Super Rugby Trial Rebels v Brumbies 23JAN20 Greenfield Park Albury 345pm

[Bobby Sands]

Rebs look good early. Great to see.

 

[Slim 293]

Looks like Murray Douglas with the first meat pie next to the posts.........

Rebels 0 - Brumbies 7

 

[Bobby Sands]

Kellaway has made a few errors, but looked lively.

 

[Dctarget]

Hopefully the Brumbies scrum is just that good or else the Rebels season will be very long.
DHP looks unexciting but safe as houses.
Young Brumbies flyhalf looks to be very promising.

 

[Slim 293]

I don't get tired of watching Valetini tackle players.........

 

[Dctarget]

Fkn cut Erasmus's hair, he got confused by all that open space.

 

[Slim 293]

For some reason Fainga'a is marking Koroibete out on the wing............

No surprises what eventuates there.........

Scores leveled 7 - 7 at half time.

 

[Dctarget]

Good to see Koroibete is starting 2020 off how he finished 2019.

 

[Jeeper]

How good is Koroibete

 

[Jeeper]

It was a good run from Kata until the turn over which led to the try.

 

[Rugbynutter39]

kata had a few good ivolvements in the game....wonder whether he could be a Nonu type 12 player though....hence like to see at some stage he get some game time at 12 to see what he could offer in that position,

 

[Rebels3]

Hopefully the Brumbies scrum is just that good or else the Rebels season will be very long.
DHP looks unexciting but safe as houses.
Young Brumbies flyhalf looks to be very promising.

The scrum is fine, Rebels didn’t lose a scrum or concede a penalty for the first 25mins (only a short arm for not putting ball in quickly) now have lost a few scrums because there is two LH on the field after Eloff went off and with Smith pulling out with an injury today the reserve TH will be covered by the reserve LH.

 

[Slim 293]

It was a good run from Kata until the turn over which led to the try.

Just watching the replay......... hopefully Gardner isn't this loose at the breakdown when the season begins.

 

[Rebels3]

Both teams have been pretty good.

 

[Slim 293]

Cusack was being held onto there, but gets penalised.........

 

[Dctarget]

Loving some of the work by the more unsung homegrown Rebels boys like Sa'aga and Leota. Both have been working hard and improve each season. Might not be Wallabies contenders but they're coming good.

EDIT: and one of those young Rebels huge men in the back 5 looks damaging.

 

[Slim 293]

Sio barges over..........

Rebels 7 - Brumbies 14

 

[Slim 293]

Didn't catch the player (no number - watching it with the video minimised and no audio)........

But a good bit of play from the Rebels, Samu rushes out of the line leaving a gap.

Should be 14 all in a moment.

 

[Slim 293]

Rebels yellow carded after a litany of cynical play............

The Rebels attack had looked better for the most part of the match, but some of the Brumbies reserves (and NRC regulars) showing their worth.

 

[Slim 293]

And with a man down Pulu touches down on the wing........

Samu came close after smashing it up off the back of another dominant Brumbies scrum.

Rebels 14 - Brumbies 19