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Match Details
Week Six
RaboDirect Rebels V Hurricanes
Friday 25 March, 7.40pm
AAMI Park
The RaboDirect Rebels have announced the following team for this Friday night’s clash against the Hurricanes.
1 Rodney Blake
2 Ged Robinson
3 Greg Somerville
4 Alister Campbell
5 Hugh Pyle
6 Jarrod Saffy
7 Michael Lipman
8 Gareth Delve (vc)
9 Nick Phipps
10 Danny Cipriani
11 Cooper Vuna
12 Stirling Mortlock (c)
13 Lachlan Mitchell
14 Luke Rooney
15 Richard Kingi
16 Luke Holmes
17 Laurie Weeks
18 Adam Byrnes
19 Tim Davidson
20 JP Du Plessis
21 Peter Betham
22 Afusipa Taumoepeau
This week Richard Kingi gets his first start at fullback, replacing the injured Julian Huxley and South African JP Du Plessis makes his debut in the 22.
Rodney Blake will start at loosehead prop, Hugh Pyle moves into the second row and Adam Byrnes will start on the bench.
Michael Lipman returns from injury at open side flanker, replacing Tom Chamberlain.
Luke Rooney will line up on the wing, with Afusipa Taumoepeau moving to the bench.
Both Heath Tessmann and Nic Henderson will be rested this week.
Please note that the following players were unavailable for selection due to injury.
Sam Cordingley (hip)
James Hilgendorf (ac joint)
Hoani Macdonald (hand)
Mark Gerrard (ac joint)
Kevin O’Neill (calf)
Julian Huxley (groin)
80 Minutes, 15 Positions, No Protection, Wanna Ruck?
Ruck Me, Maul Me, Make Me Scrum!
Education is Important, but Rugby is Importanter!
Nice to see Luke Holmes getting a run, while he did not quite make it here he was a nice person, glad to see him getting a run.
Simon Cron: “People talk about winning and losing all the time and they are critical, but there’s a process to get into and it’s the ability to stay present, do your job and execute skills under pressure.”
Just looking, Luke was the 33rd (and last '06) cap for the Force.
Can't find a comparative table for the Rebels, but he might come in a bit sooner than that this time. Wish him well as Tazz says.
Interesting to compare the seasons, though makes things a bit harder with the different formats without having the actual records at hand...maybe a job for tonight...
Unloved List: * "Rested"
Nic Henderson*
Heath Tessmann *
Adam Freier
Peter Betham
Rodney Blake
Tom Chamberlain
Luke Jones
"Bloody oath we did!"
Nathan Sharpe, Legend.
Ill bet the rebels are happy to see lipman back. whoever wore his jersey last week was dreadful.
Julian huxley the last couple weeks reminds me of his time at the reds when everyone in QLD hated him.
Rebels played inspired rugby toinight. Reminded me of the brumbies during their heyday... Great work by Mortlock, Phipps, Saffy, Vuna and Campbell... Fantastic open running teamwork based rugby
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lets hope they rest on their laurals for next week's game
our defence needs to be on song
Dont think it'll be too much of an ask. Hurricanes were at 6s and 7s no structure and panicked in defence.. Everything we havent been in the last 4 rounds
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The rebels had me worried in the first 20minutes...
Great win for the team!
I was impressed with the turnout over 16,000 tonight and that was with afl next door at the mcg.
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It was pretty incredible to see. For 20 minutes it seemed like every time the Hurricanes went wide they would score and for the next 60 they couldn't string 2 phases together without screwing up somehow.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
At the 20 minute mark I was tempted to post in the 'who will put 50 on the rebels' thread.
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Yeah, crikey, I got the margin right, but the winner wrong!
Regardless of the result against the Stormers later today, we will have to be on our game against the Rebels. No team can be underestimated in this comp. Woody does his homework on all our opponents in depth, and he'll have to against Melbourne.
It looks like Cipriani kicks a lot, so we will have to look at how we counterattack effectively - kicking or running it back. Positional play of our back 3 will be crucial.
Their forwards, and esp their loose trio, played really well - will be a great contest at the breakdown. I was impressed with the way they offloaded to maintain continuity - we will have to make our tackles count to minimise offloads.
They deliberately played Stirlo at 12 to counter Nonu - it worked I think - but he's likely to be back at 13 next week, up against Cullet.
We may have the edge in the setpiece, esp at lineout time, and our back three are, I think, better. But interesting matchups all over the park....
Inspirational there were some sore bodies there.... EWF will have to be at their best....