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. 

Waikiwi stalwart Kyle Mckenzie joins Scott and Jeremy on The Brains Trust to provide a look into the Waikiwi Senior set up in 2021 and dissect all the Premier and Division 1 action from the weekend and look ahead to the final round before the competitions split next week. 

Week 5 of Southland club rugby is in the books, Scott Jeremy and Bryce review all the action and look ahead to the second last week of the first round before competitions split into the championship rounds.   

As we get down to the last three weeks of the first round, the race for places in the next round of competitions is heating right up!  Scott, Jeremy and Bryce review all the action and look ahead to some crucial games in Premier and Division 1 this weekend. 

The fellas are back and are joined by POB legend and 2020 Stag Craig “Doofy” Smith to talk all things footy including POB’s good start to the Premier competition in 2021. The guys cover off some of the more predictable and surprising features of the season to date and preview all the action for round four this Saturday 8th May.

Scott & Jeremy dissect all the action from week three of Southland Club Rugby in Premier & Division 1. Due to no rugby this weekend there is no preview but the lads come up with a Premier form XV so far and discuss the hot topic of prop struggles in the region. 

Barbarians flanker and 2020 Southland Stag Jacob Coghlan joins The Brains Trust to give a Eastern Northern Barbarians perspective on club footy in Southland after two weeks of the 2021 season.  The fellas review all the week two action, Jacob discusses his experience of stepping into the Barbarians and making the Stags last year and the lads finish by looking ahead to week three this Saturday April 24th. 

Week 1 of Southland Club Rugby for 2021 is in the books.  Scott, Bryce & Jeremy review all the action and preview round 2 fixtures for this weekend, April 17th. 

Scott & Jeremy preview Division 1, Division 2 and Women's grades for the upcoming 2021 Southland club rugby season.  The fellas also have a sneaky look over all Presidents grade teams. 

Scott, Jeremy & Bryce preview all seven Premier teams and the Premier competition overall in Southland club rugby kicking off this Saturday April 10th 2021 

Scott sits down with 2020 Southland Stags Captain Tony Lamborn to talk about his rugby journey, his time in various teams around the world and his experiences leading the Stags to a much improved season last year. Tony also shares his some of his future plans on the footy field. 

Bryce sits down with former Southland Stag and the Prince of Riverton Phil Halder to chat through his journey not only on the footy field but his life and the effect rugby has had on him. 

For the final time in 2020 Scott, Bryce & Jeremy put on the headphones. The fellas rip into looking at the M10 Cup semi finals and give predictions for this weekends finals. The lads pick their M10 Cup MVP's, review the full professional rugby year that has been with some highlights and lowlights, and we look ahead to 2021 with some big and bold predictions. The Brains Trust Rugby Pod will be back bigger and better in 2021 when we rip into the next Southland Club Rugby Season.

Bryce, Jeremy & Scott are back this week for an in-depth footy chat. 4min ABs review 23min Stag Day 33min Stags Otago review 43min M10 Cup WK 10 preview and predictions 55min Alternative boutique venues in Southland for a Stags game The guys finish by discussing the future of the M10 Cup and Bryce tells us what he really thinks of crossover games and the current M10 structure