Secret Rebels merger plan exposed
Explosive leaked documents reveal there were secret plans for the Melbourne Rebels to join forces with another club months before it collapsed.
Explosive leaked documents reveal there were secret plans for the Melbourne Rebels to join forces with another club months before it collapsed.
The crisis at Rugby Australia has deepened over who should pay the Melbourne Rebels’ $10 million tax debt, and what happens to the club’s future.
The Melbourne Rebels’ very existence is under threat as financial problems plague the Super Rugby club. JAMIE PANDARAM has the details.
They are the giants of Australian rugby ready to represent the Wallabies on the game’s grandest stage, but to the local clubs and schools that nurtured them, they are so much more.
Watching funerals on zoom and packing up kids about to start school for a long sitting on the road. Playing rugby is easy, but being a rugby player at the moment is not.
The form of Queensland’s backline means former Melbourne Storm winger Suliasi Vunivalu will have to be content with a spot among the reserves on Friday night.
Suliasi Vunivalu is again available for Queensland selection, but he might find it hard to secure a starting berth.
He played an important role in the Brumbies winning the Super Rugby AU final, but Rebels-bound Joe Powell was still caught off guard in being named in an extended Wallabies squad.
New Wallabies squad member Hunter Paisami won’t mind sitting on the bench for the Reds if it leads to a Queensland Super Rugby AU title.
Jock Campbell was mainly a Second XV player at school but there is no longer any doubting the Queensland Reds fullback is a first-class talent.
They’ve lived for years with their very existence under threat. Rumours of internal division were rife. But here they are, in a first ever finals series. How Melbourne Rebels turned adversity and survival in to success.
He finds it hard to believe, but Queensland Reds flanker Fraser McReight is set to be picked for the Wallabies.
Queensland coach Brad Thorn made a habit of winning titles in a stellar playing career with a ‘no regrets’ mentality.
Reds prop Ruan Smith is being kept out of Queensland’s Ballymore bubble while he awaits results of a COVID-19 test.
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