Reds v Waratahs, round 19 2014

[Hawko]

Tahs should be ready for a kicking game, RG won't be playing any rugby in the reds half.

RG won't be playing any rugby. Full stop, end of quote.

There will be a lot of rugby played in the Reds' half. The Highlanders had a lot of rugby played in their half; as soon as they cleared it the Tahs came thundering back again. The Highlanders are a far more complete team than the Reds this year.

 

[qwerty51]

I wouldn't say that, Reds beat them after all. Highlanders have overachieved all season considering their personnel and I think it's finally catching up to them. Despite all the praise about how well the Waratahs played I don't think they played near as good as some of their similar margin wins. Expect a 30+ thrashing from the Saders this weekend. Could be 55-3.

 

[Scrubber2050]

Was disgusted at my namesake's comments in the Courier mail and bouyed by those of Slipper. Fuck, we are up for this one.

Tahs to choke, Queenslander passion to prevail. Big Kevie to lead from the front

 

[gel]

I have heard the reds (including slipper) all year saying that they are "up for this week's game" or it's an "easy game to be up for" in their little youtube interviews, only to put in an utterly impotent performance, therefore I don't put any faith in anything that the players or coach actually say, because their deeds have rarely matched their rhetoric.

Stan was probably right in being very critical. He knows a butt load more than I do about the game and can probably see things that I miss quite easily (like signs of not putting in the extras at training or whatever?)

And it sounds like he is not alone in his thoughts.

 

[Scrubber2050]

who is Sam????????

 

[Scoey]

There will be a lot of rugby played in the Reds' half. The Highlanders had a lot of rugby played in their half; as soon as they cleared it the Tahs came thundering back again. The Highlanders are a far more complete team than the Reds this year.

This is pretty much how I see it panning out. Our kicking game lately has not been effective at all. We will either stay out of the rucks as we have been doing and the Tahs will rumble straight up the middle, or we will contest heavily in numbers to try and counter their size and aggression and they will find space and metres out wide.
I hope the boys are 'up for it' as Slipper says and make a fist of it.

 

[Scoey]

Is anyone able to post up some text from the Pilecki article? I can't seem to find any articles that aren't behind paywalls.

 

[A mutterer]

If I was a reds fan and they played out of their skins against the tahs I'd be even more pissed that they didn't do it at all this year.

Cue Alex Ferguson type rant about this

 

[gel]

who is Sam????????

Whoops - I was using my iPhone this morning and I mis-typed it. Damn my fat fingers!!!

My mistake, I really should reread what I write before posting, or download that tapatalk thingie. Sorry about that.

@Scoey:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...ollycoddled-reds/story-e6frg7o6-1226981028602

But the occasion has been hijacked by Stan Pilecki, the man after whom Queensland’s best-and-fairest medal is named.
The legendary hard man of the great Maroon sides of the 1970s and 80s urged former players to turn up at Ballymore to remind current Reds of their responsibilities. As painful as the “morale boosting” gathering promises to be, it will be less embarrassing than the alternative suggested by one former official, that past players boycott the training session in protest at the limp performance of the Reds who have fallen from the heights of a title win in 2011 to now be fourth last on the Super Rugby table with only five wins from 15 matches.
In a thundering email sent to the former players in the wake of Queensland’s soft capitulation to the Force on Saturday night, Pilecki growled it was time to stop “mollycoddling” the Reds.
“I find it hard to support a team that doesn’t support itself,” Pilecki wrote.
“I was embarrassed and disgusted with the efforts shown on Saturday. I don’t mid losing as long as you try to win … have a go! Not too many guys had a go on Saturday. They showed little pride in the jersey.”

 

[scaraby]

Waratah team named:

1 Dunning
2 Edmonds
3 Noriega
4 West
5 Bowman
6 Tawake
7 Tuivaii
8 Lyons
9 Whitaker
10 Edmonds
11 Cullimore
12 Harris
13 Burke
14 Staniforth

15 Rogers

Cmon guys can't believe you're joking about this what a ridiculous team............. Matt Dunning will never play an end of season game again!!!

 

[Scrubber2050]

Is anyone able to post up some text from the Pilecki article? I can't seem to find any articles that aren't behind paywalls.

Mate try "Brisbane Times"

 

[Scrubber2050]

Cmon guys can't believe you're joking about this what a ridiculous team..... Matt Dunning will never play an end of season game again!!!

Nowadays with his body shape he'd have to be a 7

 

[scaraby]

Nowadays with his body shape he'd have to be a 7

Maybe he's working his way into a job at 10...then he can kick drop goals to his heart's content for 2nd grade Subbies.

 

[RugbyReg]

rehash to get the blood pumping

 

[Sully]

Interesting player at Reds training.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

 

[Braveheart81]

Are you trying to trick Cheika into naming Phil Waugh and David Lyons to help combat Samo?

 

[qwerty51]

Is this the 'secret weapon' Reg alluded to a week ago?

 

[Braveheart81]

Is this the 'secret weapon' Reg alluded to a week ago?

Maybe he'll take someone out with his zimmer frame.

 

[KOB1987]

Is Samo eligible? As much as I respect him as a player I think they need 3 or 4 more of him and a couple of Folaus to get through with a win..

 

[RugbyReg]

Where's the photo from? Looks old. Is that "Kooga" on the shirts?

It's DKs birthday today. Players are posting a lot of old photos of him.