User:Comes.amanuensis/sandbox2 - Rebels rewrite

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2011 Inaugural squad[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.

Player Position Union
Laurie Weeks (Qld Reds) Prop Australia Australia[1]
Rodney Blake (Bayonne) Prop Australia Australia[2][3]
Nic Henderson (Western Force) Prop Australia Australia[4][5]
Greg Somerville (Gloucester) Prop New Zealand New Zealand[6][7]
Adam Freier (NSW Waratahs) Hooker Australia Australia[8]
Ged Robinson (Wellington Lions) Hooker New Zealand New Zealand[9][10][11]
Heath Tessman (NSW Waratahs) Hooker Australia Australia[12][13][14]
Adam Byrnes (Qld Reds) Lock Australia Australia[15]
Kevin O'Neill (Chiefs) Lock New Zealand New Zealand[4][16]
Alistair Campbell (Montpellier) Lock Australia Australia[12][13][14]
Hugh Pyle Lock Australia Australia(Brumbies Academy)[17]
Luke Jones (Western Force) Lock Australia Australia[18]
Hoani MacDonald (Newport Gwent Dragons) Lock New Zealand New Zealand[6][7]
Tom Chamberlain (Auckland Blues) Flanker New Zealand New Zealand[19]
Jarrod Saffy (St George Illawarra Dragons) Flanker Australia Australia[20]
Michael Lipman (Warringah) Flanker England England[21][22][23][24]
Gareth Delve (Gloucester) Number 8 Wales Wales[25]
Tim Davidson (Leeds Carnegie) Number 8 Australia Australia[26][27]
Player Position Union
Sam Cordingley Scrum-half Australia Australia (FC Grenoble)[27]
Richard Kingi (Qld Reds)[28] Scrum-half Australia Australia
Nicholas Phipps Scrum-half Australia Australia (Sydney University)[17]
Danny Cipriani Fly-half England England (London Wasps)[4][29][30][31]
James Hilgendorf (Western Force)[12][13][14][32] Fly-half Australia Australia
Stirling Mortlock (ACT Brumbies)[33][34][5] Centre Australia Australia
Lachie Mitchell (London Wasps)[35] Centre Australia Australia
Afusipa Taumoepeau Centre Australia Australia (ACT Brumbies)[36]
Julian Huxley Centre Australia Australia (ACT Brumbies)[4][37][38][39][40]
JP du Plessis Centre South Africa South Africa (Sydney Roosters)[17][41]
Peter Betham (NSW Waratahs) Wing Australia Australia[27][42]
Cooper Vuna (Newcastle Knights) Wing New Zealand New Zealand[21][23][43][44][45]
Mark Gerrard (NTT Communications (Kanto)) Fullback Australia Australia[2][22]
Luke Rooney (RC Toulon) Fullback Australia Australia[46][47][48]

Staff & Coaching Team[edit]

General Manager Rugby Ops - Danny Corcoran[49]
Head Coach - Rod Macqueen[5][50][51]
Assistant Coach - Damian Hill[52]
Skills Coach - Nathan Grey[53]
Assistant Coach - Mark Bakewell[54]
Video Analyst - Ben Darwin[55]
High Performance Manager - Troy Thomson[56][57]
Strength and Conditioning - Mark Andrews[57]

Supporters[edit]

In April 2009, Neville Howard and Gavin Norman created an independent supporter group to grow awareness of the bid at a grassroots level. The group organized via popular social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter. They currently have 3,100 Facebook fans[58] and 210 twitter followers.[59]

After the license was awarded to Australia and subsequently Melbourne, Victoria, the group has now become the Rebel Army.[60]

Stadium[edit]

AAMI Park
Eastern Stand

Rebels' training and administration will be based in Carlton North, in specially upgraded facilities at Princes Park stadium, which also hosts the Carlton Football Club.[61][62]

The Rebels will play all eight home games at AAMI Park on Friday nights at 7:40pm, during their inaugural season.[63] The stadium had been conceived in the previously unsuccessful Victorian bids for a Super rugby team.[64] It was designed by Cox Architects (Sydney), with input from Waratah and former Wallaby prop Al Baxter.[65] AAMI Park was officially opened 8 May 2010 with a rugby league test between Australia and New Zealand[66] which drew 29,442 spectators.[67] The Rebels' co-tenants will be Melbourne Victory (soccer), Melbourne Heart (soccer) and Melbourne Storm (rugby league). A recent Melbourne Victory testimonial game drew a crowd of 5,000 (May 14, 2010).[68][69]

Logo and colours[edit]

2011 season[edit]

The 2011 Super Rugby season kicks off 18 February 2011. The Rebels' fist competition match is against the Waratahs (NSW) at AAMI Park. But first there's a pre-season game against the Crusaders (New Zealand), 5 February 2011, also at AAMI Park.[70]

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