Rebels (9) 25 / Brumbies (16) 24 (Final Score)
The Melbourne Rebels hosted the Brumbies at AAMI Park, Melbourne at 10:40 SA Time (19:40 AEDT). This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1 & CSN on TV in SA.
The Rebels bounced back from a horrible start in Week 1 to rack up their first ever win. They will still be concerned that they had very little possession though and the Brumbies will be kicking themselves for not converting so many chances in the Rebels 22m area into solid points.
Scorers:
Rebels: 6 Penalties & 1 Conversion Danny Cipriani, 1 Try Stirling Mortlock
Brumbies: 3 Penalties & 1 Conversion & 1 Drop Goal Matt Giteau, 1 Try Pat McCabe, 1 Try Henry Speight
Teams:
Rebels: 15 Mark Gerrard, 14 Lachlan Mitchell, 13 Stirling Mortlock (captain), 12 Julian Huxley, 11 Cooper Vuna, 10 Danny Cipriani, 9 Nick Phipps, 8 Gareth Delve, 7 Michael Lipman, 6 Jarrod Saffy, 5 Kevin O’Neill, 4 Adam Byrnes, 3 Greg Somerville, 2 Ged Robinson, 1 Nic Henderson.
Replacements: 16 Heath Tessman, 17 Laurie Weeks, 18 Alister Campbell, 19 Tom Chamberlain, 20 Richard Kingi, 21 Afusipa Taumoepeau, 22 Luke Rooney.
Brumbies: 15 Pat McCabe, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 12 Robbie Coleman, 11 Francis Fainifo, 10 Matt Giteau (captain),9 Josh Valentine, 8 Ita Vaea, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Mitch Chapman, 5 Mark Chisholm, 4 Ben Hand, 3 Dan Palmer, 2 Steve Moore, 1 Ben Alexander.
Replacements: 16 Huia Edmonds, 17 Salesi Ma’afu, 18 Peter Kimlin, 19 Colby Faingaa, 20 Patrick Phibbs, 21 Matt Toomua, 22 Andrew Smith.
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa)
Assistant referees: James Leckie (Australia), Stephen Hill (Australia)
TMO: George Ayoub (Australia)
Lemoenetyd
Kaplan so bloody slow with his scrum call sequence….. eishhh man
#59 Puma the kiwis have been pathetic to say the least in the past year……actually very sad as they really were a good competitive team not so long ago
Back just now… must just go reset my Pool Time switch… it comes on too late at night….
Dan soek ek net rowers en skelms…. flok!
@ grootblousmile:
Lost all his mojo when he shaved his head!
@ Tripples:62 – They were a very good odi side. Not sure what has happened.
Really looking forward to our game against India and England. Both should be great.
65@ Puma:
Ama-Blomme-Blomme are in a really tough Group.
Waa’s Pampierperd…. kom gesels Kwagga Robbertse… tjommie
Hallooooo GBS and the rest.
GB this whole call sequence at scrum time is f-up. Would it not be better to take out the ‘pause’ bit seeing the guys are hitting just as the ref calls it. By the time he gets to ‘engaged’ scrum is already formed
Hiers ek nou my ou!!!!!!
Bangladesh 80/3 (13.6 ov)
Ireland
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat
Here Ireland is giving them a run for their money
More superbul. Loop dinge mooi daar in jou geweste?
68@ KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
Ja man… ek kak elke keer in my broek as die refs die skrum so rondflok
2nd Half on
@ KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
Dit gaan goed hier dankie
en jou kant ook ne?
Penalty for Brumbies.
Considering the scrums… maybe it should go something like “Crouch”, “Touch & Pause” (One command), followed by a standarised “Engage” (time wise)
Rebels lyk baie meer lus vir rugby die week. Laas week n moeeeerse rude awakening gehad.
Free kick to Rebels from a scrum, near their line
Nee wat Super sommer skitterend. Werk my gat af en die jonge kwaggatjie hou vir ons lekker besig.
Hey ek moet katrol. Groete van huis tot huis.
78@ KWAGGA ROBERTSE:
Stuur vir ons bietjie ‘n nuwe kiekie van die Pampier Pajama-dril Perdjie, man!
Penalty Rebels and Cipriani slots it.
Brumbies 16 / 12
Cipriani takes a big knock…. man down
Argggg, Cipriani was acting… was a simple push… not even hard
Bangladesh 89/4 (16.4 ov)
Cipriani attemts a penalty to goal… over
Brumbies 16 / 15
Brumbies speel maar koekerig, ek het gedog hulle sou hierdie lot mors
Brumbies threatening the Rebels line often, just not finishing….
This time Giteau knocks in the tackle
Drop Goal by Giteau
Brumbies 19 / 15
Nog n knock deur die bleddie simpel Brumbies, ek is ver uit met my pick
Nee jinne Kaplan…. scrum again…. this time he hurries the “Engage”
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