players allowable in a NRC Franchise, and given the numbers in Brumbieland who were around for NRC, someone had to miss out. Sending Tom to ITM Cup when you can't use him for the local NRC Franchise may be really good...

And they call the School Sporting Scholarship thread the Hotel California thread? After 300+ pages and 6000+ posts, with some of the usual suspects chalking up well over 100 posts, has anyone changed their minds on the makeuo of the 31 for RWC 15. Seems the same old arguments and...

Not a bad decision making methodology and one that is not without precedent. We used to run this state/colony on rum, although now it seems that $3000 bottles of Grange can do big things for a Premier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion

^^^ It is "Peoples Choice" as voted by the other coaches. No idea what the process or criteria used is. This from the NSW RU Web site: "The Dave Brockhoff Medal for Coach of the Year, as voted by Intrust Super Shute Shield coaches, was awarded to Simon Cron from Northern Suburbs, whose...

Is this the First Cab off the rank for 2016? https://www.facebook.com/southerndistricts.rugbyunion.colts/photos/a.627387890631082.1073741825.116150098421533/911035288933006/?type=1&theater

Sydney Colts Season 2015 is all over bar the shouting. Time to start the Season 2016 wang. Any movements in the Coaching ranks? What Clubs are the 2015 Year 12 graduates going to? A few Private School players have already signalled their intent by moonlighting with Colts during School...

I reckon the NZ team have to be careful with making too many changes for this game as a knee jerk reaction. They have usually backed themselves to play their way back into form, and now is a good time for steady as she goes. Can lightning strike twice?

St Andrews had a brief stay in Division I, and have returned to Division II. Chevalier have dropped to Division II a fair while ago. St Pius must be on the brink of moving to Division II, and the St Gregory's programme may benefit from some time and confidence building victories in Division II...

^^^ The residents of Chez Jarse also barrack for The Gimblett Gravellers (Hawkes Bay), on the basis of the quality Food and Beverage options available locally.

^^^ New brewery opened in Napier? Do we need him? There are plenty of good young wingers running around in Shute Shield that would be very close to being ready to step up to the Tahs, or are already there and should get some more run on time. Harry Jones, Alex Northam, Andrew Kellaway to...

Be careful of anointing 14 year olds as future Wallabies, Australian Schoolboys or even extrapolating that selection into the State Junior Club team will guarantee School Association Selection at Open (U18) level. For all sorts of reasons, and contrary to the beliefs, hopes and wishes of the...

48 mug shots. Looks like there are three coaches/assistant coaches, and a doctor leaving 44-ish "players". Some of them must be "development" players - the Colts players, the players from Uni 2nd Grade and some of the Balmain boys, and they are unlikely to see much game or bench time unless...

Isn't it a mindset thing? We need to get Australian Rugby people believing that the NRC is on a par with the ITM cup, not lower. I can understand that the Ponies wanted to send him to ITM cup for further development purposes, but they may also have tried to do that so that the Vikings would...

^^^ But a team very similar to that was not able to beat the Hobbits or the MMM in the Shute Shield Finals. @Kiap, There were only 14 images on my Getty images "find". I didn't bother checking the Zimbio page that also popped up from my original Googling. Following that link, Wikipedia seems...

2015 SRU Awards Details 2015 Catchpole Medal for Player of the Year: David HORWITZ (Randwick) Finallists: · David HORWITZ (Randwick) 22 votes · Hamish ANGUS (Warringah) 21 votes · Will MILLER (Northern Suburbs) 21 votes . David HICKEY (Sydney University) 18 votes · Terry PRESTON (Gordon) 18...