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Preview Reds V. Chiefs

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
This Sunday is Mothers Day in Queensland and thousands of them will flock to Lang Park to see the Reds take on the top of the ladder Chiefs. Adding to the incentive of having their mothers in the crowd is the massive ego boost they must have after “modelling” […]

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Tags: Provincial Rugby · Super Rugby · Ben Daley · 3rdtier · Kane Thompson · The Starch · Lang Park · Anthony Faingaa · Tanerau Latimer · queensland reds · beau robinson · rugby · chiefs · quade cooper · digby ioane · will genia · preview

Preview: Reds v. Chiefs

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

Stuart Fazakerley wrote this article.
This Sunday is Mothers Day in Queensland and thousands of them will flock to Lang Park to see the Reds take on the top of the ladder Chiefs. Adding to the incentive of having their mothers in the crowd is the massive ego boost they must have after “modelling” […]

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Tags: Provincial Rugby · Super Rugby · Ben Daley · 3rdtier · Kane Thompson · The Starch · Lang Park · Anthony Faingaa · Tanerau Latimer · queensland reds · beau robinson · rugby · chiefs · quade cooper · digby ioane · will genia · preview

Preview: Reds give A Faingaa to the Blues

April 26th, 2012 · No Comments

Brumby Jack wrote this article.
Anthony Faingaa is back! I’ve been hearing the rumours for days but I wasn’t getting my hopes up until I saw his name on an official team list. Well the QRU media release just hit my inbox and there he is at 22. The Starch in the Reds defencive […]

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Tags: Anthony Faingaa · tony woodcock · Super Rugby · Provincial Rugby · Blues V. Reds · digby ioane · craig joubert · rugby · preview · beau robinson · queensland reds · super 15 · Eden Park

2011 Super Rugby Queensland Reds Player of the Year

July 15th, 2011 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
We are the champions – my friends. And we’ll keep on fighting – till the end. We are the champions - We are the champions. No time for losers, ’Cause we are the champions – of the world.
What else is there to say that hasn’t been said already? So let’s get straight into it […]

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Tags: Radike Samo · digby ioane · Anthony Faingaa · Saia Faingaa · Super Rugby · James Slipper · scott Higginbotham · will genia · beau robinson · rugby · queensland reds · james horwill · quade cooper · review

Preview Reds v. Brumbies

June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
In their last two games the Reds have taken on the top two Kiwi teams and come away with two wins and played one of those games in front of an Australian Super Rugby record crowd. Surely the highlight of any Super Rugby teams season. It certainly took a […]

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Tags: digby ioane · Anthony Faingaa · Ben Daley · Shane Sullivan · Adam Ashley-Cooper · ben lucas · rugby · matt giteau · queensland reds · christian lealiifano · preview

Reds v. Brumbies Preview

June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
In their last two games the Reds have taken on the top two Kiwi teams and come away with two wins. They played one of those games in front of an Australian Super Rugby record crowd — surely the highlight of any Super Rugby team’s season. It certainly took […]

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Tags: digby ioane · Anthony Faingaa · Ben Daley · Shane Sullivan · Adam Ashley-Cooper · ben lucas · rugby · matt giteau · queensland reds · christian lealiifano · preview

Preview Rebels v. Reds

May 5th, 2011 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Ah this takes me back. An impressionable teenager in a movie theatre in outback Queensland. The rebellious youngster in an epic battle against the bigger stronger opponent. Sitting on the edge of my seat as the movie climaxes and they finally face each other.
“Did the Waratahs tell you […]

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Tags: Melbourne Rebels · James Slipper · Jarrod Saffy · Quensland Reds · Anthony Faingaa · Radike Samo · ewen mckenzie · stirling mortlock · quade cooper · digby ioane · preview

Rebels v. Reds Preview

May 5th, 2011 · No Comments

Barbarian wrote this article.
Ah, this takes me back. An impressionable teenager in a movie theatre in outback Queensland. The rebellious youngster in an epic battle against the bigger, stronger opponent. Sitting on the edge of my seat as the movie climaxes and they finally face each other.
“Did the Waratahs tell you what […]

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Tags: Melbourne Rebels · James Slipper · Jarrod Saffy · Quensland Reds · Anthony Faingaa · Radike Samo · ewen mckenzie · stirling mortlock · quade cooper · digby ioane · preview

Red for a day.

