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Sydney Morning Herald on 2021-04-08 12:00

Why the Shute Shield is the grand old man of Australian rugby

Sydney’s famous club rugby competition is an incongruous, anachronistic, unwieldy and brilliantly beautiful thing. It shouldn’t work, but it does.

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