WA Boy Returns to the Fold - Brett Sheehan Signs with Western Force

[mudskipper]

Lucky the Shute shield and ARC were on TV then, eh Mud?

Hey .... I attended the first ARC match at North Sydney Oval and Sheehan was playing... Seen him in Sydney many times...

Come-on... You guys don't know what rugby live looks like until you get out of Subi... I'm sure half the Force supports there think there at a AFL match...

[jargan83]

I attended the first ARC match at North Sydney Oval

Oh My God, Muddy went to one game.........

[palitu]

i did the score board at three of the spirit games, and i watch the local comp... and i saw france v england in sydney. we all have seen it at better venues..

Oh crap why am i replying to all this crap. i should encourage any of you!

[shasta]

Oh crap why am i replying to all this crap. i should encourage any of you!

Some of us only do it to see what he'll come out with next.

[innocent quokka]

yup, he's the angry smurf. easy to get him riled up.

I remember an interview with Kurtley Beale saying that when he was in school, Sheehan had a part time job helping to coach the Joeys team. The boys used to really enjoy getting Sheeno fired up and angry. Apparently it was pretty easy to do.

What's with you guys signing all the ranga halfbacks? Don't tell me you've put Jono on as a recruitment scout...

[andrewM]

Forgive my ignorance - I didn't know that Sheehan was from WA. Did he play 1st grade in WA at all before being lured East?

[travelling_gerry]

Born in Geraldton..

[jargan83]

Forgive my ignorance - I didn't know that Sheehan was from WA. Did he play 1st grade in WA at all before being lured East?

Didn't he move East as a teenager?

[laura]

Born in Geraldton, Western Australia on 16 September 1979 and schooled at St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Sheehan signed on to play Rugby League with the Brisbane Broncos after school. Thus began a four-year odyssey that saw him play for the Broncos, Northern Eagles and South Sydney.


Returning to Rugby with Warringah in 2004, Sheehan’s no-nonsense style has won him many admirers and after playing four matches for the Reds in 2005, he headed back to NSW and is lining up for his fourth season with the Waratahs.

Sheehan earned his 50th provincial cap in the HSBC Waratahs win over the Blues in Auckland in round 7 of the 2009 Super 14.


http://www.nswrugby.com.au/HSBCWarat...ttSheehan.aspx

[shasta]

Forgive my ignorance - I didn't know that Sheehan was from WA. Did he play 1st grade in WA at all before being lured East?

Good point. I dunno how old he was when he went east, but I remember seeing somewhere he'd been playing in various teams with Cro Magnon since he was 13.

As we know, Geraldton was a regular hot spot for junior Rugby development during the 1980's but Sheehan seems to have learned his Rugby at Joey's.

Having said that, it's probably fair enough to claim him as a native Sandgroper going by same criteria the wise media men from the east use on the rest of our squad.

[Swee_82]

Hey, the local news outlets are happy to refer to Mitchell Johnson as a West Australian, so I fail to see how the angry smurf cant be one.

[jargan83]

Hey, the local news outlets are happy to refer to Mitchell Johnson as a West Australian, so I fail to see how the angry smurf cant be one.

We all know that not true

about Mitchell Johnson that is, not that the local news outlets don't report it

[slomo]

Come-on... You guys don't know what rugby live looks like until you get out of Subi... I'm sure half the Force supports there think there at a AFL match...

i'm sure most of us around here have seen rugby in a venue other than subi.....so i think weve got a pretty good idea of what it would look like....

[blueandblack]

Hey, the local news outlets are happy to refer to Mitchell Johnson as a West Australian, so I fail to see how the angry smurf cant be one.

and Adam Gilchrist too. I'm sure they call James Brayshaw a Vic as well.

[jargan83]

so i think weve got a pretty good idea of what it would look like....

well we went to Canberra Stadium the same amount of times as Muddy did this year, difference is that we are 4000km away as opposed to 3 hours