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I'd be starting Smith in the locks alongside either of Canham or Salakaia-Loto more often than not (probably with a bit of rotation for them). He's super reliable as an 80 minute player, particularly defensively and I think you can get more out of the Rebels pair by bomb squading them.

Linking up with Werchon has to be a big plus for him, both from a sunny coast standpoint and as a way for them to both push their case for the Reds selection going forward.

It's really great how many of these "new arrivals" have already had significant time playing and training with the squad. At this stage it's only Gibbs and some of the age grade guys who haven't been capped yet, and with the pre-season tour at least Gibbs should get a couple of games under his...

I thought McCulloch was more of a fullback than a wing?

Jorgensen at 15 probably, Reilly and Creighton as the main coverage for wing and fullback respectively.

Oh wow, I completely missed that one. I bit surprised none of Heremaia Murray, Mosese Dawai, Lebron Naea or Lukas Ripley were picked up to round out the size in the backs but Gibbs is definitely better coverage given the rest of the squad. I do woner if we might see Goldsborough given a bit of...

They definitely shouldn't when it's a cotton wad flying out of his nose rather than a tooth out of his mouth.

Wallabies squad

Jude Gibbs the big surprise there:

https://reds.rugby/news/reds-announce-squad-for-2025-super-rugby-pacific-20241111

Mike Catt has been coaching backs/attack since 2008, started with London Irish but has spent most of his time with test sides (England, Italy and Ireland). Comes in very well credentialed. McCaffery has less experience but has been coaching the Gungahlin in JID cup and more recently coaching...

2025 squad:

Fresh in our memories :(: And the playing squad:

Taine Riori and Floyd Aubrey farwelled this morning ahead of the squad naming: https://x.com/Reds_Rugby/status/1856096043001360829 I think that means we can assume everyone else is signed up for another year

The rankings are used to seed the pool draw for the world cup, being done at the end of next year. With a lions tour next year reducing our opportunity to improve our rankings it's pretty important we come out of this tour with some improvement. Ideally we want to make it into the top 6 by the...

Not sure you can extrapolate Barrett's stats over his whole ~132 test career like that - he's only scored 2 tries in his last 19 tests. Jordan has been so insanely consistent it does work like that for him. But even if Barret does somehow beat Jordan to the top, you wouldn't think he'd hold...

Probably would've looked like they were announcing the death of the competition with a schedule of obituaries to be read by the teams at the funeral, which might've actually made it their most liked post ever.

Squad announcement time schedule for tomorrow: https://x.com/SuperRugby/status/1855852960301170936

Restarts were a huge improvement on both sides of the ball - good to see us fixing the issues from the Rugby Championship and largely taking them cleanly when receiving.

Mason Grady, the centre/wing, picked up an ankle injury