The Shute Shield could finish the year without a winner for the first time since 1918 as the Sydney Rugby Union face a deadline to decide if the season can go ahead.
An Indigenous boy was left distraught after playing in the under-14s NSW Junior Rugby Union State Championship on June 14.
Cumberland City Council mayor Steve Christou has slammed the eastern bloc pushing ahead with plans to force a merger between three western Sydney Shute Shield clubs.
The three western Sydney clubs have been urged to merge to stay in next year’s Shute Shield. They have other ideas.
A letter from the president of Eastern Suburbs has called for Parramatta,Penrith and West Harbour to become a single club. But one of the trio wants to go it alone.
Former Wallabies hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau says a move to shake up the Shute Shield could devastate rugby’s presence out west,leaving other codes to have their pick of young talent.
Representatives from seven influential Sydney Shute Shield clubs have been meeting privately to discuss ways to improve the standard of premier rugby.
Penrith broke a seven-year losing drought last week but along with the Western Sydney Two Blues,the Emus say help has never been more needed in rugby’s most neglected region.
Sydney’s famous club rugby competition is an incongruous,anachronistic,unwieldy and brilliantly beautiful thing. It shouldn’t work,but it does.
Gordon and Easts will do battle this weekend for Australian Club Championship bragging rights ahead of a big year for the Shute Shield and Hospital Challenge Cup.
The Hills Shire Council has approved plans for a state-of-the-art sports complex in Castle Hill that will be the Woodies'new home.