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It’s not out of the ordinary. The physio role at some of these places pay below market value, so often get people in for a season then they move on to another business.

Eloff would 100% be on the wallabies radar if he stays. He’s superb. Not far off AAT in my eyes, but not in the class of Tupou.

Apparently Rebels have signed Mafi from the reds and Talakai is back. Not sure what that means for the current front row stocks. Eloff and Fa’amasuili are both good Super Rugby players potentially international class. Orr and Gibbon doing well, not sure how this fits into the squad unless someone is...

Mafi off to Rebels. Uelese still undecided, perhaps a bit of Thorn hard grit is what he needs to develop into the player he should be

Icely moved towards an extended squad role, hence taking up opportunities to play for Aus7s. Pincus been injured

The chat about Holloway to back row is strange. His best rugby has always been at lock and has generally failed to impress when in the backrow. Pre moving overseas he never lived upto promise at 6 or 8 but then had a sustained run at lock and played his best rugby. Obviously come back and has...

I have seen this mentioned by a few people that have strangely made their mind up he was terrible in Super Rugby last year. Reality is he barely played Super Rugby last year after finishing the Japanese season, only got 2-3 games in for the Rebels. One of those games was against the Crusaders where he was...

Here’s a controversial thing to say, the rebels are better than the force but one rhetoric is openly available to say but the other is taboo in the Australian rugby landscape despite many contemplating it might be the truth.

Rugby is only 25yrs into professionalism, it’s so far behind in certain aspects compared to a lot of other sports money can still be something that doesn’t have as great an influence as it does in other sports. Trends clearly show in sports with advanced professionalism that money is one of the...

I love what DC has done in NSW but I find the SS connection tedious. Their squad is full on guys that have barely played an extended amount of time at club level, predominately school boy stars signed straight out of school. Hardly any of the guys in the squad have played a minute at club level...

Holloway is a great shout along with Samu to come off the bench. Literally covers all locks and backrow spots.

I’m a fan of Kaitu’u but have people not been watching this year. He got yanked at half time against the Tahs, struggling to surpass Ready at the Force and hasn’t had a standout game since around round 2. I’m not even sure if he’s still captain as Godwin has been for a number of weeks now...

Kaitu’u ain’t getting near that match day squad on this years form. Porecki and the Brums hookers will occupy those spots

Personally I think dropping teams isn’t a good solution. If a country the size of Aus cannot sustain 5 teams there is considerably greater issues than a short term hit of depth to appease those across the ditch.

He’s 3yrs into a Super Rugby tenure and has less wins than the Rebels do this year. It’s not like it’s a scratch club either, the team had existing framework to build from. The Rebels and Force are both crap but the difference is the narrative behind each other, one is rightfully ridiculed the other it’s...

The guy that’s won the same amount of games as the rebels in the last 2 years, less games this year and less games over 3 years?

Couple of guys in the Drua team went through Dewar. Two Tahs are also Victorian players. (Tuipulotu and Faulkner). Vailanu was also in the Vic system when he first moved to Aus from NZ Seru Uru is another that spent his initial time in Aus in Dewar. Was training with Rebels wider squad but...

I’m pretty sure Morgan Turinui reiterated this in a podcast last year when people were blowing up about the Tahs not strengthening Western Sydney.

One of those achievements was literally last season. Been injured for half this season

Exposes more players to higher pressure games as well as marginally extending the season. Stan will also be thankful that a few more of the games involve teams with something to still play for.