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2011 Inaugural squad

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

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

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

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

2011 season

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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