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Uninterested, I hope. Seems like him rocketing straight into the top side means he's very much in the plan. Could be putting a bit of pressure on King and Bloomfield long term though, with Nonggorr and De Lutiis at the Reds there's not much room on the tight head side, Uys coming through might...

Uys straight onto the bench for the 19s is exciting, if he backs up well that's a lot of punch off the bench

He did get a few opportunities and was arguably on the path a 21 year old should be on, it only looks light on because we tend to rely too heavily on 20 year olds before they're quite ready. Beyond that he was maybe a bit of a victim of versatility - he's played 10, 12, 13 and 15 (maybe a bit of...

The previous clean out began at the end of November last year, after RA had backed away from centralising the Rebels. For centralisation to save the Rebels here it would likely have needed to happen at or before the beginning of COVID. It arguably should've happened back when the Force were cut...

It might be part of it, but $35 million is a lot more than the participation grants over the period in question. That was somewhere between 21.2 and 26.8 million, depending on whether or not a grant was paid for 2024 and whether or not the 2020 grant was at the old 5.6 million or the new 3.9...

An absolute classic from Crockett here: Nowhere but the Crusaders would the assumption be that the 3rd string (in reality 5th after Mounga and Burke departed so recently) fly half, sitting behind a 21 and a 24 year old, was in line for the All Blacks and a single season deal for an experienced...

Seems like there are more signings to come shortly: https://x.com/Reds_Rugby/status/1844177358795964803 It'll probably be mostly re-signings, but with squad announcements set for the end of the month I'm guessing it'll include some of the potential tourists to Japan who have been training with...

John Bryant re-signs for 2 years: https://reds.rugby/news/backrower-john-bryant-resigns-with-the-queensland-reds-through-2026-2024109 Never in doubt

Signing news inbound: https://x.com/Reds_Rugby/status/1844146416069091357

It's likely that whoever drops out will get more game time over those first two weeks with them running the show for Australia A. Big question will be how much Schmidt uses Edmed (if he ends up in the top squad, Christy's article said it was looking likely, not locked in) and whether or not he...

Yeah, no change in player behavior is 100% in favour of the 20 minute red card and runs counter to one of the main arguments against it - that it removes the disincentive to offend and in the worst case some player is going to go out early and intentionally put someone out of the game on their...

Yeah, though without knowing the specifics of the incident it sounds like the sort of thing that would mostly just see him cop some sort of plea deal and kicked out of NZ never to return if he didn't have the immunity, so the end result will probably be the same whether or not it's revoked.

I doubt it. I believe they sign a new contract once they agree to terms with a new team. Some may have an out allowing them to re-sign with the Rebels if they wanted to in some circumstances, but on the off chance the Rebels were to somehow make it back in for next year it's very unlikely they'd...

I expect it will be revoked shortly, seems well and truly like an abuse of the system. It could only be more perfect if it was a South African instead of one of ours...

Charlotte Caslick keen to turn out for the Reds next year: https://www.rugby.com.au/news/id-still-love-to-play-caslick-puts-hand-up-for-reds-super-rugby-w-stint-2024108

Eddie has always relied on extensive support teams in his assistant coaches, and ostensibly values quality input from a diverse team of rugby brains, which is why it's so frustrating that he put together such an ill suited team when he was here - it's the major difference between his previously...

A little surprised to see Sotutu there, have NZ got around to officially declaring the All Blacks XV as their second senior team yet? With so much talk of him looking to take up his English or Fijian qualification I'm a bit surprised to see him ready restart his stand down period for anything...

I don't think any of these things are quite true, or at least they're much more nuanced than that. Rennie wasn't too complicated on the face of it but he struggled with the step up to representative rugby (as opposed to club) and the way selection and development changes. His biggest issue...

I think you're only supposed to pick one of the responses chatgpt gives you...

They've got barbarians, heartland and Maori in the age group as well, but I believe schools is their top side, like u18s is for us.