All posts tagged "Jarrod Saffy"

  • Melbourne Rebels
    2011 Super Rugby Melbourne Rebels Player of the Year

    It was difficult to predict where the new kids on the block, the Melbourne Rebels, would finish in their debut year of Super Rugby. Well, difficult for Rugby Reg who tipped them to finish 10th in his season preview back in January. ‘With better depth, I reckon they’ll sneak past the Force...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Analysis: Rocky’s blindside replacement by the stats

    After sixteen rounds of this Super Rugby season, the Wallaby Captain and Blindside Flanker has played a total of 84 minutes – less than 7% of it. With Rocky Elsom unlikely to play any rugby before the Tri-Nations, it must surely be an understatement to say that the Wallabies blindside flanker position...

  • Rebels v. Reds Preview

    Ah, this takes me back. An impressionable teenager in a movie theatre in outback Queensland. The rebellious...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Ahh, let’s try that again. Rebels v Brumbies Preview.

    When you sit down to try to come up with a list of positives for the Rebels to take forward to this week’s game, following the loss to the Waratahs on Friday night there’s really only one standout. They aint playing the Tahs again! So early in the season it is difficult...

  • Melbourne Rebels
    With a Rebel yell they cried- “more, more, more”

    So sang Billy Idol (well…kinda) and so sang the ARU as they announced that the Melbourne Rebels would be the newest addition to the Australian Rugby professional landscape. MORE teams means MORE games and MORE money. More, more, more indeed. While money in the coffers is the driving force behind the ARU’s...