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Recap: Rebels vs Reds | Super Rugby AU
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Follow all the action on the RugbyPass live blog from the Super Rugby AU clash between the Rebels and Reds at Brookvale Oval in New South Wales.
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Last week, the Reds broke an 11-match duck by besting the Waratahs in Queensland while the Rebels were handily dealt to by the Brumbies in Canberra.
The Rebels won both encounters between these two sides last year, including thrashing the home side 32-13 in Brisbane. Reds coach Brad Thorn has some of the best young talent in Australia on his books, however, and last week's result should give his young charges plenty of courage heading into tonight's match.
While it's a home game for the Rebels, the match is being played in New South Wales due to Victoria's ongoing battle with COVID-19.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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