Author: Shane Sullivan

The Reds 2015 season moves to South Africa and the first team off the rank is the Bulls. The Bulls have been almost unstoppable at Loftus since 2007. Shit I put Bulls, Loftus and 2007 in one sentence! The pain has started pulsating through my chest. No one mention 92-3! How they’re Travelling The Reds have had a crap week. And that’s saying a hell of a lot. The man who was going to save the coaches job is broken for most of the season. Quade Cooper’s return saw an almost instant return to something like organisation in the team.…

Super Rugby Teams Round 9 2015 The new GAGR design has broken my icons! I will figure something out during the week but until then you’ll just have to put up with this uglyness. We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

Super Rugby Teams Round 7 2015 The new GAGR design has broken my icons! I will figure something out during the week but until then you’ll just have to put up with this uglyness. We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

Super Rugby Teams Round 6 2015 The new GAGR design has broken my icons! I will figure something out during the week but until then you’ll just have to put up with this uglyness. We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

Ash put together a great review of the Reds v Brumbies game at Suncorp last night. I liked his head line so much I stole it.  Here are my photos from that game. Click on the photo for a larger image then use your arrow keys to navigate. Enjoy.

Super Rugby Teams Round 5 2015 We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

Welcome back to the Tuesday top 5 Let’s start with the Whale sized Elephant in the room… 5. The Reds are a rabble There is no glossing over what’s happening in Queensland. With no discernible attacking structure, a leaking defence line and a large injury list it’s easy to believe the Reds season is already over. They have great players like James Horwill, Rob Simmons, Karmichael Hunt and the mercurial Quade Cooper all due back this month. But it’s hard to imagine that even the 2011 Cooper could turn this around. That 2011 team was brilliant but it was also…

I’ve put a couple of the photo sequences I shot on Saturday nights Reds v Waratahs clash into a couple of videos. They show the work that goes into a scrum and the devastation that Will Skelton can create. You also have to compare Skeltons boot size to Nick Frisby’s chest. [youtube id=”OvOGJPOdbfg” width=”600″ height=”350″] [youtube id=”hMTSHfOSeSU” width=”600″ height=”350″]

The Reds had their first win of the year in a scrappy match against the Force whilst the Highlanders went down to the Crusaders in a hard fought battle in Dunedin. James O’Connor gets the cursed 10 jersey this week and there are plenty of Aussie fans eager to see how he will go after his enforced 18 months in European rugby. The Match In the first couple of minutes it seemed like business as usual for the Reds with two ruck penalties firstly gifting the Highlanders field position, then three points. The Highlanders had plenty of possession but couldn’t…

Super Rugby Team Lists Round 1 2015 We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

Super Rugby Team Lists Round 1 2015 We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

Super Rugby Team Lists Round 1 2015 We will update the lists as the teams come in. Or you can get all the latest info on our Facebook, Twitter and Google plus pages. BYES:

We’ve rested up. Came back to training earlier from the end of year tour. Had our niggling injuries stitched together by top surgeons. Massaged at that booth at the shopping centre. I tried to get someone to look at my groin! No takers. Some old stager’s have moved to the long paddock but we’ve recruited well. Queensland Reds ‘well’. The Dietician is on a one way flight to Bora Bora. We fired the S&C guys weeks ago and paid off the psychologists with a case of Pure Blonde. We’re on a straight run to the start line. I can feel…

The Queensland Rugby Union put on a great event at Ballymore for the NRC Final. And both teams put on a match that did the new National Rugby Championship proud. Brisbane City ran out the eventual winners pulling away in the final minutes to win 37 to 26. The Perth Spirit can walk away with their heads held high. They put up a tough fight and did their supportetrs proud. Here are our best shots from the night.

The events after have taken the gloss off what was a very good game of rugby. Sure the good guys lost but nothing can be taken away from either team in what was a fantastic contest. A personal message from me to Ewen McKenzie. Good luck with what ever your future holds. You don’t deserve this or the attention certain parts of the media have sent your way. Your contribution to Australian Rugby is appreciated by myself and everyone I know and my respect for you is unchanged. Sully

I’m sick of it. I’m sick of hearing how we haven’t won at such and such a ground since 1917. It doesn’t matter! I’m sick of hearing how big these Saffers are and how their going to smash us. They’re not that big! And there wasn’t a whole lot of smashing last time we played. I’m sick of someone bitching about our scrum before every match. Like the Ref is sitting in his hotel room thinking Victor is right those Aussies cheat in the scrums and the Saffers are amazing. Our scrum is back, get over it. I’m sick of…

If you had asked Wallabies fans at the start of the year if they’d be happy with three wins, a draw and a loss to start the season nearly everyone would have replied in the affirmative. Last week you might have thought the sky was falling given the angst of many Wallaby supporters. This week we have a different challenge. The South African Barbecuing Behemoths have sashayed into Perth for what many of them think is a home game. Big Changes! The Wallabies Ewen McKenzie has resisted changing his forwards and I agree. When the New Zealanders get in the…

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It’s all on the line for Australia tonight. A win or a draw will keep their Bledisloe dreams alive. A loss will add another chapter to the Eden park hoodoo and consign this group of wallabies to the same ridicule as the ones from the twelve previous seasons. The Match Roman Poite waited 14 seconds before he awarded his first penalty and he continued to blow them at regular intervals for the first 12 minutes of the match when he sent Ritchie McCaw to the bin for playing the ball on the ground. Australia kicked the resulting penalty but the…