Robinson snubs Rebels

Robinson snubs Rebels

3 Jun 2010

Benn Robinson has rejected a lucrative offer from the Melbourne Rebels and will stay with the Waratahs next season.

Robinson contract ended after the Super 14 and the Rebels were on hot pursuit for his signature. The Wallabies loosehead prop delayed contract extensions with the Tahs and it seemed he would go for lucrative move to Melbourne.

However, Robinson ended speculation on Thursday as he announced that he will remain in Sydney.

‘Whenever your contract is up you have a bit of a look at what is out there and obviously 2011 is a pretty big season, but at the end of the day in terms of footy there’s no where I’d rather be than at NSW,’ Robinson told smh.com.au.

‘This Waratahs team has a really strong culture and I think in 2010 we started to show a lot of belief in our game. That’s only going to improve next year with most of the squad staying on and I’m really looking forward to being a part of it.’

Robinson is currently sidelined with a broken arm and is only set to return during the Tri-Nations in July.

However, he knows he will have to earn a starting place as Ben Alexander and Ben Daley, who will feature for the Wallabies in the June Test series, are both fighting to be first choice this season.

‘I know now that when I come back there’s going to be guys in the Wallabies squad keen to keep me out and I’ll have to win back my place there,’ said Robinson.


12 Comments

  • 1.flanka: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:14 am

    best looesehead in the world right now

  • 2.grant10: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:16 am

    @flanka(flanka)-1: ja

    ask Smit.

  • 3.flanka: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:20 am

    @grant10(grant10)-2: he is to smit what warne was to cullinan

  • 4.WOLFMAN21: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:48 am

    @flanka(flanka)-3: A fat, mouthy idiot?

  • 5.WOLFMAN21: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:50 am

    If Donutdunning is out there, Nemani Nadolo is on the bench for the Fijians. I guess there goes his shot of playing for the Wallabies (unless it is a different one!)

  • 6.flanka: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:50 am

    @WOLFMAN21(WOLFMAN21)-4: i hated warne…but he made us look like idiots on a cricket pitch

  • 7.flanka: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:51 am

    this rebels team is just destabilizing australian rugby in my opinion, just so that they have another team wallowing in the bottom 5

  • 8.flanka: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 11:52 am

    and they have no true star signing…at least the force had giteau and sharpe to start with. this team is just a ragtag army of little boys and over the hill dads

  • 9.mshiniwami: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 12:24 pm

    @flanka(flanka)-1:

    Guthro Steenkamp will challenge Robinson’s status as “world’s best LH” this yr.He has been in awesome form.

    Only Andries Bekker played better rugby than Steenkamp in S14

    Best players in S14 2010-Top 5

    Andries Bekker
    Guthro Steenkamp
    Will Genia
    Quade Cooper
    Frans Louw/Drew Mitchell

  • 10.DonutDunning: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 12:29 pm

    Bit of overkill. Not sure what they were going to do with a 5th prop after already having signed Henderson, Shepherdson, Weeks and Somerville. What their squad is seriously lacking now is the same thing all the Aussie teams are – locks and centres. Good luck getting any of the other franchises letting those go.

    @WOLFMAN21(WOLFMAN21)-5: Yep on the bench for Fiji, then off to play for Bourgoin in the French league.
    That said, there could be as many Nemani Nadolos out there as there are Afeaki’s in Tonga (or Canberra! :) )

  • 11.flanka: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 13:19 pm

    @mshiniwami(mshiniwami)-9: Steenkamp’s been phenomenal….what sets Robinson apart though is his dominance at scrum-time. And he’s not really that big a man, just immensely strong with low centre of gravity and great technique. But Steenkamp’s improvement almost makes it look like he wasn’t trying the last two years (or maybe Beast replacing him as incumbent was the wakeup call he needed to up his game). Lets hope he can transfer his form to the test arena

  • 12.WOLFMAN21: Reply to this comment
    3 Jun 2010, 15:01 pm

    @DonutDunning(DonutDunning)-10: Or Botha’s in South Africa!

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