Reds vs Blues

[TOCC]

QR Reds
1 Ben Daley (Gold Coast)
2 Saia Faingaa (Souths)
3 Laurie Weeks (University)
4 Adam Byrnes (University)
5 Van Humphries (Souths)
6 Jake Schatz (Sunnybank)
7 Daniel Braid (vc) (Sunshine Coast)
8 Scott Higginbotham (Wests)
9 Will Genia (c) (Norths)
10 Quade Cooper (Souths)
11 Rod Davies (GPS)
12 Anthony Faingaa (Souths)
13 Morgan Turinui (Sunshine Coast)
14 Digby Ioane (Sunnybank)
15 Peter Hynes (GPS)

16 Sean Hardman (Brothers)
17 Greg Holmes (Sunnybank)
18 Rob Simmons (Sunnybank)
19 Leroy Houston (Norths)
20 Richard Kingi (Sunnybank)
21 Tim Walsh (club TBC)
22 Will Chambers (club TBC)


Blues:
15 Paul Williams
14 Joe Rokocoko
13 Rene Ranger
12 Benson Stanley
11 Rudi Wulf
10 Stephen Brett
9 Alby Mathewson
8 Peter Saili
7 Serge Lilo
6 Jerome Kaino
5 Anthony Boric
4 Kurtis Haiu
3 Charlie Faumuina
2 Keven Mealamu (captain)
1 John Afoa.

Reserves:
16 Tom McCartney
17 Tony Woodcock
18 Filo Paulo
19 Viliami Ma'afu
20 Chris Smylie
21 Daniel Kirkpatrick
22 Lachie Munro/George Pisi.

[MI5_Dog]

ford vs holden?
Halo animation?

carn the reds

[zimeric]

give those showpony Aucklanders a hiding!!

[sandgroperrugby]

The way Genia and Cooper are playing they will surely push for the Wallabies spots together. Maybe another enduring 9/10 combo for Australia!?

Go Reds

[TOCC]

The way Genia and Cooper are playing they will surely push for the Wallabies spots together. Maybe another enduring 9/10 combo for Australia!?

Go Reds

Cooper needs to fix up his defence still, not to bad head on, but he still falls off a lot when they are running angles

[GIGS20]

Yeah, but you can work on that.........insane brilliance in attack is a little harder to coach!

Go Reds!

[TOCC]

it will be a interesting game at least, im a little worried though, Benson Stanley is a rock in defence, check out some of his videos on youtube, and Rene Ranger has some serious speed which could burn Turinui if he doesnt defend correctly.

Blues forward pack is stacked with talent as well, just hope they dont click on saturday night.

Blues were actually my pick for the Super14 season, that however was assuming Toeave, Tuitavake and McAlister were in the side.

[James]

I don't know TOCC I don't really rate their back five in the pack (Kaino aside). Stephen Brett has been in bad form too has he not? The Reds won it in North Harbour last year and I have a feeling a home game for a confident Reds side could see a win. I hope the Reds win it anyway.

[GIGS20]

Blues have been fragile this year.

Reds will go into the game as massive underdogs, a tag which has only made them play better so far.

Reds'll give this one a massive shake and probably smash them.......there is also the possibility of the Blues living up to their potential though!

[Woody]

Can't see them reaching their potential while Pat Lam is coaching. Ranger is playing out of position, Woodcock has been benched and yep, Steven Brett has been ordinary. He is a hugely skilled player who doesn't quite get the 'team' thing. The Blues style won't do his consistancy much good.
Go the Reds.

[mudskipper]

Should be good, Blues you never know what you get... Reds by Margin 1-12 on form...

[TOCC]

Been raining all day in brissie, not good for ballymore patrons, wont be real crash hot in the handling stakes either
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[BDAVEY]

bloody wet TOCC I watched the game here in Perth 38 degrees outside!!!! Reds played well but just got physically smashed there was some mighty hits the one on Digby and Genia I didnt expect them to stand up!!!
They are playing good rugby and will make the top half of the table this year

[Woody]

I thought they would romp in, a couple of injuries and it all turned to shit. How about Cooper's eyes?

[tic]

Unfortunately for the Reds, it was like a typical Auckland night.

Well played Blues - but I think a dry track would have likely seen the positions reversed.

The Reds still showed a fair bit of ticker. They are a different team this year - as far as attitude and fitness goes.