Super disaster leads to fresh approach
THE All Blacks have been doing it for years but Australia’s Super rugby coaches have finally decided to share information for the benefit of their own teams and the Wallabies.
THE All Blacks have been doing it for years but Australia’s Super rugby coaches have finally decided to share information for the benefit of their own teams and the Wallabies.
THEIR first taste of 10-a-side rugby was an enjoyable one, but flanker Jordy Reid says it will be all business for the Melbourne Rebels on Sunday as they attempt to make the quarterfinals in Brisbane.
JAPANESE side Panasonic Wild Knights posted an upset win over the Tahs while the Rebels beat Chiefs on a mixed day for Aussie sides at the Brisbane Tens.
WHILE he suggests the modified game will be “a bit of fun”, Melbourne Rebels star Reece Hodge insists his team is taking the inaugural rugby 10s event deadly seriously.
MELBOURNE Rebels have suffered a devastating pre-season blow with the long-term loss of Irish recruit Tom Sexton.
FREE of injury and excited over Melbourne’s potential, Scott Higginbotham is poised to be installed as Rebels’ captain.
WHEN Tom English was recruited to the Rebels a medical issue was kept secret from the youngster – and his new club.
SCOTT Higginbotham is confident Melbourne Rebels can cover the loss of troubled star duo Kurtley Beale and James O’Connor.
THE Rebels will face NSW – and their former star Kurtley Beale – in the club’s first competitive outing under new coach Tony McGahan.
POWER-running backrower Scott Higginbotham will be fit for a Wallaby tour SOS if Australia’s thin backrow stocks are ravaged any further.
REBELS coach Tony McGahan has defended the club’s decision to cut James O’Connor, citing the overall welfare of the franchise as justification.
MELBOURNE Rebels are daring to go where AFL won’t by staging a Super Rugby match on Good Friday.
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