Rebels vs Waratahs
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Rebels
Dane Haylett-Petty (c), Jack Maddocks, Reece Hodge, Matt Toomua, Marika Koroibete, Quade Cooper, Will Genia, Isi Naisarani, Richard Hardwick, Luke Jones, Adam Coleman, Matt Philip, Jermaine Ainsley, Anaru Rangi, Tetera Faulkner
Reserves: Hugh Roach, Matt Gibbon, Sam Talakai, Ross Haylett-Petty, Angus Cottrell, Michael Ruru, Billy Meakes, Tom English
Waratahs
Kurtley Beale, Alex Newsome, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Lalakai Foketi, Curtis Rona, Bernard Foley, Nick Phipps, Michael Wells, Michael Hooper (c), Lachlan Swinton, Rob Simmons, Ned Hanigan, Sekope Kepu, Damien Fitzpatrick, Tom Robertson
Reserves: Andrew Tuala, Harry Johnson-Holmes, Chris Talakai, Jed Holloway, Will Miller, Jake Gordon, Mack Mason, Cameron Clark
Bad news for Hunt. His injury will keep him out for 12 weeks.
Surprised to see Genia named after the head knock
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Let's be honest. This fixture is to see whether the Rebels can catch the Brumbies.
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@antipodean therefore the only logical outcome is to have the Waratahs win 13-5 in a dour grind fest that sets the game back 10 years
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@Nevorian said in Rebels vs Waratahs:
anyone have any comments on the Curtis Rona "tackle" - was surprised he didn't at least get a yellow.
I think the only thing that saved him was the person he was racing across to cover tackle stepped back inside into him. Had he been given a YC, I see no reason why it shouldn't have been a PT as well.
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Yikes, lucky they don't have the new guidelines in place - that's a 'tucked' arm shoulder charge, high impact, with indirect contact to the head (it's head to head though). Would be at least a YC under the new guidelines and actually should have been a yellow anyway.
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@antipodean said in Rebels vs Waratahs:
@Nevorian said in Rebels vs Waratahs:
anyone have any comments on the Curtis Rona "tackle" - was surprised he didn't at least get a yellow.
I think the only thing that saved him was the person he was racing across to cover tackle stepped back inside into him. Had he been given a YC, I see no reason why it shouldn't have been a PT as well.
possibly, always looked like he was going to tackle high no matter what even if Koroibete had not changed direction, at no stage did he look like he had his arms ready to make a clean tackle which would have put Koribete into touch anyway. Couldn't believe ref was just going to award scrum for knock on.
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As all above have stated, a joke of a (non) decision.
YC and PT IMHO
