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He needs to stop drinking.

Ha sorry mate. I don't like booze bans. I think teams should be able to develop a strong enough culture to know where to draw the line. These aren't children, and prohibition doesn't work. If it's true, then there's a culture issue at the club and management are going to have to change things...

We don't know the circumstances unfortunately, and probably never will. My guess, and this is just a guess, is that Beale was in an argument with someone else - Vuna tried to break it up and got punched for his trouble.

Hard to know without the context, so I don't want to speculate too much. But if Beale is having the drink issues Vuna is implying, and if he attacked Vuna unprovoked he has to go. You just can't have senior players behaving like that.

Contracts need tearing up if true. Can't have players behaving like that. Now where to for next week? I'd bench Weeks, Robinson, Pyle, Fuglistaller, Higgers and Phipps. I'd say Delve as well, but he's captain so he won't be. He was incredibly poor last night though.

That really was disgraceful. Unless things turn around sharpish and some good wins start getting chalked up, there needs to be a big cleanout.

I don't even know what to say about this. How are they going to recover from this? And none of these guys can be considered for the Wallabies after this.

This is fucking disgraceful. We're going to lose 100+ to nil here. Has there ever, ever, been a performance this abject in Soup?

Heads are going to have to roll. This is a huge step back for the team.

Who's the Rebels forward coach? This is completely unacceptable. Absolute dereliction of the basics. Set pieces, maul, body position... all found utterly wanting. Shambles.

What's the scenario in which the Rebels win though? Do we boss the Sharks at the breakdown? Dominate territory? Bit of Bieber magic? Build up a big enough first half lead to compensate for the second half fadeout?

Cheers, that was my understanding of it, nice to have it confirmed. My point was that this isn't really Hill's second year of coaching the team, it's the third. And while there have been improvements, we don't look anywhere near pushing for the finals at the moment.

Look, he's not quite as good as that article suggests. He's a classy, well-rounded player who does the basics to a very high standard. He's not some freak athlete or anything, he's just a very good rugby player. He's definitely good enough to be playing Soup, but he's not worth hyperventilating...

His stats are off the chart as a lock. Really just silly. The worry with him is his hands. I reckon he's conceded about ten turnovers so far this year. If he could fix that he'd be a shoe-in for the squad.

Hill was really the coach in the first season wasn't he? I know what you mean. I see the boys play, and nine times out of ten I struggle to see how they'll win. Being competitive shouldn't really be enough. There's a lot of talent in the squad now, I don't think they're playing to their...

Oh no, I meant I hate the ARU sometimes.

You're in serious danger of hitting Queensland levels of preciousness here, Paradox.

He's been better off the bench so far. About as good a team as could be expected I think. Kingi has to sort his defence out.

Fair enough. I think the thing about the Rebels is that they actually have some incredibly versatile backs. Mitchell can play in the centres and wings, Kingi can play 9,10,11,14,15, JOC (James O'Connor) can play anywhere, Beale can play flyhalf or fullback, Woodward can play 10,11,14,15 etc. You'd have Kingi and...