29 Sep How three public school boys changed Australian rugby forever
By Norm Tasker By the middle 1970s, the schoolboy production line available to the game, especially to the Sydney clubs, was an absolute goldmine. The Waratah Shield...
By Norm Tasker By the middle 1970s, the schoolboy production line available to the game, especially to the Sydney clubs, was an absolute goldmine. The Waratah Shield...
By Jon Geddes The presence of one of international rugby’s most devastating forwards proved instrumental in Manly’s 1997 victorious Shute Shield campaign. Amazingly, the legendary Willie Ofahengaue...
Southern Districts’ search for a maiden Shute Shield title has been filled with heartbreak. The club, which formed in 1989 following the merger of Port Hacking...
By Norm Tasker The 1950s was still the era of Empire, when kids sang Rule Britannia on Empire Day, we all had bonfires on Empire Night,...
Eastwood backrower Hugh Perrett won a Shute Shield premiership in his first season in 2003 and another in his last a full 13 years later,...
By Jon Geddes IT was one of the most incredible moments in the colourful history of the Shute Shield – the afternoon the fired-up linesman and...
By Jon Geddes IT should have been a difficult decision, but three of Australia’s most knowledge rugby doyens didn’t hesitate in naming Mark Ella and Ken...
Since 1992, the Bronze Boot award has been given to the best Australian and New Zealand Schoolboy of the season, with the likes of David...
By Sean Maloney Mad Monday 2008. Manly had just rolled Warringah in the upset of the season and we were camped at our scrumhalf Paddy Pearce’s joint...
It's an argument heard regularly at rugby clubs right around Australia and typically one that can never be resolved. Which players would get a start in...