Lee Coan wrote this article.
Sunday afternoon Rugby in Brisbane is always special, but when it’s on a beautiful clear Autumn day it’s nearly perfect.
The chiefs had the early running until Liam Messams pass into the arms of Mike Harris, who scuttled off downfield attracting three defenders before passing to Dom Shipperly for the Try. Harris couldn’t convert the […]
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Review Reds V. Chiefs – WE’RE BACK!
May 13th, 2012 · No Comments
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Review Crusaders V. Reds
May 6th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
An improving Reds side travelled to Christchurch to take on a Crusaders side who look to be on a mission to win another Super Rugby Title. The Reds hadn’t read the script though and from the kick off charged down Ellis’s kick for touch, regained the ball and through […]
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Sharks V. Reds – Review
March 17th, 2012 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
The Sharks lost JP Pieterson in the warm up. A late change to any team is disruptive but the sharks seem to handle it with no problems. The expected fine weather has not eventuated and it looks like another wet game for the Reds.
The first try comes to the […]
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RWC 2011 - a week in quotes
September 17th, 2011 · No Comments
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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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Dwyer’s View: Aussie teams off pace, but squad firming
May 1st, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
All five Aussie franchises played in the Super Rugby tournament on the weekend and only one of the five had a win – and that against another Aussie team! Not a very reassuring thought, perhaps, but there were still plenty of positives to be taken.
For a start, Berrick […]
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Reds wobble to 5 point victory over luckless Lions
April 3rd, 2011 · No Comments
Bob Dwyer wrote this article.
The Lions came into this match with 1 win from 6 matches, having lost four from 5 matches by less than 7. The Reds were sitting atop the Australian conference with 4 out of 5 wins, but are still looking for the attacking form they showed last year. After […]
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Reds wobble to 5-point victory over luckless Lions
April 3rd, 2011 · No Comments
Bob Dwyer wrote this article.
The Lions came into this match with one win from six matches, having lost four-from-five by less than seven points. The Reds were sitting atop the Australian conference with four wins, but still looking for the attacking form they showed last year. After the game nothing much has changed: […]
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Preview: Reds V. Cheetahs
March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Excited to be Back
On Saturday at 2:40 pm the Reds play their first game against a team outside the Australian Conference. They come up against a Cheetahs side buoyed by their first ever win on Australian soil.
Their win against the Waratahs was a lesson in sticking to your game […]
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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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Inaugural Territory Cup Brumbies vs. Reds Match Review
February 5th, 2011 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
What has been a big week for Northern Territory Rugby was capped off by the playing of the inaugural Territory Cup between the Brumbies and Reds at Rugby Park in Darwin, in front of an estimated crowd of 4000. The Reds put on a dominant performance, sealing a win over […]
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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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A RWC Wallaby Retrospective: 1999 vs 2011!
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan wrote this article.
Where were we in 98:
A squad full of World Champions.
Looking back to June-ish 1998 and using the IRB Rankings formula, via the Pick and Go web site, we disover that the Wallabies were sitting in 3rd spot on the ‘world rankings’. Above them were the All Blacks (1st) and […]
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G&GR Waratahs Player of the Year
May 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Lee Coan 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 […]
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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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