Around the Traps: 2024 Shute Shield coaching picture starting to take shape
This article originally appeared in last weekend's Rugby News finals program
We’ve hit finals time of the Shute Shield competition and the phone has been ringing hot with all the news and views from the greatest club competition in Australia. Here’s what we are hearing:
AND THEN THERE were four - it’s grand final qualifier week, headlined by the massive double header at North Sydney Oval with Randwick, Eastwood, Manly and Northern Suburbs all on show.
Around The Traps reckons that there’s barely anything between any of the four sides on their day and it’s looming as the most open Shute Shield final series in years.
So where does the winning edge come from as we head towards the sharp end of the competition?
Well Randwick must be rated as the form side, Eastwood had that relentless Uni-at-their-peak feel about them last weekend, Norths are just getting it done while the Marlins loom as the dangerous ugly duckling of the group.
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