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Oct 7

Melbourne Rebels Super 15: Recruitment

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Brent Cockbain    Melbourne's John Wellborn?

Brent Cockbain Melbourne's John Wellborn?

The good news for the proposed Melbourne Rebels Super 15 franchise is that the two main parties, VicSuper15 and the VRU Rebels, have formed a partnership and the third is now sniffing around looking for an opportunity to participate.

This is now happening under the auspices of the ARU’s co-opted financial guru, John Wylie. That might mean we now have a viable option or indeed, a going concern.

Once it comes to pass and we’re potentially handed the baton by SANZAR, they’ll be establishing the structure that will deliver the stuff that we’re really interested in like who’ll be the coach; which players will they recruit; how competitive will they be; what will they be called and what will their playing strip look like? Read more »

Jun 7

Brock James cracks the tonne

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Arise Sir Brock

Arise Sir Brock

When Brock James left the Western Force to head to France to play for Clermont in the Top 14, it caused barely a ripple in Australian rugby circles. In the pre-Gits era of the Force, James, Scott Daruda and James Hilgendorf, had all been used as fly-halves without much success.

Leaving Australia as a failed Super 14 player at the age of 24, it was not expected that anymore would be heard of the former Sydney Uni/GPS (Brisbane) fly-half – but how times have changed. Read more »

Feb 10

John O’Neil turns his back on Melbourne

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As part of his annual SANZAR pot-stirring, ARU Commander-in-chief John O’Neil gave flight to his favourite thought bubble, that of expansion.

“People talk endlessly about Argentina but I keep saying to the IRB, hang on, closer to home there is a country called Japan – which in economic and rugby terms is unbelievably valuable” The Big O told Fox sports….but hang on – what about a country even closer to Australia – Aust-fucken-tralia!! Read more »

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