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The Rebels will be out to turn around their spluttering form line when they travel halfway across the world to take on South Africa’s last-placed team, the Stormers in what is a desperation game. Join The Roar for live scores from 11:05pm (AEST).
Desperation shouldn’t even begin to describe tonight’s game for both sides, with the Rebels falling from grace at a rapid pace and the Stormers starting to fall a long way behind those in contention for the finals.
The Rebels were the breakout team at the start of the year, dominating the Australian conference as they shot to the top of the table, getting the better of their opponents with regularity and playing an exciting brand of rugby.
How the mighty have fallen though.
The Victorian club have lost three on the trot, and none of them pretty. They gave up 50 points to the Hurricanes, then were beaten at home by the Jaguares before going down to the Bulls in South Africa.
While the last of those games is understandable, giving up 50 points and losing to the Argentinian club certainly isn’t, with the Rebels squandering their good start to now sit behind the Waratahs in the Australian conference.
The Rebels form has been poor, but the Stormers haven’t hit their stride at all this season.
They sit last in the South African conference with just three wins from their nine games. While they aren’t out of finals contention yet, just five points behind the second-placed Bulls, victories need to start flowing if they hope to secure one of the wildcard spots into the finals.
That doesn’t look like happening for the Cape Town-based outfit though, with losses to the Bulls, Lions and Sharks leaving them in a bad rut of form heading into this game.
Prediction
This is going to be an interesting game. It’s hard to see the Rebels winning away from home, even if the Stormers have been in all sorts.
Stormers by 10.
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