Sydney Stars

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Sydney Stars
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Founded 2014
Location Sydney, Australia
Ground(s) Leichhardt Oval
(Capacity: 22,000)
Coach(es) Peter Playford
Captain(s) David Hickey
League(s) National Rugby Championship
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
sydneystarsrugby.com.au

The Sydney Stars is an Australian rugby union football team that competes in the National Rugby Championship (NRC). The Stars team was formed as a joint venture between the Sydney University and Balmain rugby clubs, and is one of four New South Wales teams in the competition.[1]

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The NRC was launched in 2014, reinstating the national competition after an absence of six years.[2] Sydney University was initially interested in entering the NRC competition as a stand-alone club,[3] but submitted a joint bid with Balmain as the Sydney Stars.[4]

The Sydney Stars' colours of gold, blue and black are drawn from the rugby clubs of Sydney University and Balmain.[5] The team logo is the name "Sydney" in blue capitals outlined in white above the name "Stars" in gold capitals outlined in blue, and with the central letter "A" formed as the top point of a stylised five-pointed star, also in gold and outlined in blue. The entire design is outlined in black.[5]

History

The previous national competition was the Australian Rugby Championship (ARC), which was discontinued in 2007 after only one season. After setting up a consultative process in 2006 which culminated in a working session of some 70 delegates from around the country, the Australian Rugby Union announced that a new eight-team national competition would commence in 2007.[6] New South Wales was allocated three teams and it was decided that representative teams would be formed to play out of the Central Coast, Western Sydney, and Sydney.[7] The decision was controversial because two New South Wales clubs, Sydney University and Randwick, had wanted to enter stand-alone teams in the new competition.[8][9]

Sydney Fleet (ARC team)

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Sydney Fleet logo.
Sydney Fleet colours (2007)

The Sydney Fleet was formed as one of three New South Wales teams to participate in the ARC. The Fleet's colors were blue and gold, the same colours used by past teams representing all of Sydney.[10] The team's local rivals were the Western Sydney Rams and Central Coast Rays.

The logo of the Sydney Fleet featured a traditional anchor, similar to that on the Coat of arms of Sydney. The name, logo and team colours were revealed at the official launch of the team held aboard the museum ship HMAS Vampire at the Australian National Maritime Museum, in Darling Harbour on 27 February 2007.[10]

Existing clubs aligned with the Sydney Fleet included Sydney University, Randwick, Eastern Suburbs and Southern Districts.[11] The team played at North Sydney Oval which was also the home ground of the Northern Suburbs Rugby Club, although that club was aligned with the Central Coast Rays team for the ARC competition.[12]

Head coach of the Sydney Fleet was Col "Snake" Jeffs, who was also the NSW Country head coach at the time. Former Wallaby and Waratah Scott Bowen (Easts head coach) and former Waratah and Italy Test lock Mark Giacheri (Randwick head coach) were the assistant coaches.[13] Tim Davidson was the captain.[14]

The Australian Rugby Championship was terminated at the end of 2007 after only one season of competition, with the Australian Rugby Union citing higher costs than budgeted and further projected financial losses.[15] The Sydney Fleet team was disbanded with the end of the ARC competition.

Year Pos Pld W D L F A +/- BP Pts   Play-offs
2007 5th 8 4 0 4 212 244 −32 4 20   Did not compete

National Rugby Championship

In December 2013, the ARU announced that the national competition was to be relaunched, with the National Rugby Championship (NRC) commencing in 2014.[16] Expressions of interest were open to any interested parties, with the accepted bids finalised in early 2014.[17] The Sydney University initially expressed interest in entering the NRC competition as a stand-alone club.[3] However, a joint venture between Sydney University and Balmain rugby club (run by Sydney businessman Warren Livingstone, founder of the sports-tourism group Fanatics) was successful.[4][18] On 24 March 2014 it was announced that the Sydney Stars team would play in the NRC competition.[19][20]

Sydney University's coach Chris Malone was named as the head coach of the Sydney Stars, with Cameron Blades as forwards coach and Peter Playford as backs coach. Jack Farrar and Matt Dunning were appointed as support personnel.[1] Pat McCutcheon was named as captain.[21]

Stadium

The home ground for the Sydney Stars is Leichhardt Oval,[1] the long-term home of rugby league team, the Balmain Tigers. The ground has primarily hosted rugby league and association football teams over the years, and is still the main home ground for the Wests Tigers rugby league team playing in the NRL competition.[22]

Current squad

The squad for the 2015 National Rugby Championship season:[23]

 

Props

Hookers

Locks

  

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

  

Centres

Wingers

  • Australia Henry Clunies-Ross
  • Australia Harry Jones
  • Australia Jim Stewart
  • Australia Christian Yassmin

Fullbacks

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped, 1 denotes allocated national player additional to the contracted squad.

Wider training squad:

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  • Australia Calum Bucking (loose forward)
  • Australia Nick Coaldrake (lock)
  • Wales Dafi Davies (lock)
  • Australia Nathaniel Deans (lock)
  • New Zealand Folau Fainga'a (hooker)
  • Australia Jason Havea (loose forward)
  • Australia Tom Shaw (loose forward)
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  • Australia Samuel Barclay (centre)
  • Australia Jonny Loseli (wing)
  • Australia Jack Macklin (flyhalf)
  • Australia Joey Maston (wing)
  • Australia Scott Meekan (flyhalf)
  • Australia Connor O'Shea (flyhalf)

Records

Honours

Season standings

National Rugby Championship

Year Pos Pld W D L F A +/- BP Pts   Play-offs  
2015 4th 8 4 0 4 241 314 −73 4 20   Semi-final loss to Brisbane City by 47–32.
2014 9th 8 1 1 6 211 356 −145 1 7   Did not compete

Head coaches

Captains

Squads

Gallery

  • Sydney Stars versus Canberra Vikings NRC Round 5 (3).jpg

    Sydney Stars exit the field post Round 5

  • Sydney Stars versus Canberra Vikings NRC Round 5 (6).jpg

    Sydney Stars feed the scrum

  • Sydney Stars versus Canberra Vikings NRC Round 5 (7).jpg

    Sydney Stars scrum down

  • Sydney Stars versus Canberra Vikings NRC Round 5 (11).jpg

    Sydney Stars tackled

  • Sydney Stars versus Canberra Vikings NRC Round 5 (12).jpg

    Sydney Stars under pressure

  • Sydney Stars versus Canberra Vikings NRC Round 5 (10).jpg

    Sydney Stars feed the scrum

See also

References

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