New England Free Jacks

That's all right.

No, I can, well, I can add, because I, uh, um, uh, they got, they got our boy, Oscar Lennon, from New England.

He's, he's, uh, he's officially signed back for-

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... good, great, great player while he was here at New England, I have to say.

Even in the bet, we had a horrible season this last year, but-

It's the crazy rugby thing.

Like I said before, it's what Alex Magleby and others seized on at the Free Jacks.

This is rugby.

It's a bit different.

Then he got involved with Otago as a, an attack coach.

And then, of course, off to New England, um, Free Jacks, where he's had a lot of success there.

I think he may have won a three-peat of titles in the MLR.

But in between times- He's also been over to Toyota Verblitz as well, where he spent a bit of time with, um, with, with Steve, Steve Hansen.

Um, a lot of people are saying they're probably rubbish, but I'm pretty sure they're ...

We- they've confirmed that the Chicago Hounds have talked to URC at least, and I think it was the Hounds and the Free Jacks have both at least talked to URC.

I honestly think that this was probably teams eyeing up a way of continuing should MLR have folded.

USA team in the URC I think would have to be a dif- a, like, a new franchise, honestly.

Chicago Hounds, another Chicago Hounds player, uh, Mark O'Keefe out there on the other wing.

And then Mitch Wilson from the Free Jacks at fullback, and then the pretty much one reserve for them, Julian Roberts.

Strong wings and fullbacks in that list, if you ask me.

I'm not sure why Mitch Wilson gets grief from some fans.

This grouping, and we're going to start, folks, with each team.

We're going to go with the Free Jacks first, in spite of the fact they didn't have a first-round pick.

James, real quick, can you just take a snapshot of why they didn't have a first-round pick?

Absolutely.

If you remember way back to the last offseason, October 2025-ish, it suddenly appeared on the disciplinary page on MLR that the Free Jacks had been penalized their first round pick for tampering with Anthem RC about the return of Mitch Wilson from the Rising Stars back to New England.

They forfeited their first round pick to Anthem.

That first round pick, as it turned out, was going to be second overall.

round is four picks, not five.