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If Matt Lucas is the answer at scrumhalf then we're in worse trouble than I thought.

Ha well that's the thing of it, I don't really like Debreczeni, he's not my kind of player at all. But I like the process. They found a young, cheap, talented, guy with skills almost uniquely suited to the gameplan they're trying to implement. Can't ask for much more than that from a...

Do you really think they're just a game managing flyhalf away? I don't. The Rebels have a stable of one-paced, one-dimensional, backs who don't work nearly hard enough in support, and an undersized forward pack who play way above their weight. You seem to be arguing both sides of the toss...

It doesn't tell you anything about context though. What was the gameplan, who was the opponent, was he making the correct decisions, how many of those passes were to advantage, what sort of ball was he getting? It tells you basic involvement numbers but that's it. There's no way to look at those...

If your problem is with the Rebels recruitment and retention of players you're not going to find much of an argument from me. I think they should have done more to keep Hegarty around. He's getting the rose-tinted glasses treatment now he's left, but at the very least he was still a good backup...

Mike Harris isn't good. If he's your argument you're going to need to do a bit better. I think you're bang on about the latter half of last season - the NRC in particular. No coincidence that it coincides with a couple of concussions, a shoulder injury, and losing Stirzaker to injury. When...

Christ. What did English do? That probably does mean Tuipolotu to 13, Crawford to the wing, and Hodge to fullback. I think Matsushima is in for the Veainu treatment. Sealed his fate when he tried a couple of things against the Bulls and got ragdolled into touch each time. TT isn't going to...

Something else that's been bugging me, why is the work off the ball so poor? The kick-chase is terrible, they're poor getting back to return kicks, they don't work hard enough on attack, the support runners are virtually non-existent. And that sort of stuff isn't talent based. Not everyone is...

Seeing as only one of those injuries occurred at home I highly doubt it. Two bad hamstring, and two quad, injuries is weird. Obviously we have no idea what's going on, but it's funny how those sort of injuries happen with far less regularity to teams with really top S&C guys. @pjm, totally...

I'm not willing to throw the towel in on Debreczeni just yet. He was always going to be a long-term project, his excellent first NRC - playing for essentially a Super Rugby team against semi-pros - raised some pretty unrealistic expectations. He's had some injury issues which seem to have shaken...

Another soft tissue injury? Harris, Hodge, Cummins, now Ellison? That's starting to sound like a S&C issue to me.

I don't think he's been helped this year by Meehan looping passes behind him, but yeah. He really hasn't improved in the way you'd expect him to.

The problem isn't running rugby, it's atrocious decision making, direction, and leadership. Meehan and Debreczeni have been shocking.

Lol he's a Queenslander lol? It was a shit offload, but it was also shit communication from Shipperly. God we're an aimless side on attack. No one works, they seem to have no idea where to go. Anything longer than two phases and the ideas are exhausted.

Shipperly should have been calling for it earlier, or at least letting Placid know Osbourne was on him. The Rebels were so average. Aimless around the park, what are they even trying to do?

I wish. Doubt McGahan would be interested though, unless they're thinking about him at 13? Love the Pama Fou pick up. JP du Plessis is probably the worst player to wear Rebels colours. I still remember him in that first pre-season, utterly inept.

As long as you have a reasonably solid core of players, roster churn is a very good thing IMO. Make the players compete and if they're not up to it move them on. When you go back and look at some of the old teams there was some serious junk around.

I think it's fair to say you've never really rated Stirzaker though? The tries argument is a reasonable one, especially given the difficulties we've had picking them up over the last few years. I think Stirzaker is comfortably the better player though. The fact that his passes actually go flat...

It's a tricky balance. You obviously don't want to just throw a game and give some of your big dogs a rest, but cynically they have to be thinking about it given the travel and minutes some of the boys have put in. Thought Fuglistaller was really good when he came on, we've got amazing depth...

Was surprised by just how much better Stirzaker's passing and speed of decision making was than Meehan's when he came on. Doesn't have the same kicking game, but his fundamentals are much, much, better. Did see him grab his shoulder after a tackle, so I wonder if he's still not 100%. If he's...