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There was a lot of place holder teams in global rapid rugby… I dont think he was ever interested in creating a new league. Just keeping the force relevant while the RA landscape allowed them to reenter the comp.

Same scenario as Matt Giquel a few years back. Was at the rebels, came back to gallopers for a few games then went to France. Losing a super rugby team and having a total of 4 doesn’t really help keep Aussie talent in Australia.

This is some apple to oranges comparison dragging the “world game” and the upside of the America media honeypot compared to Australia small media landscape where our code is 4th on the rung in terms of footy popularity. Unless Rupert Murdoch is walking thru the door saying he wants to do a...

Tim Sampson was offered a job in the eco system when given the boot by the force

I mean Melbourne is a great place to live (I’d rather live there then shithole Sydney) The brand and Beale might of wanted to be rebels so the wallaby top up is kind of moot. Does anyone want to shed light on all the real estate RA/Tahs deals last couple of years… fancy new HQ (do the tahs use...

You won’t believe that do you. Maybe on paper the rebels did, but NSW rugby is always propped up by RA/NSW powerbrokers at the expense of grassroots and other provinces. All the marquee signings, all the wallaby top ups… most of it seems to go straight to NSW. Happy to see your figures though...

If the rebels fold / you can kiss any hope of super rugbyAU good bye.. I already thought 5 team comp was boring. But imagine a rotation where your team is playing the same opponent every month. Need super rugby to expand, get a bigger tv deal and push all our chips in with the kiwis!

My apologies guys - I was talking rebels related content in the Aussie exotics thread -

If there’s one position group the rebels are stacked at… it’s the back row. While it suck’s to lose Kemeny. They won’t miss him unless they get in injury scenario and depth is tested… Speaking of that I heard that Zac Hough tore his ACL in offseason, any truth? personally thought he was close...

Agree with this. Even though I’m camp HMP hard to evaluate a trial when you not getting run with the 1’s. also with the scoreline the way it was. The reds probably took their foot off the pedal and played a more conservative approach.

Turn up on Saturday and go to the glue factory. if you’d like to do more then Phil probably the guy to point you in the right direction.

I know Rugby Australia is broke and incompetent but good to see the news about Angus Chrichton has a foot out the door at the roosters and headed for French rugby. League fans kick rugby when we are on life support but their game can’t even offer a grass is greener scenario for their players to...

Of course club rugby is our breeding ground. Play them 80 minutes. there’s absolutely no need to rest anyone in cotton wool when we are 4 years away from next World Cup and argument can be made these players don’t get enough rugby.

I have Tahs winning the wooden spoon. They’ll pick up some wins here and there.

If wing is an issue and centres isn’t - maybe send Flook out to the sting and look for a different 12/13 pairing.

I share that preference for Campbell. Even though Petaia is the better fullback. wing is shambles, last year when they stuck Campbell on the wing and Petaia at fullback Jock just looked disinterested and not the calibre of player he is in 15. if wing is a huge question mark and you have...

There’s a trial against south’s on March 2nd in rugby explorer but that says reds development team

Tasty! Would the reds have sufficient players from both reds and reds academy to run 2x teams of 23? If not. Would love to see the outer fringe guys they have to pluck from clubland as you could get a sense of whose close to be picked up from 3rd tier

i agree with you Wilson… but if a betting agency or pokie club somehow saved the rebels. I would be the first person to turn a blind eye because all the other codes do it

I thought Hamish McLennan played hard ball with NzRU and said we need a bigger slice of the pie and then the kiwis caved