Reds v Moana Pasifika Rd2 Friday 21 February Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane 7:35pm

[Sully]

HMP or Mason for me.

Mason is injured, not sure when he is due back.

 

[Adam84]

Thought they said Mason was a head knock in training so should be back this week

 

[Wilson]

Encourage you to watch it again. I can’t screenshot because Stan has anti piracy tech but McReight is nowhere near on laying on the ground. He was being rolled out of the ruck as he did it so if the ref had said hands in the ruck that would have made a bit more sense but you hardly ever see that being pinned since they have started interpreting jackaling as hands directly on the ball.

His knee hits the deck before he sweeps, the second angle they showed had it relatively cleanly. As has been said, it's the sort of thing you get away with a lot of the time, but not when the opposition is hot on attack.

That said, trading 3 for a yellow worked out pretty well there, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Reds defensive strategy going into the game involved risking cards to stop tries, given a bp should've always been the aim.

 

[dru]

I hope not! Reds have had too many past problems with refs and building a reputation that did NOT work for them. Les needs to beat that out of them this week.

And next week we have Force and Reds, thank about the YC trend if it continues.

 

[TSR]

I hope not! Reds have had too many past problems with refs and building a reputation that did NOT work for them. Les needs to beat that out of them this week.

And next week we have Force and Reds, thank about the YC trend if it continues.

I’ll back us in a game of 7s

 

[Sully]

Force managed more cards than us, it really could be a game of sevens.