Rebels’ Wilkin longing for future regardless of Tremendous Rugby exit
Melbourne Rebels ahead Brad Wilkin believes his group can construct on this 12 months's performances within the Tremendous Rugby Pacific after their present season got here to an finish with Friday's 33-17 loss to the ACT Brumbies.
The Rebels had harboured hopes of compressing into the playoffs after the Auckland Blues' victory over the Otago Highlanders however the defeat for Kevin Foote's injury-hit aspect introduced a near a irritating marketing campaign.
"We've received a platform there now the place we all know how we wish to play, what that appears like and what it takes to win," mentioned Wilkin.
"There's some classes that we realized this 12 months and what we have to do higher to get these wins. It's a studying expertise for lots of men.
"The group could be very robust and we'll hold working in the direction of subsequent 12 months and I believe we'll be lots higher for it."
The loss to the Brumbies was the Rebels' tenth defeat from 14 video games this season and head coach Foote was sad that his group had been unable to maintain their Tremendous Rugby marketing campaign alive for one more week.
"It's very disappointing," he mentioned. "It's not the place we set our objectives to be and I believe we performed some actually good rugby this 12 months.
"It's a very nice group to educate and I really feel actually disillusioned that it's come to an finish.
"Typically you get to those factors of the season and the group's a bit drifted or they're not all dedicated, however I by no means felt like that with this group."
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