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Another easy midfield break to the Canes close to the ruck. Cooper not rolling away penalty Canes five out close to touch. From lineout Canes go wide two ducks later and score easily. Reds a shambles. 17 to 5 kick to come.

Reds lose their feed on the scrum for going early a second time. Warned that next one is a penalty. Reds looking flat after a quick start. Cruden strolls past Shepherdson and scores under the posts. Both Cands tries have come from poor Reds set pieces giving away their own ball. 12 to 5...

Another average Hanson throw to two but the Reds hold it somehow. Canes get past Reds D again by a midfield grubber but go out on the 22.

Canes starting to find space in Reds defence as an inside switch gets them to the 22 and Hanson gives away a penalty. Cruden misses the penalty and it stays 5 all. 22 gone.

Genia complaining to the ref about a blatant Canes jnfrigement sees the Canes get a turnover and Reds lose field position. How the ref missed that one I don't know. The Reds then drop the ball from their own lineout. One from four so far.

Canes are looking just as sloppy as the reds as Hanson finally gets one right.

Hanson blows another lineout. Worst throw I've seen in years. Luckily the Reds get a turnover quickly.

Conversion falls short. 5 all about 13 in.

Cooper makes his first tackle of the night with a good tackle around he ankles on Gear. Good turnover then the Reds blow he lineout again to give Canes good field position. Canes finding lots of room out wide. Canes in the corner after some pressure and poor Reds defence. Could be high...

Poor execution to throw away great field position then Hanson throws a marginal not straight lineout.

Poor miss by Cooper though on the easy conversion. Reds unlucky not to have a second try. Looks like the Canes could be in for a long night so far.

Drop it Raugeee; complaining about refs ad nauseum is poor form, doing it before the game has even started is plumb crazy. If the Reds turn up and play well they will take the ref out of the game. Half the way to winning the battle with the ref to get the 50/50 decisions to be to dominant in...

Looks like I have made my first incorrect call after using my wildcard, with multiple players already having failed so far: Ice, Payne, Big Mac, plus I left Poki on the bench.

D'oh. The call on Big Mac loosing form Fantasy-wise seems to have been on the money as well. May have missed an opportunity to switch him for WP Nel.

Obviously, with you being a Force fan? (Unless I am mistaken...)

Franco VdM is on a bye; you might want to swap him with your bench player Jack - not that it matters, as he'll be auto-subbed anyway.

Hmmm, didn't even think of Cooper. With the weakened Canes and then Rebels, he could be a great buy for a few weeks.

Unfortunately Sykes is where my cash runs outs. I need to hold onto my last ~$100k for emergencies / my plan to sub Mealamu for Battleship. I could buy a better lock for Sykes if I dump Dagg for Lambie, but am loathe to run the risk with Lambie. Alternatively I could dump, Adriaan Strauss for...

What is interesting is Cutch is equal first, yet is pretty soundly criticised around here. I think that some have been overly harsh on him - the expectations are too high. Even saying that, I think that Cutch's impact around the ground have been greater than Waugh's, but obviously Waugh is...

Bleh, had to use my wildcard and I created a new team. Which I am now, funnily enough, not too happy with. Chopped and changed my outside backs a lot. I was sorely tempted to bring in Lambie, but left him out in the end. If he was an inside back then I definitely would've had him in there...