2018 Shute Shield Season Review: Warringah Rats
The performance in the Shute Shield grand final against Sydney Uni left a sour taste but 2018 head coach Darren Coleman loved the rollercoaster ride that the season was.
There was the early high of a national club championship win over Uni of Queensland pre-season but at times the machine that rolled through much of 2017 spluttered.
The Rats were undefeated at home but at different times had to grab victory from the looming jaws of defeat.
They are still one of the best supported and most community conscious clubs on the Sydney club scene.
Coleman, who is off to coach Gordon in 2019, believes that Warringah will again be a force in the coming season.
Here’s what the Rats 2018 head coach had to say:
With hindsight, how do you look back on the season?
Obviously 2017 was going to be tough to top, but 2018 was a great season none the less. It was always going to hard to back up, we were no longer under radar so to make the Grand Final was a great effort. Warringah is