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Luke Jones and Pat Leafa both have back injuries.

Fair point Lou75. Although Koroibete has a bit of x factor so once he starts showing a bit of that I am tipping there should be plenty of love for him.

Lou75 I read somewhere that Sefa and Marika are really good mates.

Bummer. Didn't look good when he went off last night.

That is something rugby league adjudicates better than rugby union. In rugby league 99 times out of 100 that would be called a strip.

Highlander35 as far as I know you are right these are the 12 players to have made their test debut during or after their time with the Rebels. Of the 95 players according to my calculations 42 have played test rugby at any time (ie so quite a number before they joined the Rebels). 24...

(Not Rebels 2016 related) I just ran into ex-Rebel James King and he told me he made his debut for the USA at the Americas Rugby Championship earlier this year. Something I didn't know (I may be a bit slow). But there is another country and player we can add to the list of ex-Rebel internationals.

Yes KevinO I was just thinking the other day that Inman couldn't came straight back into starting side. But he has enough runs in the bank to come onto bench. Unless Harris isn't fit and we move Hodge to fullback. Agree re Ellison, usually so solid in defence, dropped off a lot of tackles...

Same old mistakes from the Rebels and unfortunately the NZ teams make you pay when you make mistakes. Although the Blues did clock off and we were just a truck and trailer (and a conversion from the unpredictable Debreczeni) away from stealing the win). Sean McMahon keeps getting better, had a...

Highlander35 Dan didn't get a lot of game time. Although Jack hasn't been setting the world on fire so that may say something too.

I am also a Storm member and Koroibete is my favourite current player. He is lightning fast and strong. He does make some handling errors but the good far outweighs the bad. On Thursday night when I first heard that Rugby were chasing him (with my Storm hat on) I said oh no. Then I heard it was...

How well did Tamati play both in attack and defence? Our back line played well especially considering the backs that are injured. I was impressed with our defence in the 15 minutes after half time. Still making basic errors as others have said - dropped kick offs, not kicking penalties into...

If I remember rightly I'd give some kudos to Adam Thomson who was the person who stole the ball in the first place and then wasn't it Tamati who put on a little step at the line to poke his nose through and allow him to offload to Placid.

Tamati Ellison's wife gave birth during the game.

The article also says Sione Tuipulotu was named for the first time since his debut v Reds in Rd 3 but he also played v Sunwolves in Rd 4.

I too would like to see Matsushima get picked on bench. He seems to have some pace and some x factor. Alas he may be the 2016 version of Telusa Veainu.

AAMI Park makes sense. Although will be very busy area with Storm, Victory and Demons at AAMI Park and Collingwood next door. Lou75 I tend to agree with sponsor. Doesn't make sense to hold off until end of month. If we had a sponsor I could understand us holding announcement off until next...

I just read that the Rebels are set to leave their training base at Princes Park at the end of the month. Anyone know where Rebels are moving to? Also is sponsorship announcement at end of month timed to coincide with move in training base?

Rebels changed their style played attacking in first 45 or 50 mins. Should have finished Tahs off especially when Crawford was bundled into touch. Then Rebels went all defensive to try to hang on and almost blew it. Agree that Lees is terrible too seems to miss the bleeding obvious. But was bad...

Very happy with the first half. What about Smith's try, when Timani got the ball he was standing flat footed and I didn't think it would amount to much. Little did I know he would burst through the line and offload to Smith for a try.