Shute Shield: Tahs Show Their Colours As New Club Season Looms
Waratahs Rugby Media Release -
This year’s Shute Shield is set to be stronger than ever with the announcement of a new naming rights sponsor to bolster the existing roll call of exciting rugby talent.
From 2014, the Sydney Premiership Competition will become the Magners Shute Shield. Packed full of exciting and emerging Super Rugby talent, the tournament will once again be available on free to air TV, with the ABC televising one match of each round live as part of its longstanding support of club rugby.
“The ABC is proud to once again be the only free to air broadcaster of rugby and to showcase the best club rugby in the country,” said ABC Head of Sport and Entertainment Justin Holdsforth.
“After a successful 2013 and now in our nineteenth continuous year of broadcasting the