Notable juniors who played in the Eastern Suburbs District Junior Rugby League include: Anthony Cherrington, Blake Ayshford, Bryan Fletcher, Craig Field, Craig Salvatori, Ferris Ashton, Ian Rubin, James Tamou, Jim Dymock, John Peard, Johnny Mayes, Kevin Hastings, Kevin Junee, Lachlan Lam, Luke Ricketson, Luke Towers, Matthew Elliott, Paul Dunn, Ryan Cross, Sandor Earl, Shaun Kenny Dowall, Tom Symonds, Victor Radley, When the Sydney Roosters or Eastern Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club (ESDRLFC) first entered the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition in 1908, the tricolours would become neighbours to fellow city counterpart, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, then the South Sydney District Rugby League Football Club (SSDRLFC).
The original articles of association binding both the ESDRLFC and SSDRLFC with the NSWRL defined the territories of both clubs.==March 2023== Easts were formed to represent the local government areas of the City of Sydney, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Vaucluse, Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick.
In the mid-20th century, the southern half of Roosters junior territory within the Randwick local government area was handed to South Sydney.
The Rabbitohs were in a highly successful period and had established South Sydney Juniors Rugby League Club in Kingsford, Roosters territory in recent times.
The NSWRL, controlled at the time by a Board with a ruling faction of representatives from South Sydney (Terry Parker), Balmain (Keith Barnes), Canterbury (Peter Moore) and Manly (Ken Arthurson), refused to redraw the boundaries.
[citation needed] After spending its previous last few years in the 1990s affiliated with the Rabbitohs, the Colts have announced they will be returning to the fold and allying themselves with their traditional senior partners, the Roosters.
Areas which may field future junior Rugby League teams in the East of Sydney include Rose Bay, Woolloomooloo, Waverley, Bondi Junction and North-Eastern Randwick and Coogee.