Just a year after winning a first grade premiership, Sydney Uni lost five of their last seven matches in 2023 to miss the playoffs for the first time since 2017.

Despite that, returning coach Todd Louden, who was last at the club in 2013, seems confident his young, talented squad can push up the ladder this season.

Overview with Todd Louden: 

"We’ve been working really hard to develop from within, so we’ve got a young team and they’re doing well," Louden told Rugby News.

“We reviewed the game model we had played for the last several years and have renewed our approach and game style. The model had been in place for probably five or six years, and I think it had run its course a little.