Anything less then 3 wins from our first 4 games will be disappointing.
Come on. You can’t go on the recruitment run you have and aim so low. Top 4 would be disappointing. Missing finals would be worthy of an investigation.
Anything less then 3 wins from our first 4 games will be disappointing.
Same here their best starting XV will be stacked with players with wallabies and Aus A capsThinking the same thing. Can't ask for a better season opener to gain momentum. My off season confidence is rising. Hopefully Gordon gets through the RWC unscathed.
Do I think we can finish top 4? No chance, do I think we will struggle to make the 8 again? Yes. Look at who we beat in 2023, Tahs, Reds, Moana, Force. None of them were real contenders this year. I don't have faith in this coaching squad turning things around.Come on. You can’t go on the recruitment run you have and aim so low. Top 4 would be disappointing. Missing finals would be worthy of an investigation.
Do I think we can finish top 4? No chance, do I think we will struggle to make the 8 again? Yes. Look at who we beat in 2023, Tahs, Reds, Moana, Force. None of them were real contenders this year. I don't have faith in this coaching squad turning things around.
Yeah, and plenty of times before we had great squads on paper and performed like rubbish. After years of disappointing results you can't blame me for not getting my hopes up.Really? They should be disbanded if they don’t make the finals with that squad.
Do I think we can finish top 4? No chance, do I think we will struggle to make the 8 again? Yes. Look at who we beat in 2023, Tahs, Reds, Moana, Force. None of them were real contenders this year. I don't have faith in this coaching squad turning things around.
They've had stronger squads and failed. Its what the Rebels do.Come on. You can’t go on the recruitment run you have and aim so low. Top 4 would be disappointing. Missing finals would be worthy of an investigation.
Think you are overstating this. They've got, what, one recognised centre on the books?Really? They should be disbanded if they don’t make the finals with that squad.
Really? We have a bunch of broken down props, Uelese who everyone claims must dirt on Eddie he's so bad. No quality locks, with maybe discarded Salakai-Loto playing out of position there. Only one wallaby in the backrow and dubious at best, certainly no Fraser McReight. A no-name Blues extended squad member at 8. Scrumhalves who? No Wallaby captain Tate McDermott. A flyhalf who's played 1.5 seasons and can't kick no centres at all and some sevens rejects on the wings. All coached by Wessels-lite who has no proven record whatsoever. Where's our try scoring record breaking man machine Vunivalu? Our hitman Paisami? Reds are dripping in gold. Best Wallaby of the past decade in JO'C! The messiah's son himself in Tom Lyangh. If you guys aren't minor premiers, Les should walk the plank in his first season.Really? They should be disbanded if they don’t make the finals with that squad.
This just sounds like an argument for disbanding the Rebels now rather than waiting on resultsReally? We have a bunch of broken down props, Uelese who everyone claims must dirt on Eddie he's so bad. No quality locks, with maybe discarded Salakai-Loto playing out of position there. Only one wallaby in the backrow and dubious at best, certainly no Fraser McReight. A no-name Blues extended squad member at 8. Scrumhalves who? No Wallaby captain Tate McDermott. A flyhalf who's played 1.5 seasons and can't kick no centres at all and some sevens rejects on the wings. All coached by Wessels-lite who has no proven record whatsoever. Where's our try scoring record breaking man machine Vunivalu? Our hitman Paisami? Reds are dripping in gold. Best Wallaby of the past decade in JO'C! The messiah's son himself in Tom Lyangh. If you guys aren't minor premiers, Les should walk the plank in his first season.
Disbanding any Australian team is a mistake, you need 5 teams including one in Melbourne just for market value. This shrinking to greatness BS from the beginning of professionalism is total wank. Don't look at the way of the past for future success in Australia, go out and do something fucking new. Ireland have, it's taken 10 years to see the results even though some argued for a long time Ireland need a strong Munster pack to be successful. If Australia go back to 3 or 4 teams like the Sydney elite want, I'll bet they drop out of the top 10 rankings on a regular basis to. Look what shrinking has done to Wales recently.This just sounds like an argument for disbanding the Rebels now rather than waiting on results
Really? We have a bunch of broken down props, Uelese who everyone claims must dirt on Eddie he's so bad. No quality locks, with maybe discarded Salakai-Loto playing out of position there. Only one wallaby in the backrow and dubious at best, certainly no Fraser McReight. A no-name Blues extended squad member at 8. Scrumhalves who? No Wallaby captain Tate McDermott. A flyhalf who's played 1.5 seasons and can't kick no centres at all and some sevens rejects on the wings. All coached by Wessels-lite who has no proven record whatsoever. Where's our try scoring record breaking man machine Vunivalu? Our hitman Paisami? Reds are dripping in gold. Best Wallaby of the past decade in JO'C! The messiah's son himself in Tom Lyangh. If you guys aren't minor premiers, Les should walk the plank in his first season.
Putting the coaching staff to one side, as far as I can tell, we need three things to go very right.
1) Gordon, Proctor, LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) & Canham need to fit enough to start every single week.
2) Proctor needs to be Tamati Ellison 2.0 for us in terms of backline leadership, organisation and structural defence.
3) SOMEONE needs to nail down that 12 jersey ongoing. I don't care who that is, Ripley, D. Vaihu, Jooste, Ili, Naea, even Proctor himself is Dauganu is preferred at 13, but the chopping and changing and lack of impact from players in that position was the most obvious source of frailty in the side last year.
Supposedly, they've also finally (how they didn't have one of the books already I'll never know) got a sports psychologist on to work with the group full time rather than providing piecemeal support, which should hopefully assist with those long periods of ineffectiveness we regularly experienced.
I think if Proctor is in 12 we'll probably see Daugunu in 13.1 Gibbon
2 Uelese
3 Tupou
4 Canham
5 LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto)
6 Kemeny
7 Wilkin
8 Leota
9 Maunder
10 Gordon
11 Daugunu
12 Proctor
13 Kellaway
14 Anderson
15 G.Vaihu
16 Mafi
17 Elof
18 Pone
19 Smith
20 Ekuasi
21 Maiava
22 Tuttle
23 Ripley
If I had to guess that’s how I think the team would look at the start of next year.
If Jones is going to be picking Kellaway at 15 for the Wallabies I would actually prefer him to play there for the Rebels. So I am hoping Ripley gets to a level where he can start in the 13 jersey
Reg is baiting- he knows despite your recruitment you don’t have the quality in a number of positions (8,9,12,11,14) to really push that hard.Really? They should be disbanded if they don’t make the finals with that squad.
Reg is baiting- he knows despite your recruitment you don’t have the quality in a number of positions (8,9,12,11,14) to really push that hard.
Nup always finals (at least past two decades). Will always remember being robbed by Skevvies in the '13 final by a dodgy touch judge on their payroll, and no I haven't updated my biases in the past 10 years.