In a little under 12 months, former Australian Schoolboys halfback Nick Duffy has rose from relative obscurity to make his Shute Shield debut, play in a grand final in front of almost 20,000 and earn a last minute Super Rugby call up to join the Waratahs on tour in Argentina. But there is still one memory that Duffy can’t shake and it’s the one that stung the most. “After we lost the grand final last year, the next day we all went around to our coach’s place and we were all feeling pretty upset. “We decided we didn’t want to have that feeling again, so we want to go one better this year.” Duffy moved from Sydney Uni to Norths in 2016, where he spent the year playing colts, before Simon Cron brought him into the Shoremen’s first XV in 2017. Despite his nerves, Duffy puts his smooth transition down to the quality of players around him. “I didn’t really know many of the guys that well, so I was a bit nervous, but I was pretty fortunate to have senior