Owen Finegan excited for Shute Shield return
Former Wallaby Owen Finegan says he is looking forward to working with the talented crop of young forwards at Randwick next season.
Finegan will assist Shannon Fraser at Coogee Oval next year and return to the club where he started his career.
“Yeah, it’s a really good opportunity. Last year was the first season that I hadn’t coached a senior team since I finished playing, so it is good to be back in senior rugby and back at Randwick where it all started,” he told Rugby News.
Randwick were the form team of the competition for much of the 2016 Shute Shield season, but dropped to fifth position late in the regular season and lost to Southern Districts in the opening week of the finals.
“That Southern Districts game could have gone either way, it was fairly tight, but Randwick have a good young squad with lots of exciting players,” he said.
“There is room for improvement though, so that is exciting. I don’t think we’ll need to reinvent the wheel, it’s more about t