Shute Shield 2010

[observer]

TR, I'm always at Colts and don't have my pulse on goings-on at grade as you do. But well played in First Grade, Gordon.

Why isn't big Steve Cummins back playing 1's. He has played 2's the last two weeks and I thought his form at the Aussie C'ships demanded he be in 1's.

 

[RugbyReg]

Saturday 31 July 2010
SOUTHERN DISTRICTS v RANDWICK at Forshaw Rugby Park (3:10pm, ABC TV)
Southern Districts: 1. Tetera Faulkner, 2. Nick Seymour, 3. Nic Henderson; 4. Matt Trouville, 5. Kane Douglas; 6. Ita Vaea, 7. Sean Doyle, 8. Radike Samo; 9. Nathan Sievert, 10. Josh Gamgee [c]; 11. Ben Schreiber, 12. Gareth Morton, 13. Brackin Karauria-Henry, 14. Sisa Waqa; 15. Marshall Milroy.
Randwick: 1. Sekope Kepu, 2. John Fonokalafi, 3. Lotu Taukeiaho; 4. Mark Chisholm, 5. Steve Brennan; 6. Seilala Lam, 7. Tim McGann, 8. Ben Mowen; 9. Josh Valentine, 10. Brent Kelly; 11. Bevu Tuqiri, 12. Gene Fairbanks, 13. Nick Cummins, 14. Ben Greentree; 15. Danny Kroll.
Referee: Ian Smith

NORTHERN SUBURBS v SYDNEY UNIVERSITY at North Sydney Oval (3:00pm)
Northern Suburbs: 1. Lawrence Hunting, 2. Jarrad Hall, 3. Nick Lah [c]; 4. Ben Matwijow, 5. Seti Tafua; 6. AJ Gilbert, 7. Carlos Blanco, 8. Matt Lamont; 9. James Price, 10. Hadley Jackson; 11. Chris Moore, 12. Chris Burnett, 13. James Lew, 14. Cam Crawford; 15. Cameron Shepherd.
Sydney University: 1. Jerry Yanuyanutawa, 2. Nathan Charles, 3. Jeremy Tilse; 4. Dave Dennis, 5. Dave McDuling; 6. Ben McCalman, 7. Pat McCutcheon, 8. Tim Davidson [c]; 9. Nick Phipps, 10. Dan Kelly; 11. Peter Betham, 12. Tom Carter, 13. Lachie Mitchell, 14. Greg Jeloudev; 15. Nathan Trist.
Referee: Anthony Moyes

WEST HARBOUR v MANLY at Concord Oval (3:00pm)
West Harbour: 1. Campese Ma'afu, 2. Todd Pearce, 3. Rodney Blake; 4. Tom Hikila, 5. Sam Wykes; 6. Steve Mafi, 7. Sam Latunipulu, 8. Sione Tau; 9. David Fong, 10. Jai Ayoub; 11. Tito Mua, 12. Lester Salanoa, 13. Henry Seavula, 14. Macquire Tatola; 15. Dave Paurini.
Manly: 1. Eddie Aholelei, 2. Elvis Taione, 3. Tim Fairbrother; 4. Dylan Sigg, 5. Greg Peterson; 6. Will Brame [c], 7. Chris Westenenk, 8. Neil Meyer; 9. Chris Cottee, 10. Mark Swanepoel; 11. Lui Siale, 12. Tyrone Smith, 13. Luke Johnson, 14. Nemani Nadolo; 15. Adam D'Arcy.
Referee: James Leckie

WARRINGAH v PENRITH at Pittwater Rugby Park (3:00pm)
Warringah: 1. Pek Cowan, 2. Luke Holmes, 3. AJ Whalley; 4. Brent Murphy, 5. Tom Hockings; 6. Beau Robinson, 7. Michael Lipman [c], 8. Trevor Richardson; 9. Josh Holmes, 10. Hamish Angus; 11. Dylan Smouha, 12. Sam Harris, 13. Ed Doyle, 14. Joelin Rapana; 15. Pat McCabe.
Penrith: 1. Dave Coventry, 2. Elvis Levi, 3. Toa Asa; 4. Johnny Smith, 5. Richard Aho; 6. Chris Aho, 7. Winnie Paulo, 8. Vili Napa'a; 9. Sikuti Vunipola, 10. Ray Alo; 11. Luke Cross [c], 12. Henry Lilomaiava, 13. Stan Tuionuku, 14. Dave Alo; 15. Tawhiri Walsh.
Referee: Angus Gardner

