NRC: Hot Shots, Pie-Baggers – and more! – Season Wrap
Who topped the points and try-scoring charts in this year’s NRC?
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Reborn in the USA: Jed Gillespie on a year to remember (mostly!)
If Intrust Super Shute Shield supporters adopted the chants of adulation bestowed upon the rarity of a home grown player turning out for their local team, which is found in soccer’s tribal EPL, Eastwood and Greater Sydney Rams prop Jed Gillespie may well find himself running out to the strains of ‘He’s one of our own’ coming from the TG Millner faithful every other week.
Read morePlay it again Sam: Eagles prop Needs, chasing further success
He can still remember the day. Heading to Coffs Harbour Stadium with his Dad because the touring British & Irish Lions, a side containing most of the Northern Hemisphere’s finest talent at that time – think Jason Leonard, Ronan O’Gara, Neil Jenkins, Ben Cohen and more – had come to town. But for a 10-year-old Sam Needs, it was the guys in the other jerseys that captured his imagination.
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