February 10th, 2011 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
For those that didn’t quite get the joke of this and then this, sorry. There was no mystery Reds signing. It was just me, your intrepid ‘reporter’, getting the chance to train with the Queensland Reds. Some time ago Coach Ewen McKenzie invited me, as proxy for Matt Gagger, […]

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Tags: Humour · Saia Faingaa · Rodney Davies · Ben Tapuia · Ed Quirk · Reg Roberts · linkedin · Anthony Faingaa · peter hynes · ewen mckenzie · rugby · queensland reds · james horwill · will genia · quade cooper · preview

Australian Rugby’s Twitterati

February 4th, 2011 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
Twitter? Are you serious G&GR? It’s enough to have that bloody scrolling thing down the side of your front page, but now you’re doing stories about it?
Yes, yes we are.
With the Super Rugby season about to kick off, I thought it timely to do a recap of who’s doing […]

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Tags: Melbourne Rebels · gareth delve · Anthony Faingaa · Afusipa Taumoepeau · Saia Faingaa · Humour · twitter · Cooper Vuna · Laurie Weeks · Super Rugby · adam freier · digby ioane · western force · stirling mortlock · ewen mckenzie · rugby · queensland reds · NSW waratahs · Misc · quade cooper · james horwill · act brumbies · preview

Do we know them….yet? An ARC retrospective.

October 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
With the Tri-Nations over, and the domestic competitions finished, Australian Rugby is left with a notable gap in the market. A fact obvious by the complete lack of content in the papers at the moment. Hell, even we here at Green and Gold Rugby have slowed down a little. […]

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Tags: Saia Faingaa · Ben Daley · AJ Gilbert · Alfi Mafi · Josh Holmes · Jeremy Tilse · Anthony Faingaa · Salesi Ma'afu · luke burgess · kurtley beale · david pocock · shawn mackay · dean mumm · matt hodgson · rugby

Do we know them….yet? An ARC retrospective.

October 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Austin wrote this article.
With the Tri-Nations over, and the domestic competitions finished, Australian Rugby is left with a notable gap in the market. A fact obvious by the complete lack of content in the papers at the moment. Hell, even we here at Green and Gold Rugby have slowed down a little. There’s […]

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Tags: Saia Faingaa · Ben Daley · AJ Gilbert · Alfi Mafi · Josh Holmes · Jeremy Tilse · Anthony Faingaa · Salesi Ma'afu · luke burgess · kurtley beale · david pocock · shawn mackay · dean mumm · matt hodgson · rugby

Rugby Reg’s Rookie Review.

October 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Lee Coan wrote this article.
In one of those numerical type quirks that can excite some people (not me it must be noted), in the ten tests played by the Wallabies in 2010, coach Robbie Deans has used ten rookies.  This means that a little under a third of the players used by […]

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Tags: Ben Daley · Anthony Faingaa · Rob Simmons · Saia Faingaa · James Slipper · Ben McCalman · Salesi Ma'afu · rugby · rob horne · matt hodgson · Huia Edmonds. · Wallabies

Rugby Reg’s Rookie Review.

October 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Brumby Jack wrote this article.
In one of those numerical type quirks that can excite some people (not me it must be noted), in the ten tests played by the Wallabies in 2010, coach Robbie Deans has used ten rookies.  This means that a little under a third of the players used by […]

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Tags: Ben Daley · Anthony Faingaa · Rob Simmons · Saia Faingaa · James Slipper · Ben McCalman · Salesi Ma'afu · rugby · rob horne · matt hodgson · Huia Edmonds. · Wallabies

G&GR Reds Player of the Year

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Gagger wrote this article.
At the end of each game throughout the 2010 Super 14 season over at the forum, readers have submitted their 3-2-1’s for each Australian team. All of these votes will accumulated and an overall 3-2-1 assigned for each match to the three leading point getters for each Aussie team. […]

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Tags: peter hynes · digby ioane · Anthony Faingaa · Daniel Braid · QRU · scott Higginbotham · queensland reds · james horwill · quade cooper · will genia · rugby