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I just watched Sunday’s episode of Offsiders on the ABC. It was good to see Storm prop Christian Welch, who was a panellist, give a shout out to the Melbourne Rebels being in 4th place amidst all the uncertainty.
Unfortunately, the next story after that was a 20-odd minute delay in the A League...
Congratulations to Carter Gordon who has moved to equal 6th on Rebels points scorers list with Mike Harris on 133 points.
Last night Gordon moved past Danny Cipriani 122 points, Quade Cooper 116 points and Marika Koroibete 115 points.
Gordon has also joined Dane Haylett-Petty in equal 9th on...
It is interesting that we are talking about other sports. Molman mentioned netball.
Netball has large participation numbers but have struggled to turn that into fans. There is a cross section of social netballers who don't even know Super Netball exists. There has been to a large extent poor...
Molman, I wouldn't be mentioning hockey in the same breathe as the NBL. The Hockey One League is telecast on 7plus.
But I wouldn't have thought it was anywhere near the popularity of the NBL.
I can't comment on participation numbers.
We don't show enough patience in attack either. It seems like if we have the ball for 4 or 5 phases and haven't broken the line, the instinct is to kick.
For 14 years Rebels fans have had to put up with consistent basic errors. Dropping kick off's after scoring tries, not being able to catch and pass and kicking balls dead instead of putting the ball into touch 5 metres out.