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Melbourne Rebels to welcome back Will Genia and Adam Coleman


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FRONTLINE Wallabies Will Genia and Adam Coleman may both be reinforcements for the Melbourne Rebels’ high-stakes visit to Dunedin on Saturday to fight for a play-offs spot.

Coach Dave Wessels is quietly optimistic that key halfback Genia (broken arm) and influential lock Coleman (adductor muscle) will pass fitness assessments on Monday so they can play a role against the Highlanders in the final round of Super Rugby.

The Rebels and South Africa’s Sharks are vying for the eighth and final position in the play-offs but it won’t be a contest at all if the Rebels take their chances as poorly as they did against the Queensland Reds in Brisbane on Friday night.

The Rebels stumbled 37-23 but the margin gave no reflection of how big an opportunity there was midway through the second half with the scores at 24-23 and the Reds down to 14 men with centre Duncan Paia’aua in the sinbin.

The Rebels could not score a point in the 10 minutes when the Reds were undermanned because two clear try chances were bombed

The Reds’ bulldozing scrum supremacy also got into the heads of the Melbourne players because the home side generated a penalty try and another try directly from their ascendancy there.

“The things we’ll regret are the charge-down try, a penalty try and two or three clean linebreaks where we didn’t get the final pass away for whatever reason. Those moments make it a different game,” Wessels said.

“We are still very much in with a shout but the reality is to make the play-offs we have to go away to New Zealand and win.

“It’s been done before (as recently as the Rebels’ droughtbreaking win in Auckland in June). We’ve got to get our heads around it and get up for it this week.”

The Highlanders won’t assert more scrum pressure than the Reds and giant tighthead prop Taniela Tupou, who were so dominant in this facet that Rebels prop Tetera Faulkner was sin-binned for collapsing just before a try was conceded on halftime.

“I thought we were the better team in a lot of the other parts of the game but we let that part of the game (at the scrum) emotionally get to us which is exactly what they wanted. Credit to the Reds,” Wessels said.

He could still smile: “Taniela is a pretty impressive guy and I look forward to welcoming him to (the) Melbourne (ranks) one day.”

Replacement Rebels hooker Nathan Charles is unlikely to make it to Dunedin after being knocked out when getting his head into the wrong place trying to tackle a charging Tupou in the second half.

Wessels said Genia and Coleman returning would only make a difference if the Rebels played far smarter.

“Certainly, we feel we can beat the Highlanders if we play to our best but we need to figure out why we didn’t do that in Brisbane,” Wessels said.

“I think we tried to play around them rather than going through them … we tried the cute stuff before we’d done the hard stuff.”

Wessels was scolding like a father rather than ripping shreds off his team like a demented, losing World Cup football coach in Russia.

“I sometimes say to (captain) Tom (English) when my daughter’s naughty, it’s not like I don’t love her,” Wessels said of a comparison with the Rebels he has nurtured up the Super Rugby table.

“She’s a good kid but she’s being naughty at that time. When we play badly I don’t think we are a bad team.”

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