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'Next stop London' - Aussie Super Rugby player drops major hint over future
By Josh Raisey
Former Melbourne Rebels centre Billy Meakes has dropped a hint that the next destination in his career could be in England.
The 29-year-old’s contract with the Rebels expired this year, and he has recently been linked with London Irish following a spate of injuries at the club as they prepare for the new Gallagher Premiership season set to begin in November.
Midfielders Matt Williams and Terrence Hepetema will be missing for the start of London Irish’s new era at the Brentford Community Stadium after sustaining injuries in September.
Hepetema could return by December from a broken wrist, but Williams’ anterior cruciate injury will leave him sidelined for much longer. Elsewhere in the backline, Waisake Naholo is recovering from knee surgery.
Amid this crisis, Meakes shared this message on Instagram from Melbourne Airport on Monday:
“Whirlwind few days... It’s so hard saying goodbye to the ones you love, but sometimes opportunities arise that you can’t turn down. So grateful to play rugby the sport I love and for what it provides me.
“Next stop ~ London.”
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Look there are a few unarguable facts here that are very clear. SARU was close to bankruptcy with SR, bailed out by the Lions and they need the URC and EPCR. Inclusion of SA teams in URC has been a great for for ALL concerned, from a rugby perspective and financially, moreover there is massive growth yet to come. The GP is in financial trouble and this will be the catalyst for EPCR change to further cement the Boks.
If this all plays out with even greater rewards for the urc AND the Top14 & GP via EPCR, the 6N will become 7N. Nz and Aus NEED to get their version firing with Japan & the PI’s, otherwise they will find themselves increasingly regressing…
Go to commentsPerofeta came back and was available for the eoyt right? Or was that why Love was in the squad (but got injured in the last week)?
It was such a frustrating year. Perofeta looked a service stop gap until Jordan was fit, but then got injured. Plummer was selected because of Pero's injury and dmac shat the bed in the second half in Australia but Clarke (?) got himself binned at the 65 min mark so Plummer couldn't come on (at least with the risk adverse Razors thinking) when he was planned to.
So many other exciting opportunities that could have happened without injuries, but then theyre probably balanced by knowing Sititi probably wouldn't have been given a chance without multiple injuries happened.
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