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Hate to say it but Koroibete is completely wasted in this Rebels team. I don't think he's going to see much ball this season.

Depends who you've got in there already too. If it's a bullocking Hurricanes centre likely to wreak havoc on the Rebels, it's not worth it.

It looked to me like Luatua's hit did start at shoulder height but then slipped up to neck height. Probably borderline yellow/red last season but definitely red this season. A hell of a lot of games this season are going to be decided by the new laws. Worth a punt on the rank outsiders just on...

I think the main reason Stiles is mad is that when they interviewed him about what they spoke about at half time he said "we played too much ball in our half in these difficult conditions" and that the plan for the second half was to play up their end. And the team then proceeded to completely...

Assuming you're using Fox fantasy, yes, that should work. I hadn't thought of doing that but will keep it in mind for the future!

Hard to judge in those conditions, they looked every bit as bad as the Force vs Waratahs last week, but I agree it doesn't look good for the Reds. The handling was dire but beyond that the lineout was woeful and they didn't adapt to the conditions. The Crusaders are going to murder us next...

Terrible ref, but no excuse for the terrible Reds. Reds should have had enough to win that even including that ref.

Why is Moore even still out there? Had a terrible night.

Anyone have Nabuli on their fantasy team? ;) I said previously I hoped the Reds would work out how to beat the rush defence, looks like they did. Kerevi's break and then Duncan P's kick, textbook stuff.

That was one of the most butchered try opportunities I've seen in a long time. Perfect example by Quade of how to deal with a rush defence, gets it to Kerevi, Kerevi has runners either side of him with only the fullback to beat, and loses the ball in contact. Even the 2016 Reds would have...

God, the Reds were entertaining in 2010 and 2011... I'd forgotten Ant Fainga'a could ever break the line like that. And those cutout passes from Cooper, he doesn't seem to be able to do that any more. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Now, let's RTCs.

You could be right Scrubber. Beauden Barrett and the Bus both red carded in the first 10 for high tackles, NMS goes off after re-injuring himself shortly after. Koroibete with a maiden game hat-trick and the scrum battle tips the Rebels' way because of Weeks' extra kilo after eating the entire...

Bookies are giving the Rebels around a 24 point head start. Depends on the Canes choose to play, I think. They may treat it a bit like the Sunwolves game where they took the foot off the gas in the last 20 to conserve themselves for the tougher rounds against Kiwi opposition, or they may see...

Canes say the venue is the Cake Tin. Can probably take them as the authority on the subject! Could be a long afternoon for the Rebels. If they can get Hanson, Naivalu and Koroibete on the field it will help a lot, but there are just too many injuries there to see them really threatening this...

I thought Smith was good. He wasn't in the running for MOTM or anything but for a guy playing his first regular match in that team that's all you can ask for really. I think Smith at 36 will be playing a similar sort of game to Hodgson (solid breakdown, solid defence, general pest and...

After so many years watching Richard Graham completely reshuffle the lineup when he only needed to make a single one-for-one change, it's a bloody relief to see Stiles employ exactly the same matchday 23 except for the switch to Tupou on the bench.

Yeah that's what I figured. It's odd that the other sites can manage to maintain accurate stats the evening of the game but Fox can't.

They just fixed the points. Looks much more respectable now - my score went from 240 to 405. Stats still not fixed though and lockout not lifted, but shouldn't be far away. Guys like Hooper, McKenzie, Creevy etc look far more like what they should be, and Frisby got smacked from 28 down to 13...

If you like our depth at lock, wait til you see our backrow stocks! :eek:

Paper today said Quade hurt his knee but will be fit for the weekend. Only in doubt currently is Simmons with a cork which may not be such a bad thing - One of Rodda or Neville to start and the other on the bench presumably.