Rebels 2023

[Rebel man]

Love seeing an add I can’t remember one since the first year. I do feel off the field the club is making some ground. I hope we can translate that onto the field.

 

[GoMelbRebels]

Hi all, this is the Club here. Glad to be on board...

We've launched our 2023 membership campaign #BeARebel today, check out the video here

Then sign up at https://membership.melbournerebels.com.au/

As part of the membership this year we'll be offering new membership rewards (choose from 20+ items that will be delivered to you rather than collecting a cap and scarf at a game), the return and increase of guest passes, and many more fan experience opportunities in 2023 than in recent years.

Great to have you in our little group of tragics! We are mostly friendly and polite (except if one of them other teams get us riled up!).

 

[Rebel man]

Great to have you in our little group of tragics! We are mostly friendly and polite (except if one of them other teams get us riled up!).

Or we have a bad loss. I have spat the dummy before

 

[MelbourneRebels]

Great to have you in our little group of tragics! We are mostly friendly and polite (except if one of them other teams get us riled up!).

Loyalists... are important.

On that note, we are running a member subcommittee all season long in 2023 so we will be taking member feedback on board reguarly. Had our first meeting last month, and will be having two more before the end of the year tackling topics like filling seats and also better engagement with clubs across Victoria.

 

[MelbourneRebels]

Love seeing an add I can’t remember one since the first year. I do feel off the field the club is making some ground. I hope we can translate that onto the field.

For the first time in a few years now the Club has had some genuine planning time ahead of a season, and hopefully the right people in place off-field to make some positive changes.

 

[swingpass]

I just want to see a progression on the field that is sustained. Like most of Australian rugby at the Rebels I see the same quite fundamental errors made by “professionals” year after year. It would be great to see some upskilling! I have regularly derided the team as having collectively the dumbest rugby brains of all the franchises. I have supported them from the get go, I love them, I have never thought they weren’t trying, in the past I don’t think the back room have helped much ( it appears very different and much much better now) but they have often played brain dead rugby. I’d love to see the basics performed and some thoughtful tactics and execution. Not much I know.

 

[MelbourneRebels]

Hear all that, but we will make it clear up front that this account is run by the administration/off-field team. No point in us getting into the minutiae of on-field but trust us, we also want that on-field success!

 

[swingpass]

Hear all that, but we will make it clear up front that this account is run by the administration/off-field team. No point in us getting into the minutiae of on-field but trust us, we also want that on-field success!

OK well, YOU guys are doing a bang up job

 

[Braveheart81]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1582598161176342529

Awful news for Matt Philip and the Rebels.

 

[Members Section]

FFS!

 

[Rebel man]

Trev better get out of that moon boot

 

[Wallaby Man]

Rebels are the most unlucky team with injuries.

 

[Members Section]

Hosea : no return date
Leota : see above
Pone : does anyone know how bad it actually was?
Philip : season
Monty : week 5 at best
Canham : hopefully fine
Gibbon : may need to be rested if he plays any part in spring as a front rower

seriously it the same shiz every season

 

[Rebel man]

Hosea : no return date
Leota : see above
Pone : does anyone know how bad it actually was?
Philip : season
Monty : week 5 at best
Canham : hopefully fine
Gibbon : may need to be rested if he plays any part in spring as a front rower

seriously it the same shiz every season

To be fair, the squad needs depth. I am frustrated as anyone with the injures but there is no good having a competitive 23 and nothing after that.

 

[GoMelbRebels]

Why Monty week 5 at best? Injury or 6 nations?

 

[GoMelbRebels]

And as for Matty Philip…

Bugger!

 

[SouthernX]

That sucks about Matt Philip.

A silver lining is an awesome opportunity now awaits for Angelo Smith. his training contract looks like it might end up being a super rugby gig.

 

[Proud Pig]

The problem is it is a catch 22 situation. The only way to bring in quality to the Rebels or Force is to offer them a starting place. If you are not an assured starter you may go to one of the big three to sit on the bench but you won't come to Melbourne or Perth. Therefore when we have injuries we don't have the necessary depth to cover but we can't get the depth because we can only recruit a core of starters. The Rebels and the Force will always be on the back foot when it comes to recruitment because we will never be any players first choice. It is the same old rule the rich get richer and the poor can please themselves.

 

[Members Section]

Why Monty week 5 at best? Injury or 6 nations?

 

[Wallaby Man]

Speculation time…. Rumours London Irish in trouble financially, any odds Coleman or Simmons wanting 1 more season in Aus for a late RWC push if they get pushed out of contract. Demand for services in locks is less than it would of been with the market having Eng internationals Ted Hill and Launchbury available