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I heard a few rumours at training tonight, and I thought I might monger a few to spark a bit of interest in the moribund world of club rugby as featured on this site lately.
Palmyra have the most drop dead gorgeous physio ever seen in the history of WA rugby. She is probably also very good at her job, but that will be a minor consideration. Associates eat your heart out.
Things are getting better and better at University. They have acquired all of Associates front row, plus a few spares, and half of Kalamunda, including their star winger and no.8. You can also add a couple of useful Soaks coaches, including Andy Cole, in that mix. No club has been spared in Uni's drive to field the best team that the taxpayers' money can buy this season.
Nedlands and Wests haven't let the grass grow under their feet in that department either, and there are a lot of cashed up players around in those clubs.
Poor old Cottesloe will again have to rely on their six or so Force players to make up the numbers, 'cause they've got bugger all else.
Joondalup have also recruited strongly from other clubs in their vicinity, but when you're reduced to buying players from Wanneroo and Perth-Bayswater, it's a sure admission that you're stuffed.
I haven't heard much about the trial games played last weekend, as I was so enthralled at the prospect they offered that I went fishing instead. I heard Cottesloe got touched up by Paly's third grade, and that West's stalwart Carl (forget his surname for the moment) was Wests delegated spy for the match.
My pre season tip is Uni, Wests and Nedlands, in that order. As a bookie mate once advised me, always follow the money.
Never let the truth get in the way of bullshit.
To be fair, he's 100% right about the physio.
So nothing changes. The usual suspects do nothing to help promote local rugby with another boatload of Junior All Blacks, the cheque books come out to poach other club's players, including Uni if Fulvio is right, after recent threats of withdrawals of their allowances from wealthy forefathers. Ho hum in for another predictable few months.
I don't want to ruin your day guys, but that hot physio you're all talking about, used to be a man. Sorry.
Nadia Kutchyakokov?
Poaching rumour just in....a person named Luke purporting to be from the Nedlands rugby club (I'm sure you can work out who it is) contacted a Pally player just in from NZ 3 weeks ago (not a junior All Black or Kiwi with an Irish accent) about him potentially swapping clubs for this year. Player advised that he was happy at his new club. The person purporting to be Luke said, 'Don't worry about Pally, we'll just reimburse them any of their costs'. The player had the decency to say to Luke, he wasn't into that type of behaviour and was committed to the club!
Enough said!!