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N° 275, Couverture de Kelly Freas " The Gulf Between" N° 274, Couverture de Miller "What Thin Partitions" What Thin Partitions N° 273, Couverture de van Dongen "Sam Hall" N° 272, Couverture de Miller "Enough Rope" Enough Rope N° 270, Couverture de Baer "Interplanetary Industrial Design" Medicine Show N° 269, Couverture de Van Dongen "Mission of Gravity" N° 267, Couverture de van Dongen "Null-ABC" You haven’t had to look hard for reasons not to watch Australian sides in the last season or two, but now, just maybe, the Rebels are already giving us reasons to tune back in.- N° 266, Couverture de Pawelka "UN-Man" Un-Man No other Australian side can boast the speed and intensity the Rebels are already playing with, just three games in. Speed and intensity created that 67th minute play for the Rebels on Friday, and it showed us everything we need to know about the Aussie conference currently. The Jaguares found it Sunday morning, but mainly because the Waratahs handed it to them on a platter. The Lions have it, and the Blues showed it in snaring their late win at Ellis Park. Speed and intensity are the goals in 2018. They won 33-10 on Friday night despite playing most of the second half at their end of the ground, and they only had 42 per cent of possession for the game. They don’t need ball to find points, and don’t necessarily need territory. The result is the same though: just when we’ve been crying out for Australian sides to ‘be more like the Kiwis’, the Rebels look the most like a side capable of that.Īlong with the defensive pressure though, the Rebels’ speed and intensity is a clear point of difference among the Australian teams. Technical advances, whatever their benefits, do not fundamentally change that bleak reality. More so than any demon, because it is a lack of mercy which stems from the fact that the universe simply does not care. Other times, like Koroibete’s hit on Hawera, the opportunity came from pure and simple hard work. The Gulf Between Editor's note: The backdrop to all of Godwin's stories is a universe which is cold and pitiless. Sometimes, like Hardwick’s turnover, sheer luck played a part. Throughout the game, when nothing was happening for the Brumbies, the Rebels were able to create opportunities for themselves all from their defensive pressure. Only four minutes later, Hardwick picked up a loose ball from the back of a Brumbies ruck that had fallen apart and scooted away before finding Michael Ruru. By my count, less than twenty seconds from turnover caused by their defence in their own half to Maddocks scoring at the other end.Īmanaki Mafi (Photo by Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images)Ĭo-commentator, former Brumbies and Wallabies centre Pat McCabe, elaborated and added that the Rebels’ line speed and defensive pressure meant the Rebels were, “playing very much like a New Zealand side”.Īnd that wasn’t the last time they did it, either. It took another six seconds for Maddocks to cross halfway in space, and another ten seconds had passed by the time he got the ball down. There isn’t a Brumby in sight.įrom Lucas’ pass to Talakai’s pass off the ground to Haylett-Petty, seven seconds elapsed. But he’s not quite done, and casually runs it around to score behind the posts. Maddocks puts a bog-standard in-and-away on Lucas and runs to the try line to score. Maddocks is quickly over halfway and is off, not to encounter a Brumbies cover defender until Lucas intercepts his path on the Brumbies’ 22-metre line.
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Philip and Hodge remain on his inside, and I can count another six Rebels players trailing in midfield, and only four Brumbies, none of whom are anywhere near Maddocks. The ball bounced a metre in front of Philip, but then fortuitously up for Maddocks who is immediately looking up and eyeing off what to do next. Philip and Hodge are in motion, and Jack Maddocks is now on their outside. Mafi comes to one of the Arnold twins, but fires a no-look flick pass out the back before contact he has literally no idea where the ball has gone, or who is there to get it.
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There’s at least three other Rebels now presenting on either side as options and there’s really no Brumbies defenders in the frame. The ball finds Amanaki Mafi across the face of Richard Hardwick, and already Matt Philip and Hodge are calling for the ball.