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Herbert Moran (7)
Shame I can see Tony's narrow minded vision of attack being well offsetted by Damian's attacking flair
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Shame I can see Tony's narrow minded vision of attack being well offsetted by Damian's attacking flair
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Greg Davis (50)
The Courier Mail is reporting Liam Gill being keen to join the Rebels.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...ed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=cmailunion
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We've got the most over-stacked backrow in Australia. Out locks are flankers and we can't fit all of them on the team, let alone with a quality young player like Gill joining. McMahon is being forced to play out of position as it is.
We're losing Higgers next year, but I thought that swapping Timani back to 8 would be the logical step.
Who is off contract?
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...ed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=cmailunion
WFT?
We've got the most over-stacked backrow in Australia. Out locks are flankers and we can't fit all of them on the team, let alone with a quality young player like Gill joining. McMahon is being forced to play out of position as it is.
We're losing Higgers next year, but I thought that swapping Timani back to 8 would be the logical step.
Who is off contract?
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Steve Williams (59)
Colby Fainga'a can play 8 at a stretch.
He scored a hat trick playing there in a club rugby GF a few years back
He scored a hat trick playing there in a club rugby GF a few years back
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Greg Davis (50)
I'm not sure what the contract situation is for all but assuming they're all on-board for 2016 we'll have:
Fainga'a
Reid
Fuglistaller
Timani
McMahon
Samo*.
None of them are a 'natural' blindside, but that doesn't seem to be hurting us too much at the moment. There's a lot of talent there and on current form I guess Fug would be the obvious casualty of a Gill recruitment.
Fainga'a
Reid
Fuglistaller
Timani
McMahon
Samo*.
None of them are a 'natural' blindside, but that doesn't seem to be hurting us too much at the moment. There's a lot of talent there and on current form I guess Fug would be the obvious casualty of a Gill recruitment.
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Andrew Slack (58)
Never going to object to talent but we've got 4 Super Rugby quality opensides, 3 of which are contracted next season and the other is in the form of his life. Trying to get an 8, or a lock, or both, might be a better use of our money, unless we could negotiate a Cummins/Foley/McCalman type deal for Higgers.
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daz
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Agree to the general sentiment. Gill is a real talent, but unless someone is leaving that we don't know about, we have a plethora of flankers itching for game time already.
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Andrew Slack (58)
Backrowers vs Flankers. A 6/8 is what I'd like, not a 6/7. Otherwise don't matter.
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Michael Lynagh (62)
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Jason Little (69)
On this occasion Ash I would have to disagree. Timani will/would be a much stronger No 8 than Browning is atm or perhaps is likely to be. I thought he (Browning) was a standout at U20s but he hasn't really kicked on in the last couple of years, even allowing for injuries. Similar to a lot of Reds back rowers, I think he is just too small to make the big time.
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These backrower rumours don't make much sense, yes higgers is leaving but Melbourne still has a fair bit of depth and talent in these positions... If all the rumours play out then Melbourne is going to be quite overstocked on backrowers, which means they will be short in other positions.
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Andrew Slack (58)
Ultimately, we need at least a tighthead, a lock, a number 8 and a halfback to replace PAE, Neville, Higgenbotham and Burgess, in the squad if not the 23, with other direct replacements to come as players retire or move on. Any other talent will just be improving on what we already have.
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Peter Fenwicke (45)
The guy is 21. How about we let him develop in Super Rugby before we write the bloke off, considering he has acquired 11 caps since 2013.
Also, 190cm, 110kg - hardly 'small' by backrower standards.
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Peter Sullivan (51)
with regards to all the "too many" backrowers comments, it is just possible McMahon might have signalled his intention to join the 7's program for 2016, Reid is off contract (i think) and he also might have decided to move on, although i really, really hope not. and after all these are just rumours about Browning and Gill. What we really need is another centre to cover Ellison the year after. and to hang onto Hegarty, who once agin proved an admirable replacement on Friday night.
Fairly sure Sean is signed through to the end of 2017, so wouldn't that preclude him from joining the 7's team? Not sure how the can/will arrange for swap inn/outs if they have already signed, considering Bill's position on this.
Has anyone also considered Gill my be 'shopping' himself to Melbourne to re-negotiate a better deal with the Rebs. It's not unheard of to do so and I don't think it paints Liam's character in any negative way (not would I suggest this). I think we have a good stock of flankers and need to concentrate on the other key positions mentioned in the thread already before we target another one. Liam is a good talent that I think will stay loyal to the Reds in the immediate future.
Has anyone also considered Gill my be 'shopping' himself to Melbourne to re-negotiate a better deal with the Rebs. It's not unheard of to do so and I don't think it paints Liam's character in any negative way (not would I suggest this). I think we have a good stock of flankers and need to concentrate on the other key positions mentioned in the thread already before we target another one. Liam is a good talent that I think will stay loyal to the Reds in the immediate future.
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Jason Little (69)
But he seems to me to play a whole lot smaller than his stats.
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Peter Sullivan (51)
i was under the impression that a player could take a "sabbatical" in the 7's program for the Olympics.
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