Cameron Walker is one of the co-coaches for new club, Eastern Sydney Universities (previously UTS and UNSW), and has previously played on the NSW Bluebottles in 2018 and 2019. In this Community Voice article, he examines the decision to cancel the annual State Shield event for 2021 and the impacts this may have, as well as ways to mitigate these with proposed alternative events suitable to the current post-Covid climate of uncertainy.