EASTERN SUBURBS v PARRAMATTA at Woollahra Oval (3:00pm)
Eastern Suburbs: 1. Daniel Roach, 2. Huia Edmonds, 3. Guy Shepherdson; 4. Matt McGann, 5. Ed Brenac; 6. Talalelei Gray, 7. Will Brock, 8. Andrew Shaw; 9. Brendan McKibbin, 10. Matt To'omua; 11. Damon Anderson, 12. Ben Ward, 13. Ryan Cross, 14. Anton Lavin; 15. Pat Dellit.
Parramatta: 1.Richard Just, 2. Rossano Fagnani, 3. Lui Sakaria; 4. Ryan Aniseko, 5. Josh Kron; 6. Sam Evalu, 7. Andrew Cox [c], 8. Maile Latekefu; 9. Lua Vailoaloa, 10. Pierre Hola; 11. Brendan Lane, 12. John Fonua, 13. Tom Woods, 14. Iliasa Toroca; 15. Moses Tavola.
Referee: Callan O'Neill


Sunday 1 August 2010
EASTWOOD v GORDON at T.G. Millner Field (3:00pm)
Eastwood: 1. Simon Norris, 2. Damien Fitzpatrick, 3. Keiran Longbottom; 4. Tom Alexander, 5. Mitch Lees; 6. Gareth Palamo, 7. Hugh Perrett [c], 8. Locky McCaffrey; 9. James Stannard, 10. Jimmy Hilgendorf; 11. Lachie Turner, 12. Sione Piukala, 13. Tim Bennetts, 14. John Grant; 15. Ben Batger.
Gordon: 1. Marty Plokstys, 2. Ben Whittaker, 3. Tobius Gukibau; 4. Jared Barry, 5. Mark Johnson; 6. Paulie Tuala, 7. Chris Alcock, 8. Jason Peseta; 9. Terry Preston, 10. Josh Keil; 11. Sai Vakaru, 12. Luke Duncan, 13. Dion Berryman, 14. Matt McDougall; 15. Dave Harvey [c].
Referee: Andrew Lees

Is that Blocker Jnr playing loosehead for Easts? Has he played any first grade this year?

 

[Des]

Anybody know what has happened to Huxley - Trist playing Fullback for Uni ??

 

[observer]

Is that Blocker Jnr playing loosehead for Easts? Has he played any first grade this year?

That's him. I think it is his debut. He has been around the world for sixpence since he appeared for the Aussie schools a few years ago. He quit union in 2007 and joined the Cronulla Sharks. Since then he has had stints in Ulster, France and the Pirates 2's. He needs to settle down.

 

[topo]

Is that Blocker Jnr playing loosehead for Easts? Has he played any first grade this year?

That is indeed Blocker jnr playing LH for Easts. He has been in 2nd grade but has had a few runs in 1s off the bench. Ofa has been the main starting LHP.

 

[topo]

Anybody know what has happened to Huxley - Trist playing Fullback for Uni ??

Hux has a bit of a groin strain so not playing this week. Trist is back to his best after recovering from an ACL reconstruction in the off season so gets to resume his favourite position, at least for this week.

 

[khashiz]

Tim McGann Starting for Randwick vs Souths INTERESTING??????

 

[Lindommer]

That's him. I think it is his debut. He has been around the world for sixpence since he appeared for the Aussie schools a few years ago. He quit union in 2007 and joined the Cronulla Sharks. Since then he has had stints in Ulster, France and the Pirates 2s. He needs to settle down.

Tis him. Young Blocker looked to have a promising future in rugby after making Oz Schoolboys in 2006. The Tahs gave him a run in a junior preseason game in 07 but he looked all at sea. He registered for Northern Suburbs that year before turning to the dark side at Cronulla. The brutalities of under 20 qualification saw him cut from their Toyota Cup side the next year and he returned to rugby. Blocker Senior and Matt Williams are good mates, so off to Ulster for young Blocker, in their senior squad! Once again he wasn't good enough and turned up for the Pirates in 2009 where he could only crack Seconds. For the 2009/10 NH season he had a run for Monteux in the French Division III. This year he's at Eastern Suburbs (will he be/is he Compass III?) and I must confess the few times I've seen him run on late in the game in Ones he's looked quite good.

The moral of this tale: props take a long time to come good and, yes, he needs to settle down. Preferably back with his junior clubmates at West Harbour. If you're any good we'll get you a Wobbly jumper, BJ.

