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I do understand where you’re coming from and without knowing all the behind the scenes machinations it’s hard to have too forceful a view. However according to the reports it’s not like these guys have said they don’t want to play Super outright - the report indicates a player/players have...

I really don’t understand takes like this, they signed to play super rugby for the Melbourne Rebels which was a decision they made as it clearly suited them. I don’t know about you but if my employer told me I had to move states to a place I didn’t want to go and had no legal basis to do so I’d...

The way it was worded on the pod by Atko was that the Reds are very much keen to have him

I listened to the Inside Line podcast this morning with Atko and Iain Payten- got to say this is one of the most informative podcasts going around if you’re interested in some of the behind the scenes movements in aus rugby. Their latest mail on rebels player movements - stressing that this info...

What do we think the attendance numbers will be around? Got my tickets yesterday and most of the bays running lengthwise along the field looked close to sold out. Had to get mine in an area around the posts. Pretty promising with 1.5 weeks to go..

Whilst there are a lot of debutants and it’s a young team etc there are also 5 super rugby captains in the match day 23 so it’s not like they won’t have some direction.

Plus Pollard and AAA in the forwards

Not a heap of club combinations but I’d argue there are a few important ones: Lolesio and T Wright on attack Paisami and Flook in the centres Faessler and L Wright as line out thrower & caller L Wright and McReight back row

That’d free up a good chunk of salary cap space. From memory he’s on around $600k or something like that?

Canhams just been confirmed in an article by Doran on The Roar this morning

Just read this, the rumours were true - https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/06/26/exclusive-ex-rebel-josh-canham-signs-new-deal-to-stay-in-australian-rugby/ What a great signing!

Genuine question, what’s the objection to Stiles? On the face of it he’d managed to build a pretty decent squad down there. I would have thought the Rebels financial issues come at CEO/Board level if that’s the issue. Am I missing something?

Will also be interesting if they try to fast track any of the rumoured new signings

Nice if you’ve got that sort of coin lying around. In other positive news, Nasaer has re-signed https://reds.rugby/news/josh-nasser-resigns-with-reds-through-2026-2024619

Maybe I’m drinking too much kool aid but really feels like they’re starting to build something special here. Great coaching team in place, back office in order/strong financials and seems like a lot of quality players want to be there if all the rebels mail is to be believed.

Love the idea but how could that possibly work? The Olympics is on in just over a month and the rugby league season runs until 6 October…

Sure he doesn’t have any French parents/grandparents?

Yeah would be a pretty stacked squad if all comes to pass. You’d think there’d be a fair bit of money tied up with vunivalu. It was also mentioned Petaia may not be sticking around too.

So a lot of it’s been covered on here but listening to this weeks Inside Line podcast and their mail on player movements - saying reds are looking good for Canham, LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto), Daugunu and solid interest in Lancaster

If RA wanted to do some good it’d be worthwhile all round for aus rugby to give the force salary cap discounts for bringing back aus qualified players from Europe and Japan. Think of all the quality Aus players playing overseas combined with a club that actually has the financial grunt to match...