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Reg, you'd know something about Fines. I believe he is a No 9 from the Brisbane Premier competition. With both Lucas and Lonegan in the squad, wouldn't that be sufficient cover at 9?

Looked very promising in earlier days. Was surprised when he opted to go offshore.

Not meaning to stoke the coals, but conceding the comments about the Rebels' squad are on the money, just what did the coaching team set out to test and what would they have got out of such a meaningless exercise. The most pertinent issue to me is the lost opportunity to use the game to...

Amirite, under-estimate the Brumbies at your peril. At least 7 regular starters did not start the trial on Saturday; Sio, Mann-Rea, Pocock, Powell, Lealiifano, Peni, Kuridrani. Of those, only Joe Powell had a later involvement. That is a lot of improvement yet to come into the side. Undoubtedly...

Gnostic, that pretty much sums up the way I've been impressed, or not, by Hunt as well. And, in answer to tragic, unfortunately there have been more consistently average performers in the Wallabies in the past year or two than I'd like to see.

It does seem odd to have so many blow-ins when the club is in a rebuilding phase, trying to integrate two separate Super Rugby squads into one entity. I would have thought the emphasis at this time would have been to get as many of the contracted (perhaps not Wallabies) players on the field together.

FP, the Brumbies' starting side as expected was more experienced than the Rebels' one. But how many of the following have you heard about playing together for ages in Super Rugby or NRC? Mees Erasmus, Connal McInerney, Harry Lloyd, Darcy Swain, Angus Allen, Ryan Lonergan, Noah Lolesio, Len...

Final score Brumbies 50 - Rebels 19, eight tries to three. But more important was the game itself; the skills on show, the combinations and the approach of the two sides to their play. The most obvious impression of the game to my eyes was the dominance of the Brumbies, especially in defense...

No Folau Fainga'a or Josh Mann-Rea. Opportunity for McInerny at hooker. Will there be a starting squad announced before the game, or a program at the game?

Not buying into Killer's arguments about Clyne vis-a-vis Twiggy at all, but I am flabbergasted that a suggestion that Clyne should go is being met with such apparent disagreement by so many posters in their responses. Regardless of motivations, Clyne has been a disruptive and especially...

Good one Sully. But anyone who watched that game knows that he had no support in the situation and had little option other than to kick. It wasn't a well placed kick (what box kicks are?), but what lost the game was the missed tackle by you-know-who that let the try in. Hope you are not too...

As a non-Reds fan, this is good to see. Higgers has always been a favourite since he was one of the standouts in the ill fated ARC, along with Ben Lucas, Ben Alexander and Christian Lealiifano. He was in excellent form last year, and has good experience as captain at the Rebels. The...

Not sure that I would actually like to see it happen, but one step might be to allow All Blacks' eligibility to apply to NZ players in Aus Super teams.

Just how good is the rush defense in 7s. Very rarely seen; defense is usually very passive and the attacking team mostly has dominance, but the Aussie girls took on all comers in defense and turned the game on its ear. Expect to see others using the same strategy in future tournaments. Congrats...

That was a particularly poor exhibition of refereeing in the Canada/Australia men's game. Still, the right result in the end with Aus prevailing something like 27 to 5 unearned points to Canada.

English winger (Breach?) is second highest try scorer in this tournament. She has some gas and can find the line, but really only with the assistance of the No 4, who is very skillful, playing inside her.

For many of us, the 2018 season kicks off on Saturday 3 February with the trial match between the current conference champions, the Brumbies, and the pretenders, the Rebels. The match will herald the new start for the Rebels after significantly strengthening their playing roster with many...

Very impressed with Sykes for Aus. Haven't seen her play before but she has the knack of putting supports through plenty of gaps as well as being a good attacking option herself.

I don't disagree with your conclusion MST, but I do wonder where in Victoria would the description of the region being deeply entrenched in AFL not apply? As far as I can see, rugby in Victoria is really confined to Melbourne and a very small proportion of Melbournites at that.

Right on the money Dru. Cheika certainly has issues when it comes to identifying and using good players. He also invariably over-rates quite a few very ordinary performers.