Australian Rugby Shield final standings

[beige]

This is old news but here are the final standings for the Australian Rugby Shield this year:

Final standings

(Tasmania Jack Jumpers lost all 3 of their non-competition games.)

[Moses]

NSW dominate yet another domestic competition. Fair enough too.

[beige]

What's the attitude of NSW Country supporters to the Waratahs, Moses?

[Moses]

Freaking awesome. I'm a country supporter, and I don't mind the Tahs

Plus the Tahs play some of their pre-season games in the country, Bathurst and Gosford come immediately to mind, I'm sure they've played others too.

[PerthGirl]

Why doesn't WA have a team in that Competition anymore?

[beige]

Why doesn't WA have a team in that Competition anymore?

Don't know, but some guesses:

- Rugby WA aligning its development programs with the Western Force
- Perth Spirit entering the ARC
- ARU then being short of money after the ARC

[NTT]

we lost the team after we gained s14 status. the organisers deemed our local comp would become too strong for the secondary unions to compete against seeing as we were already dominating the ARS

[beige]

They were still there in '06. They weren't in it last year but did a bit of a tour...

[NTT]

They were still there in '06. They weren't in it last year but did a bit of a tour...

correct

[beige]

Whatever happened to Des Thornton by the way?

[NTT]

Whatever happened to Des Thornton by the way?

uuummmmm dont know ......