 

[Goldenone]

I notice Mark Swanapoel is playing 5/8 for Manly ! A former Oz Schoolboys #9,Swannie unfortunately suffered a bad knee injury off-season in 2007 which ruined his chances of back-to-back selections for the Schoolds team.A very powerfully built half-back,I am not sure if 5/8 is his possie though.Good luck to him.
A question please.Living in Qld., I enjoyed watching the Sydney club rugby ( being an old Sydney boy) on ABC HD,howevr,since the advent of their new all News Channel,the rugby is no longer !! Have they punted it ( pun intended) somewhere else ??
Go The 'wicks !!!

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

I notice Mark Swanapoel is playing 5/8 for Manly ! A former Oz Schoolboys #9,Swannie unfortunately suffered a bad knee injury off-season in 2007 which ruined his chances of back-to-back selections for the Schoolds team.A very powerfully built half-back,I am not sure if 5/8 is his possie though.Good luck to him.
A question please.Living in Qld., I enjoyed watching the Sydney club rugby ( being an old Sydney boy) on ABC HD,howevr,since the advent of their new all News Channel,the rugby is no longer !! Have they punted it ( pun intended) somewhere else ??
Go The 'wicks !!!

Yeah I was annoyed about that over here in the West too. I now have to resort going the iView option on my Internets.

 

[wamberal]

I notice Mark Swanapoel is playing 5/8 for Manly ! A former Oz Schoolboys #9,Swannie unfortunately suffered a bad knee injury off-season in 2007 which ruined his chances of back-to-back selections for the Schoolds team.A very powerfully built half-back,I am not sure if 5/8 is his possie though.Good luck to him.
A question please.Living in Qld., I enjoyed watching the Sydney club rugby ( being an old Sydney boy) on ABC HD,howevr,since the advent of their new all News Channel,the rugby is no longer !! Have they punted it ( pun intended) somewhere else ??
Go The 'wicks !!!

The Shute Shield is only shown in NSW and ACT now. We were really enjoying the games when they were shown on ABC HD. I wonder why the ARU do not talk to the ABC about showing it on ABC 2? Or on Fox. Or any bloody where, really.

 

[Goldenone]

The Shute Shield is only shown in NSW and ACT now. We were really enjoying the games when they were shown on ABC HD. I wonder why the ARU do not talk to the ABC about showing it on ABC 2? Or on Fox. Or any bloody where, really.

Thanks for that.It really is a pity as now that the S14 season is over and the rep players filter back to the Grade sides there is some great rugby to be watched.Another thing,do they still televise the Joeys - Riverview match ??

 

[observer]

Last weeks ABC match East v Woodies was the best quality game I have in the last few years. It was great footy to watch.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Agreed, Observer. It was absolute quality. I couldn't believe the finish to the game as well.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Last weeks ABC match East v Woodies was the best quality game I have in the last few years. It was great footy to watch.

Missed the Beasts vs Woodies match last week - bugger.

There have been some top games from the Shute Shield this year.
The recent Uni vs the Wicks game was a humdinger.

If the weather holds, the Wicks vs the Hobbits should be a good'un as well.

A fitting curtain raiser for a hoped for Gold Rush in Melbourne later tomorrow night.

I stumbled upon the NZ NPC championship game Canterbury vs Hawkes Bay earlier tonight on Fox sports. It was not a bad game, but I reckon the better Sydney clubs would hold their own against them.

 

[Hartman]

Fantastic win by the Pirates Colts IIIs, inflicted Gordon's first defeat of the season. Pirates Colts Is too good for Gordon, although Gordon did score an excellent length-of-the-field try at the death and then knocked over the conversion from the sideline to earn a bonus point.

TR, I'm always at Colts and don't have my pulse on goings-on at grade as you do. But well played in First Grade, Gordon.

Devastated I couldn't have been there for the 3rds game...

 

[Des]

Anybody know where I can have a small wager or two on the Shute Shield games. Could get on with Centrebet last year but can't find anywhere for this year. I do think that the Hobbits are specials today.

 

[TheRiddler]

https://www.sportsbet.com.au/sports/summary/SportID/6/CompetitionPID/20766/RoundPID/364

Hobbits paying $3.55 to the Wicks $1.28

Gordon's $7.00 to the Woods $1.09 makes me cry.

 

[wamberal]

https://www.sportsbet.com.au/sports/summary/SportID/6/CompetitionPID/20766/RoundPID/364

Hobbits paying $3.55 to the Wicks $1.28

Gordon's $7.00 to the Woods $1.09 makes me cry.

Value bet.

 

[TheRiddler]

Well if you took the Hobbits, you would have made some very tidy money. Not as much as you well get by taking the Highlanders tomorrow of course