After dropping a game early last season, Nudgee went on a run and won the remainder of their matches to claim the school's first outright premiership since 2018.

Five players from last year's squad return for another crack this year in a competition coach Andrew Scotney expects to be ever tighter than 2023.

Overview with Andrew Scotney: 

"We’re looking forward to getting in to the season. We got through our trials in term two and we’re on our rugby camp at the moment, then we play one last trial on Saturday ahead of round one,” Scotney told Rugby News earlier in the week. 

“We had a five-day camp this year and we started by camping out for a night on a property near Boonah.