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The Tahs certainly seem to be banking on no Rebels

George fucking Thornton... how time flies. It'll depend on the length of the loan contract (out till end of June for full super or till end of may and extendable?) but I can't imagine the Tahs would be paying much for Pierretto outside of wages, flights and accom. There would be (at least some...

Leota didn't play last week: Tualima came into 8 and Maiava onto the bench.

RA contracts are Nov-Oct no? There will probably be some early release negotiated to get some wages off the books, but by default that's the Australian contracting period and hence they should be available for club stuff barring injury/surgery or National duties.

GOd I hate rugbypass Such a terribly formatted and broken site. Can't find shit anywhere

I think this is unsurprising. With the Rebels shit dragging well on, and the struggles with keeping quality front rowers fit, RA wouldn't want Tupou playing in France if they planned to have him still playing Tests, and Leinster need to make decisions for 24-25 now, and won't have the chance to...

Yes. A large number of rebels players are registered with Wests, partially as part of the cohesion strategy/time in saddle together nonsense that everyone is buying too much into, partially because of the three interrupted Dewar Shield seasons creating lack of gametime opportunities down here...

I mean, the results aren't fabulous, but there's a lot more capped Samoan/Tongan internationals in the squads this season, which is mostly the point of the sides existence, no? Sure, the squad is bulked out with a "best of NPC" group, but unless it's a literal money pit for NZ Rugby, from World...

Difficult circumstances all about. I'm fully anticipating a reasonably budget side in 2025, probably 2026 as well, if we do continue at Tarneit. A number of external seniors will stay, at least initially, but it will be locals, budget players and youth players filling out the bulk of the...

I admire your optimism but zero chance. Have seen practically no promotion for the Wallaroos test whatsoever. Almost hush hush.

Very amusing that the exact week Pone goes elsewhere one of the tightheads get injured.

Going very early there methinks. 2 or 3 caps this season is enough to keep building into 2025. His last 4 games have been excellent, but he was dropped to the bench earlier in the season after a bit of 2nd year blues so it's not all roses.

It's a Kiwi, don't bother with that line of reasoning

I don't think there's a suggestion that we'll see a smashing together of 2 sides we did with the 2018 rebels. But as the weakest performing Australian side, known losses of players at both top and bottom end, and being the only one managed by RA, I think it would be difficult to imagine that...

I think "punch above our weight" comment is pretty much wrong, objectively, but the rest is fairly reasonable.

I presume some combination of age and gender to determine if attendances are driven by families vs groups of younger blokes vs groups of older blokes etc.

Happy enough with the game in general. Can't do much about HIAs. But why oh why did we end up in a situation where we didn't have a hooker on the bench? Warm up shenanigans happen: and Dobbins is in Brisbane anyway to play for Wests today, so surely it's not a "he was left in Melbourne" situation.

For those which were asking @Derpus here is the footage: (starts at 00:18) There's sort of two parts to my query in my head. Firstly: are we happy in general about the refs choice to give an on-field yellow? To my mind, that was an always illegal action that comfortably met the threshold of...

I think you have a lot more faith in the Rebels than I do, particularly without LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) and neither Proctor or Feliuai (I'm not a huge fan of his, but the structure he provides is potentially very important) available in the available in the centers. I don't expect this one to be close without...

Not big on Fullback and Winger captains. Bit far away from the action.