All posts tagged "ewen mckenzie"

  • France
    The impact of Will Skelton

    A record crowd of 43 188 gathered at Allianz Stadium, eagerly awaiting the debut of the biggest...

  • Rugby
    GAGR Wallaby Player of the Year 2013: EOYT

    Time to take yourself back to the end of October. The Wallabies were embarking on a five...

  • Queensland Reds
    Quade Cooper Hearing: The Verdict

    The verdict from Quade Cooper’s hearing has just been handed down. After the hearing and deliberations took...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Review: Reds v. Brumbies – A Hoodoo Broken

    The Reds have defeated the Brumbies 20-13 in a tight, hard-fought game. Important for the Reds, there...

  • Rugby
    A Queensland Reds Fans Year In Review

    Coming in to this Super Rugby season I had hopes of the Reds making the top 6...

  • Rebels v. Reds Preview

    Ah, this takes me back. An impressionable teenager in a movie theatre in outback Queensland. The rebellious...

  • Rugby
    A Game Too Far: Hurricanes v. Reds Review

    In my preview I suggested that the result of this game would come down to who wanted it more. It now looks like both teams wanted it pretty badly. The Hurricanes reminded everyone that they are a New Zealand rugby powerhouse and the Reds were in it until the final kick of...

  • Queensland Reds
    Who wants it more? Hurricanes v. Reds preview

    Few punters would have backed the Reds to be equal first or the Hurricanes to be 13th,...

  • Queensland Reds
    Preview: Reds v. Cheetahs

    On Saturday at 2:40 pm the Reds play their first game against a team outside the Australian Conference. They come up against a Cheetahs side buoyed by their first-ever win on Australian soil. Their win against the Waratahs was a lesson in sticking to your game plan. They attacked the Waratahs’ ruck...

  • Queensland Reds
    Red for a day.

    For those that didn’t quite get the joke of this and then this, sorry. There was no...

  • Queensland Reds
    Reds & Roberts Reunite!

    We brought you the story about a month ago of a new mystery player set to link...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Australian Rugby’s Twitterati

    Twitter? Are you serious G&GR? It’s enough to have that bloody scrolling thing down the side of...

  • Queensland Reds
    New Reds Recruit?

    UPDATE: Due to the flooding Reds training was called off yesterday and Reg’s house is also being...

  • Rugby
    A RWC Wallaby Retrospective: 1995 vs 2011!

    Where were we in 94: Even though the IRB rankings didn’t really come into effect until somewhere...

  • Melbourne Rebels
    At my signal, unleash hell!

    So were the inspirational words spoken by Russel Crowe as Maximus, one of cinema’s greatest ‘Rebels’, in...

  • Queensland Reds
    Broke, Blooming and Bringing Back the Biff

    ‘Better red than dead’ was the saying in the 1940s when red stood for a socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and consequent violent regime change. Locally, the revolution over recent weeks has been the Queensland Reds overthrow of the natural order of things. The Super 14 working class heroes against the capitalist...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Oz Super 14 coaches: a force multiplier?

    In military parlance, a force multiplier is an asset that increases your ability to succeed in the violence of the battlefield. Transposed to rugby it is the people, strategies, innovation and organisation that you can bring to your franchise to enhance success. And one of the major force multipliers in any season...

  • ACT Brumbies
    Trials: Trick or Treat?

    It only seems like yesterday that we were wiping the sleep from our eyes, cranking up the laptops and watching the G&GR live blog from Kingsholme as the Dirties took on Glos? And isn’t it still summer? Didn’t Punter and the boys clean up the Pakis earlier this week? Well bugger me, its footy...

  • Rugby
    Preview: Tahs vs Reds Trial

    The Super 14 trial match and between the NSW Waratahs and the Queensland Reds sees the Round 1 opponents going head to head in the far northern NSW town of Lismore. As is the custom with these trial matches, the format is open to the interpretation of the respective coaches, but should...

  • Queensland Reds
    I see Red people!

    The Reds took their first tentative steps toward the launch of the 2010 season by unveiling their...