Queensland Reds 2025

[Wilson]

Side to face Ulster:

Slightly weaker than last week but still a strong side.

 

[Sword of Justice]

Strange that we are playing with a normal 23 and they have like 50 in their team? Would prefer them to also be normal but I think it is important that we try and replicate super conditions at least for ourselves.

 

[hawko07]

Building great depth at the reds! This is a pretty handy side despite plenty of changes from last week

 

[Dctarget]

Damn the photographer did the players dirty there. Completely wrong lens and shocking lighting. They all look like potato cakes.

 

[LeCheese]

Half of them look like they've just been scalded by mum for not getting the chicken out of the freezer to thaw.
The other half look like they're three days into a contiki.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Campbell looks like he's got Scurvy and Les has the look of a man that is waiting for someone to smell his fart.

 

[Strewthcobber]

And Ryan has smelled it

 

[Spamnoodle]

Damn the photographer did the players dirty there. Completely wrong lens and shocking lighting. They all look like potato cakes.

*Scallops, potato scallops...

 

[Sully]

Liam Wright's having a good trip.

 

[Strewthcobber]

I think I'm right in saying no game time for LW, Trevor King, Matt Gibbon, Frankie Goldsbrough, Isaac Henry and Dre Pakeho

 

[LeCheese]

Henry isn't over there, and I don't think King or Gibbon are either (they definitely weren't named in the squad)

 

[Cole]

That's right, I think only 3 fit players from top squad not travelling, King, Craig, Gibbs. Gibbon, Henry, McCullogh all still injured

 

[Strewthcobber]

Was looking at an old squad announcement https://greenandgoldrugby.com/reds-announce-34-player-squad-for-uk-tour/

Try again - Pakeho and Wright

 

[Wilson]

Festival of rugby is returning to Narrabri as a post season match, with Reds and Waratahs men and women to play each other in September

Santos Festival of Rugby Returns to Narrabri in 2025

reds.rugby

 

[Adam84]

Liam Wright's having a good trip.

I said from the start he was unlikely to play, suspect he is there from a ‘captaincy perspective’

 

[Adam84]

Thats right, I think only 3 fit players from top squad not travelling, King, Craig, Gibbs. Gibbon, Henry, McCullogh all still injured

I dont think King or Gibbon are injured, just weren’t selected. They were training in the team opposed sessions the days before the tour.

 

[Sword of Justice]

Festival of rugby is returning to Narrabri as a post season match, with Reds and Waratahs men and women to play each other in September

Santos Festival of Rugby Returns to Narrabri in 2025

reds.rugby

Scared about this. We’ll destroy them twice during the season and our entire first 15 will be wallabies starters by then. Opens up the possibility of a dreaded last match bragging rights for the entire year situation.

 

[TSR]

Im disappointed Reds are sitting out the first week but I’m very keen for the season to kick off.

I’m happy to engage in pre-season banter and I think I’ll always be someone who errs on the side of being stupidly optimistic but I’d much rather be watching teams actually play and talk about that then speculating on how I think they will go (even with some of the brutal realities that sometimes entails).

 

[Derpus]

Scared about this. We’ll destroy them twice during the season and our entire first 15 will be wallabies starters by then. Opens up the possibility of a dreaded last match bragging rights for the entire year situation.

Saving this one for later

 

[Sword of Justice]

Should I save me telling you it was hyperbole for then?