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Rebels routed by clinical Waratahs

Dean Mumm scores for the Waratahs against Melbourne Rebels

Melbourne Rebels’ miserable Super Rugby season continued as they suffered a thumping 50-23 defeat to the Waratahs in Sydney and lost stand-in skipper Reece Hodge to a head injury.

Amid continued uncertainty over their future in the competition, the Rebels have managed just one win in 2017 and their hopes of claiming a second were hit inside two minutes on Sunday as Hodge hurt himself tackling Israel Folau and was forced off on a stretcher.

Although Melbourne’s attack posed a threat in Hodge’s absence, they were out-scored eight tries to three as the Waratahs claimed a welcome victory and a bonus point to move second in the Australian Conference.

After Nick Phipps’ early score, Dean Mumm, Ned Hanigan and Folau all crossed for the Waratahs in a 10-minute period of dominance before the interval that earned a 24-11 lead.

Prior to that, the Rebels had held a slender advantage, thanks chiefly to Amanaki Mafi going over after a string of penalties had seen Silatolu Latu yellow carded.

When the Tahs were reduced to 14 men again early in the second half, Bernard Foley heading to the sin bin for an intentional knock-on inside his own 22, Melbourne again capitalised immediately through Jonah Placid.

Although Folau claimed his second try soon after, Placid rounded off a swift counter-attack on the hour to again get the Rebels within one score.

Yet it was the Tahs who finished much the stronger, Michael Hooper touching down at the end of an eye-catching move before late tries from Damien Fitzpatrick and Bryce Hegarty brought up the hosts’ half-century.

 

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Bok rule-benders are changing the game. They deserve respect

I support playing rugby in the spirit of the game, I detest mauls but respect it as a valid and interesting exception to the obstruction laws, it's requiring though less penalty options against the defenders with collapsing penalties only for blatant intent.


I detest all the scrum penalties dished out to teams deep inside their own half and think it should be play on if the ball is playable from a scrum if it collapsed rather than a penalty.


I detest silly antics like ‘lineouts’ in the middle of the field and intentional kickoffs to offside players. That to me is disrespectful of our amazing sport.


I support policing the offside laws intensely to ensure so called rush defence isn't simply offside.


I support penalizing all players leaving their feet at the ruck, players flying in and flopping onto the pile to seal off the ball.


I detest the current situation where defenders put their hands on the ball and are then warned, it should be a penalty then yellow.


Penalizing players coming into the ruck from the side and taking out defenders.


I support wingers and fullbacks scoring most of the tries.


I support any team that plays their rugby positively and not cynical slowdowns.


I see players like DuPont, Arendse, Will Jordan, French outside backs with blistering pace and want those players to have the time and space to be superstars.


I want teams that field eight forwards on the bench to be well beaten by teams that field five.


Midfielders I want more Moodies and less Allende battering rams.


Libbok and Pollard I respect both types of first five but would pick Pollard in a world cup final.


I want penalties to be reduced to two points and tries increased to six, except maul tries, they should be reduced to four points.

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