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Had a chat to Gerrard on Friday before the game. He got back last week, and hopes to be playing this week.

Thats alright - its almost more punctual than when they show Wallabies matches on free to air down here.

Has anyone seen a team for the Australian Barbarians team who will be playing Rebel Rising (which is possibly the worst team name in sport) in the curtain raiser?

I forgot about our insider. Good to hear the Rebels are hearing and responding to the fans.

I think I see where youre coming from. How can there be die hard support for a team who has only been on the park four times, and never in regular season competition? I'm talking about the people who have been waiting for this for years, many of whom probably were part of '200' who went to the...

There has been a heap of discussion on that on the Melbourne Rebels official facebook page. The management line seems to be there is additional added value to being a member, however they have also indicated that they value feedback and will review at the end of season. Personally I think they...

from http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/leftfield-rebels-mix-johns-with-dash-of-afl-to-lure-wallabies-20110216-1awmb.html Sounds interesting, but I wonder what it really means. I think it is a positive having AFL coaches involved with kicking and high ball skills and I assume that...

My favourite bit was them renaming half the SA and NZ teams. Standouts included the Pretoria Bulls, Bloemfontein Cheetahs and the Hamilton Chiefs. I assume it was to try to give the readers some sort of easier geographical reference, but still average reporting.

Does anyone know if this would count towards their local content quota. If so it is a joke.

Not lacking originality and creativity by simply ripping off someone elses ideas?

He wasn't training on Sunday as far as I could tell.

He was running around on Sunday at the open training session with a truck load of tape on his left calf. I got there a bit late so wasn't sure if he was involved in the light contact practice match, but after that while all the other backs were practicing kicking he was running big squares on...

Didn't realised he played that many games, and agree about the standard. I only saw about one half of him in ITM cup and thought he was ok, but again didn't stand out. Will be interested to see how he fairs once he is fully fit with some game time under his belt. It actually poses an...

Wasn't he injured a fair bit in ITM Cup as well? From memory he only played a couple of games. I know he played in the Fiji game up at Ballarat but I don't remember him which means he probably didn't commit any howlers, but didn't show too much either. Having said that I couldn't see two corners...

Definitely Betham. Taumoepeau was wearing 11 as far as I can tell from the small amount of footage of him. Sifa wasn't clean shaven, Betham was, which you can confirm from the fan photos on the Rebels facebook page. No idea on Rooney though.

Maybe they should have had it in Melbourne. We will pay pretty much any price to get any event. Think we're up for about $70m for the F1s this year. Maybe if they could play a test as some sort of support event and then put all the players head to head in a Bledisloe Celebrity Grand Prix...

I didn't see enough of the first two trials to comment, but Mitchell for me was the pick of the wingers they used on Saturday. Interestingly Ross Oakley was on SEN yesterday afternoon saying that the team used in the first half against Fiji is pretty close to their first XV bar a few tweeks...

Well at the game at ballarat, mortlock is looking a bit stiff when he runs, but I never really took notice of his running style before. He ran an inside ball of cips for a nice try. Other standouts were cipriani looping back off vuna to tear through the defense and a nice vuna try tearing...

Don't know - the article mentions Gits was on the panel to appoint the backs coach, so probably. Yes he's a senior player, but surely the appointment of coaching staff should be beyond player influence, especially if the guys played together. "Hey Bernie, let me play 10, I got you the job here."

To use a percentage system you would need to rate it against total possible points. For example below, I have looked at some teams with similar positions on a theoretical ladder. Using Points Method: P W BP Pts A 9 5 3 23 B 10 5 3 23 C 9 4 3 19 and Using the %...