The Brains Trust - Rugby Pod

The fellas rip into the Stags first up loss to Otago under the roof, look at Countrys win over Otago Country and look ahead to the Stags R2 game vs BOP along with all other rep footy coming up this weekend!

Scott & Jeremy sink their teeth into the STAGS squad for 2021 and how the season is shaping up after a much improved 2020 campaign.  Town & Country teams are also discussed along with the Southland B & Southland U19 teams upcoming games.

Wow what a weekend of finals! Man of the moment for Woodlands Kieran Lee joins the lads to discuss that crazy Galbraith Shield final finish.  The lads talk over Wyndham's Ack Soper Shield win over Edendale and Collegiate Captain Daniel Low dials in to talk us through Collegiate's stellar season including Saturdays final win over Mataura.

Star & Stags legend Greg Pleasants-Tate joins the fellas to review and preview the Galbraith Shield semi finals and upcoming final between Woodlands and Star.  The Brains Trust then review and preview the Ack Soper and Gerald Dermody grades as they reach their finale. Grade review previews go in order this week!

The team are all back on board this week and are joined by Rugby Southland's Dermot Hughes to review all the final round robin action, talk competition structures and formats both this year and moving forward and look ahead to this weekends semi finals in the Galbraith, Ack Soper & Gerald Dermody Shields.

Waikaka and former Woodlands, Babas forward Ryan Koning joins Scott & Jeremy to talk us through his club footy journey and the lads get stuck into our usual review preview of all the Premier & Division 1 action. Plenty of laughs in this one along with some good rugby chat!

Woodlands & Stags halfback (15) Liam Howley joins Scott & Jeremy to chew over all the action from June 19th 2021.  The fellas review and preview Premier and Division 1 action and chuck in plenty of banter for good measure. 

**Note - please excuse the audio quality from Liams end - the Howley house hold not on the fibre network yet!**

Scott & Jeremy cast their eye over all the action from the Galbraith, Ack Soper & Gerald Dermody action from the 12th of June and look ahead to this weekends footy (19th June) where points tables will really begin to sort themselves out!

After a long weekend the fellas are back to dissect all the Premier and Division 1 action from games played mid-week before the long weekend as well as the two centenaries which took place. The lads cover off the latest Stags HP squad named in preparation for the NPC and salute John Hardie on a fabulous footy career.

As the first round comes to an end placings in various grades have been decided.  The fellas look over who has finished where in the Galbraith Shield, Ack Soper Shield and Gerald Dermody Shield, how the formats work and who is looking good for round one with a host of mid-week fixtures and a couple of big centenaries for Marist and Mossburn.