Great loses it while interviewing cult hero prop

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Bloodied prop Matt Gibbon summed up the tone of the Melbourne Rebels, playing a cardinal relation in an upset triumph implicit the NSW Waratahs earlier delivering a hilarious interview.

As good arsenic fulfilling his halfway duties astatine AAMI Park, the likeable loosehead scored a memorable 2nd fractional effort as helium sold a dummy and divided a bemused Waratahs defence.

The 34-27 triumph was Melbourne's archetypal of the 2023 play having fto leads gaffe successful losses to the Western Force and Hurricanes.

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Rebels prop fools Waratahs defence

"Mate, that doesn't hap usually. As soon arsenic I did that small happening and saw no-one up of me, it was backmost similar I was astatine schoolhouse again," a delighted Gibbon told Stan Sport's Drew Mitchell.

"Chahoo-ing, throwing the shot successful the air, loving it."

A grinning Mitchell past apologised to the Wallabies front-rower.

"Sorry mate I'm laughing due to the fact that it's astir similar you've travel from the dentist. Your bottommost lip's not adjacent moving. That's wherefore you deterioration your mouthguards kids."

Waratahs replacement Taleni Seu galloped distant for an eye-catching precocious effort that astatine slightest gave NSW a bonus constituent afterTane Edmed converted from the sideline.

Both clubs are present 1-2.

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But it was the nighttime of the hosts arsenic the assemblage launched into a uncommon 'Rebels' chant.

"That'll springiness america content that we tin shingle up the contention a bit. They're a bully side, the Waratahs," Rebels skipper Brad Wilkin said.

Rebels backs Lachie Anderson and Reece Hodge starred successful the archetypal half, providing footwear effort assists for each different successful a see-sawing contest.

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The Rebels led 17-6 astatine halftime but NSW gained the pb astatine 1 signifier earlier the men from Melbourne kicked again.

"We yet enactment unneurotic a adjacent implicit performance," Rebels centre Stacey Ili said.

"Relief - the past mates of games we've been determination but conscionable couldn't get it."

Waratahs skipper Jake Gordon, not surprisingly, was precise disappointed but refused to blasted the precocious withdrawals of Max Jorgensen, Dave Porecki and Ned Hanigan.

"We're amended than that," Gordon said.

"We're truly disappointed, we're conscionable escaped astatine the moment. Loose astir the carry, escaped astir the breakdown, we invited their backrow implicit the shot each game, and they did a truly bully occupation of that.

"I was truly blessed with our archetypal 20 and disappointed we didn't travel distant with 2 tries there, and we struggled to travel backmost from that.

"We wanted to spell acceptable portion to acceptable piece, and we thought astir our lineout launches and maul, we were getting truly bully wage there, and astatine the commencement of the 2nd half, we wanted to play astatine the close extremity of the field. We conscionable gave them excessively galore invitations into our 22 precocious successful that 2nd half."

Both clubs present question to New Zealand successful circular 4 with the Rebels visiting the archetypal placed Chiefs and the Waratahs taking connected the Hurricanes.

Nanai-Seturo fires Chiefs to flying start

Meanwhile, flyhalf Damian McKenzie sent different reminder of his quality to the All Blacks selectors arsenic helium guided the Chiefs to a 28-7 triumph implicit the Highlanders and to a 3-0 commencement successful Super Rugby Pacific.

McKenzie had a manus successful each 4 of his team's tries and produced respective bully touches successful onslaught and defence successful a Chiefs squad which didn't ever marque bully usage of ample possession.

The Highlanders present are 0-3 for the play but this was their champion show aft a 2 floggings astatine the hands of the Blues and Crusaders.

The Highlanders spent overmuch of the archetypal fractional wrong their fractional but defended highly good and trailed by lone 8-0 astatine halftime.

Lapses of subject which gave up a bid of penalties and led to a sin-binning played into the Chiefs' hands successful the 2nd half. The Chiefs took vantage with 3 much tries including 2 to winger Shaun Stevenson, his 4th and 5th of the season.

The borderline mightiness person been larger but McKenzie was a spot wayward from the kicking tee, with lone 3 goals from 7 attempts.

"We came up against a Highlanders broadside that is beauteous desperate," Chiefs skipper Sam Cane said.

"We knew their archetypal 2 weeks weren't a existent reflection of wherever they are arsenic a team.

"We expected a existent conflict and that's precisely what we got. The archetypal 50 minutes were a existent limb wrestle. They defended good and forced america into mistakes. We didn't rather get capable points connected the committee for the possession we had."

McKenzie made his people early. As the Chiefs attacked connected the openside successful the sixth minute, McKenzie spotted a numerical vantage connected a wide blindside, changed the absorption of the onslaught and sent Etene Nanai-Seturo implicit for the archetypal try.

The Chiefs couldn't people different effort earlier halftime arsenic the Highlanders continued to repel their attacks and exit good with the assistance of agelong kicks from erstwhile England flyhalf Freddie Burns, playing astatine fullback.

The adjacent Chiefs effort came successful the 51st infinitesimal erstwhile McKenzie ran an elusive enactment and Rameka Poihipi handed disconnected a superb shot to Stevenson who chopped consecutive done a spread to score.

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Five minutes aboriginal Alex Nankivell broke down the near flank and McKenzie was determination to instrumentality his wrong pass. When helium was stopped Cane and Brad Weber carried the determination connected earlier Samipeni Finau scored.

Stevenson's 2nd came successful the 75th minute, this clip from McKenzie's last pass. In betwixt the Highlanders scored done Mosese Dawai.

McKenzie mightiness again beryllium looked astatine by the All Blacks selectors for a playmaker relation with flyhalves Beauden Barrett and Richie Mo'unga some disconnected to play successful Japan aft this year's World Cup.

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