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As usual my blind optimism sees the rebels a good chance here. I expect they will be leading at 60 when blackadder brings on the subs then things will go the crusaders way for the final 20. The winner will be decided by the Rebels mental step from last year. If it was a small one then Saders...

So years ago I was hinting to Mrs AFL_Converted that I needed a Rebels scale. I suppose if they keep comming I can take dctargers suggestion and knit a blanket for when I can afford my Weary Dunlop membership. Perhaps the rims of the caps can be "tiled" to make a matching umbrella.

I am still tormented by another Melbourne team that had a good start to the season then played Perth and got totally taken off the park. Different comp, different team and different ground I know but still I don't think we should get cocky with this one. The Spirit have underperformed so far...

Well done Tahs. I would not say best team all year but certainly for the last half of the season and I truely think the best team in the comp won this one. Well done Crusaders too. Getting through a tough NZ comp to reach the final was a great effort. I look forward to the Bledisloe and...

I am really happy to see the ref put a stop to the usual crusaders scruffy stuff at the breakdown. All the New Zealand teams but particularily the crusaders have gotten away with that for too long. Should make this game a real cracker.

Massive work by Hugh Pyle to force a turnover in the maul but we knock on again

Yep. Very soft and caused by a very poor kick chase.

We Well with the abysmal record Tex had predicting rebels wins in the game thread this year we must be a walk up to win this one ;-). (Just kidding Tex , long time fan) For some reason I have felt optimistic about the SA tour. There is nothing to justify it. Injuries in key positions have us...

Welcome back to rugby Tom English. Has been on the park but absent from the game until tonight. Good game appart from a lack of awareness at one point. Turnovers continue to plague us and we are too deep in attack. We lost metres on our own ball passed by so far to our backs and I think this...

Nah. Let the reds stump up for the medical bill. ;-)

I think the designers saw how bad the looked on the field and wanted to get as many of them out of circulation as possible. I could not even watch a reply of the game, but that may not have been entirely because of the jumpers.

Great to see Shota re-sign for one more year. With Sexton back next year we have real depth at 2. I won't speculate on a starting team though. I have given up trying to figure out Tony's motives

I am not sure what game most people saw tonight nut I thought we were not willing to attack enough. When you are deep in your own half, sure kick (although we did not kick well the decision was correct) what bothered me was that in the first half we were in our half, God nd forward (only a metre...

Not much of this is about 2014 though. I think it is time for that Rebels 2015 thread

I think To'omua was class from his first game back when I was still a Brumbies fan. (I guess I still have a soft slot but it's all Rebels now). He just had a really bad run of injuries preventing him progressing. Remember he was a wallabies tourist very early (but injured himself early in his...

Apologies if this has already been mentioned in this thread already but what is the story with entering the ruck this year. I have only seen rebels games with the odd oth Australia or New Zealand match but it seems that you have to be almost facing your own goal line before they call it entering...

I cannot agree with that. The sharks barely got off the line to tackle, forward passes and dropped ball all nigh. There was a real opportunity for the rebels to win that one but we made too many mistakes. Big game from Jones again and I thought Mitch was huge. McMahon made a huge impact when he...

It is supposed to be a wet night. This will become a kicking duel of wet weather rugby and we are totally out gunned for that game. I love tipping Rebels upsets (I won money v brumblies) but I cannot feel this one going our way.

I am a big fan of Higgers and at top form I think he adds more to the wobs just because of his mongrel factor. Benny Mac does not have that. Having said that Higgers is way down in his form this year. Last year he was an inspiration and near unstoppable. This year he seems a bit lost. I think...

I fine it amazing that something like that is not picked by at least one of the assistant refs. They should have a wide enough view to see that. In Mcmahon's case Smith got up again but so did McMahon and ended up lifting him. Totally accidental but still a card. They need to be really tough on...