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The conventional wisdom is that you normally play most of your fit preferred XV by your last trial. The Tahs are playing all of their fit starting XV. Some NZ teams take a different approach and don't seen to mind a slower start to the year. I wonder if they were instructed to leave those...

Last year I was disappointed in a few things, but primarily it was the lack of structure the Reds showed. Under Link, we had different game plans but always the same base structure (and he brought this to the Wallabies: those claiming the last Test vs NZ before Link's resignation was a...

Gee, that Chiefs team is disappointing. Barely any expected starters from the normal team are starting, they are carrying a couple on the bench though. So many players left in NZ.

Sounds like the Chiefs will be fielding most of their B team by that list of players missing.

Frisby is a fantastic attacking halfback, but his defence is woeful. He was almost a non-tackling player at times in the NRC. Hopefully the Reds training staff really work on that aspect of his game. The Frisby / McIntyre defensive combo for City was a heart attack waiting to happen. The...

$50 / month buys an online subscription to Foxtel Go / Play, which you can get SuperRugby coverage from plus all the other sports channels (with NRL, AFL, NFL, soccer, and so on) and quite a few crappy Foxtel channels on top to boot. For anything approaching even $30 or $40 a month, you'd need...

I understand that digital rights are sold by SANZAR as part of the whole right package, so not much the ARU can do in that regard I think.

Yeah, was somewhat eerily similar to last year, with little structure and composure in general play. To be fair, the second string pack was hammered by the Rebels second stringers at the ruck in the last quarter. A bit worrying, but no the end of the world. A lot of the problem was poor...

Rebels over again, 26 - 13. Rebels have been dominating the game completely in the last quarter, Reds not even in it.

Rebels in from a 5m maul, Shipperley had the ball at the back!

Reds scrum just marched the Rebels back 5m but couldn't draw a penalty. Rebels back on attack. Crowd just over 4k according to Reg on commentary.

Knock on trying to dive over the tryline by the Rebels. Harris had a clean break earlier to put the Rebels in the Reds 22.

Sam Jeffries is a big unit. Lots of pressure from the Rebels now.

Reds with a lineout move get to 1m out but the Rebels turn it over and try to run from behind their own tryline but are shadowed into touch. Reds lose the lineout, Rebels get it and kick into the Reds 22. JJT ignored support and puts in an average clearing kick.

Both teams will really, really need to pick up their games going into the Super Rugby season so far.

That's three tries from mauls as Reds score another. Previous one was from the Rebels as their maul splintered and Ah Nau barged over despite the attentions of a couple of tacklers. Then the Reds get another scrum penalty and get a 5m lineout, first maul Higgers was penalised for bringing it...

Reds seemed to be winning most facets, but Rebels defence has held. English has scored a good opportunistic try by robbing Hunt of the ball inside the Rebels 22 and running the length of the field. To be fair to the Rebels, they should have scored a few others as well, Debreczeni bombed one...

Ben Daley.

So did the SCG Trust playing bastard hard ball end up costing the Tahs must money? Hopefully the SCG Trust came to the table with a decent deal in the end after playing dirty to scupper the ANZ deals.

When is the starting side going to be named?