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The End of Season awards on are today at Crown, part of a Weary Dunlop Lunch. AWARDS Rod Macqueen Pursuit of Excellence - The player that best exemplifies the pursuit of excellence in all that he does - an excellent player who represents the pledge on & off the field, an excellent clubman...

Yeah, we'll just bench one of our bright young stars, who manages to get through a heap load of work, make fair few tackles (lead the comp almost) and our more than likely new captain, who is pretty much the heart and soul of the team. It's not NSW.

Since we've discussed the back-line, what should the all important back-row be? 6. Jones, 7. Higgers 8. Delve I can't see Higgers fitting in anywhere else. I hope we don't push out Jones, we'd be stupid to.

Confirmation that we've picked up Chris Thompson.

So that's the league vs league final scenario opposed to the separate competition. I'd imagine this scenario plays into the hands of the conference system critics. As you could essentially win the competition without playing a single team from one conference, opposed to two teams at the moment.

Was raised on Friday in the Rebels 2013 thread.

Agree with grouping RSA/Arg and AUS/NZ. This is something similar to the NFL structure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League#Regular_season We could use the term conference to describe the franchise grouping within a country and league for the conference groupings. How...

Phipps is down on form compared to last year, inconsistent at times (as you pointed out). I guess with Genia still playing, they've got two half-backs for opposed sessions. It'll be White or him when the cut is made.

The way to view a conference is like a mini competition. If you look at the NFL, they irregular matches within the conference etc. It'll simply be the case that SA teams won't everyone on a home/away basis. Many officials have been on record as stating that the conference system won't change...

How so? You still play the same amount of teams, from each conference. Instead of missing one SA team, you miss two, that's the purpose of the conference system.

Phipps really is a shadow of himself from last year.

What should our backline look like in 2013? 9: Phipps/Stirzaker 10: Beale 11: Vuna 12: Mitchell 13: Inman 14: JOC (James O'Connor)/Kingi 15: Kingi/JOC (James O'Connor)

Who should be the backup to Genia too? Phipps hasn't set the world on fire of late, nor White either. Flip a coin.

30-man squad is announced tomorrow. Other than the usual suspects, who is likely to be included? I'll put my hand up for Cadeyrn Neville again.

Yeah... Melbourne blew all their opponents off the pitch in every grade.

Pyle really needs to correct his running into contact, caught high on many occasions, unable to hit the grass. How about Neville too, showing some solid run and carry, even a few "show and goes".

Other than some silly handling errors and pointless grubber kicks, great effort. Outstanding impact from Stirzaker.

We need a BP win for that to happen. A win alone won't do it. Tahs have 11 BPs to our 7.

@stathipaxinos: Bad luck for Rebels' Jarrod Saffy. Neck problems not resolved and will need another scan in 3 months to determine future.

Yeah, Adam is that kind of guy. He came down to the pub on Good Friday last year, to watch us get spanked by the Blues.