Aussie Community Rugby
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@NTA previously they paid (were supposed to paid) directly to the club? yeah, our registration and fees are tied, cant register without paying...cant be added to a team sheet without registering....always makes the first round interesting when it "clicks" for people on sat morning
we've had a change two, 9th team added to the Dewar shield (Kiwi Hawthorn) played before but had dropped down to the premiership for a decade maybe
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Community Rugby:
@NTA previously they paid (were supposed to paid) directly to the club? yeah, our registration and fees are tied, cant register without paying...cant be added to a team sheet without registering....always makes the first round interesting when it "clicks" for people on sat morning
Correct. We could take cash, card, bank transfer.... I even set it up on our fucking Square site despite the ripoff fees.
Speaking of which: 2% on rego payments is a rort. Rugby Australia needs to sort that shit out.
I posted this in our player chat:
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Bro it's Brissy prem grade, they probably get jerked off after the game
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@Bovidae said in Aussie Community Rugby:
As was mentioned in the Exodus thread Travis Church is one of the coaches so has brought over some Te Awamutu Sports players (e.g. Nordstrom, Smiler-Ah Kiong) and others with NZ connections. Quite a few it seems.
Aha. I consider myself informed.
I shudder to think of the money WSTB are spending to try and get First Grade into the finals - not just player fees, but also accommodation etc. They've been running on fumes and big donations the last few years, financially speaking, and their lower grades* and Colts** are getting pumped every week. Last year they won some impressive games playing hard and skilful Pasifika tyle rugby but just weren't fit enough to go against the big boys.
This year maybe it will help them go further in First XV, but I hear a lot of the guys who were shifted down to Seconds got the shits with the imports being valued over club loyalty.
*I think 2nd and 3rd XV won 3 matches between then out of 18 rounds last year. They don't field 4th Grade
**Colts might have had 2 wins in First XV and a draw in 2nd XV. They don't field Colts 3. -
@mariner4life said in Aussie Community Rugby:
Bro it's Brissy prem grade, they probably get jerked off after the game
QPR and QRU are certainly getting a handy out of it - this is one club not mentioned in the list above:
Insurance $57.08
Injury Fund $36.92
QRU $55.00
QPR $33.00That's $182 then the club fees are something like $270 on top.
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the levies going up from even juniors is disgusting.
especially for the effort the QRU put in to community rugby
but hey, the Reds have good players. And i am sure the corporate box at Suncorp is amazing.
And the game wonders why everyone plays league
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A bloke at work is coaching Colts at West Harbour Pirates. They've been Pasifika heavy (like WSTB) in the last couple of decades, and one of the bottom-ranked teams because they can't compete with the East. Their Colts approach has changed with the arrival of a Kiwi bloke this year.
Side note: I had a call with this Kiwi chap to discuss Colts strategies, and he said he doesn't really understand why the Premier comp is 4 Grades + 3 Colts, when back home it is basically As, Bs, 21s and 19s.
Anyway they're bringing in some kids from Country Unions to try and bolster their numbers at West Harbour, and the guy at work said it is making a few of the "established" kids work a fuckload harder.
See these Country kids are coming in from family businesses (farms, industry, etc) to give rugby a crack, and they know they have to give it everything if they want an opportunity at the big time, and simultaneously leaving their family a man short. They didn't have this option before, so they're busting arse.
All the city kids are realising that "just turn up" isn't going to cut it any more if they want to play Grade. Pirates have gone from barely having enough for 3 Colts sides, to training numbers consistently north of 70.
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
Premier Rugby here in Sydney is a bit of a multi-tiered calamity, with 4 Grades and 3 Colts (U20) sides per club.... in theory.
In practice it isn't that. Clubs like Western Sydney Two Blues (formerly Parramatta Two Blues) are importing most of their First Grade squad this year it would seem. A shitload of them are Kiwis who are new to Sydney and/or Australia.
Club/provincial names taken from the WSTB Instagram account - there are other clubs listed against their profiles and I have not verified any of these:
Darius Mafileo (Manwatu)
Cody Nordstrom (Waikato)
Mio Fuimaono (Te Awamutu)
Simione Ofa (BOP, Counties, Mako)
Nic Snyman (Counties 7s)
Latrell Smiler-Ah Kiong (Te Awamutu, King Country)
Liam Udy-Johns (Hawkes Bay / Southland)
Meli Sifa (Naki)
Cruise Dunster (King Country/NZ Maori)
Joseph Nansen (Papatoetoe)
Donald Brighouse (NZ U20, Otago/Naki, Moana??)Have read that something like five Southland premier players are following Lachie Albert to Easts.
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@WoodysRFC said in Aussie Community Rugby:
Have read that something like five Southland premier players are following Lachie Albert to Easts.
Jeez they were already pretty strong...
I know there has been a bit of attrition for guys heading to MLR across the clubs, and that several won't have a 4th Grade - and nor should they because that is bullshit.
