Surviving the First Season: The Birth of the Shamrock Spirit
To make up the numbers the Club did two things: - they invented the names of some players and entered them on the Match sheets and/or they played whoever they could muster to run on under those names. The Club drew the ire of officialdom over the playing of unregistered players with the IDRU October Executive Meeting passing the following motion at one of their meetings: "that the Delegates of Woonona Shamrocks be requested to appear at the next meeting to explain irregularities in registration forms and results sheets, and failing their appearance, that the club be called upon to...
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