Rugby News 2013 Shute Shield Team of the Year
by Brendan Bradford -
With the end of the season upon us, the Rugby News team of Jim Davis, Jim Webster, Terry Smith, Paul Cook and myself got our collective heads together and spent the last few days compiling the inaugural Rugby News Shute Shield Team of the Year.
We imposed relatively few restrictions on who could be selected, but they must have played a decent amount of Shute Shield rugby in 2013. This disqualified a few players, as did injury. There were no limits on the number of players selected from each club.
A couple of players were shoo-ins and plenty of debate surrounded others with the backrow being a particular point of contention. There’s no lack of depth in the 6, 7 and 8 jerseys in Sydney club rugby.
It wasn’t an easy task, and not one undertaken lightly. Plenty of worthy players were overlooked and another strong side co