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Review Reds V. Chiefs – WE’RE BACK!

May 13th, 2012 · No Comments

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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Tags: Super Rugby · Aaron Cruden · Liam Messam · Provincial Rugby · Richard Kahui · Sonny Bill William · Mike Harris · digby ioane · post match review · queensland reds · rugby · james horwill · quade cooper · scott Higginbotham · will genia · review

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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Tags: Wyatt Crockett · Kieran Read · digby ioane · Ben Franks · Super Rugby · Taylor · Crokett · post match review · scott Higginbotham · crusaders · rugby · queensland reds · james horwill · ben lucas · will genia · review

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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Tags: post match review · Reds V. sharks · james horwill · sharks · rugby · reds · review

RWC 2011 - a week in quotes

September 17th, 2011 · No Comments

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Tags: Peter De Villiers · Sonny Bill Williams · Mike Tindall · james hook · Chris Ashton · Warren Gatland · Martin Johnson · robbie deans · Ma'a Nonu · John Smit · james horwill · quade cooper · Richie McCaw

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

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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Tags: david pocock · benn robinson · nathan sharpe · james horwill · Adam Ashley-Cooper · analysis · Opinion · Super Rugby · Melbourne Rebels · george smith · luke burgess · matt giteau · rocky elsom · Wallabies · Rugby World Cup · berrick barnes · western force · act brumbies · NSW waratahs · queensland reds · Australia

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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Tags: Shane Sullivan · Super Rugby · James Slipper · Bandise Maku · Luke Morahan · Vinnie Munroe · Reds v. Lions · Leroy Houston · Andre Pretorius · Spear Tackle · rugby · queensland reds · james horwill · digby ioane · quade cooper · review

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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Tags: Shane Sullivan · Super Rugby · James Slipper · Bandise Maku · Luke Morahan · Vinnie Munroe · Reds v. Lions · Leroy Houston · Andre Pretorius · Spear Tackle · rugby · queensland reds · james horwill · digby ioane · quade cooper · review

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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Tags: Fabian Juries · Super Rugby · Heinrik Brousow · Kabamba Floors · Shane Sullivan · will genia · quade cooper · rugby · ewen mckenzie · queensland reds · james horwill · 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

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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Tags: Ben Tapuia · Super Rugby · Colby Faingaa · Dom Shipperley · Julian Salvi · Ed Quirk · Aidan Toua · digby ioane · queensland reds · rugby · act brumbies · james horwill · mark chisholm · review

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

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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Tags: michael foley · ben alexander · james horwill · george gregan · chris whitaker · toutai kefu · matthew burke · pat howard · jim williams · rugby · tri-nations · robbie deans · matt burke · john eales · chris latham · Fiji

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