Tight scrap: Reds pip Brumbies
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The Reds escaped Canberra with a 13-12 win over the Brumbies after pivot Zack Holmes missed a last-gasp penalty to win the game for his team.
With time up on the clock, Holmes pushed his 37 metre attempt wide to hand Queensland a Super Rugby lifeline as the defending champions picked up a third consecutive win that keeps their play-off hopes alive.
The Reds, who scored the only try of the match, have now cut back the Brumbies' lead at the top of the Australian conference to five points. It means the teams are almost level on points in the Australian conference as the Queenslanders have a bye next weekend.
With Wallabies coach Robbie Deans watching from the stands, the top two Australian teams bashed and belted each other in a brutally tight match.
Quade Cooper completed a full 80 minutes for the Reds for the first time this season, giving himself a chance of being selected in an extended Wallabies' squad for the June Tests after recovering from his serious knee injury at last year's World Cup.
Reds full-back Luke Morahan enhanced his chances of selection as a Wallaby full-back with his dashing try after fielding a high kick deep in his own half and launching a counter-attack and scoring off his own kick ahead in the third minute of the match.
Mike Harris kicked the conversion, but from then on in it was a kicking duel between the Reds centre and Holmes, who landed four penalties - but not his fifth and last attempt, which would have sealed victory.
The scorers:
For Brumbies:
Pens: Holmes 4
For Reds:
Try: Morahan
Con: Harris
Pens: Harris 2
Brumbies: 15 Jesse Mogg, 14 Henry Speight, 13 Andrew Smith, 12 Pat McCabe, 11 Joe Tomane, 10 Zack Holmes, 9 Nic White; 8 Ben Mowen (c), 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Peter Kimlin, 5 Sam Carter, 4 Scott Fardy, 3 Dan Palmer, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 Ben Alexander.
Replacements: 16 Anthony Hegarty, 17 Ruaidhri Murphy, 18 Leon Power, 19 Ita Vaea, 20 Ian Prior, 21 Robbie Coleman, 22 Tevita Kuridrani.
Reds: 15 Luke Morahan, 14 Dom Shipperley, 13 Anthony Faingaa, 12 Mike Harris, 11 Digby Ioane, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Scott Higginbotham, 7 Liam Gill, 6 Beau Robinson, 5 James Horwill (c), 4 Rob Simmons, 3 James Slipper, 2 Saia Faingaa, 1 Greg Holmes.
Replacements: 16 James Hanson, 17 Ben Daley, 18 Adam Wallace-Harrison, 19 Jake Schatz, 20 Nick Frisby, 21 Dallan Murphy, 22 Chris F'Sautia.
Referee: Steve Walsh (Australia)
Comments
sandal says...
@ Trinats
Ah ha!
You say: ""British ??? Don't insult me please. I lived there, played rugby there, also live and played rugby in Ireland too prior.""
So there is some substance to my conjecture. I think you may have brought back more than just a dose from the old country. To paraphrase an old add for Foster's: He who acts British thinks British.
Apologies for the late response, btw, I've been out of circulation for a couple of days.
Posted 11:32 01st June 2012
sandal says...
@new_j4a
This correspondence should have ended long ago, but humour me:
Why do you think I am getting huffy?
I think you mistook the tone of what I wrote, my friend.
Posted 11:28 01st June 2012
Trinats2 says...
new_j4a:
Finding it difficult each week to predict scores with unpredictable refs ! A team can get trashed by a lower ranked team one week and then trash a team ranked higher the following. I do predict the Reds will make it to the playoffs and could get the Bulls in the final in SA. and the irony of ironies, Bulls to pick up heaps of injuries and Reds back to fully fit, Reds by 20+
Posted 09:53 31st May 2012
new_j4a says...
@sandal, don't get all huffy on me or you'll begin to remind me of.....oh, you're not my first wife, are you? I swear I posted the money. Either way, can you please explain this statement..."exhibits a kind of ignorance I have never observed in an Aussie." I would be proud to finally meet someone who claimed that they had discovered a type or blend of ignorance (no matter how small) not found in abundance in Australia.
@Trinats, Not to worry about the beer...I am not even half way through the beer I bought with my winnings based on your tips last season. Could you please start making regular predictions again now that there are only Kiwi and Saffa teams in the race.....as soon as you can please, I have 3 kids to put through uni.
Posted 20:41 30th May 2012
Trader2 says...
Guys you see what I mean about Trinats being delusionary he thinks Saia Fainga is RM, hang on is that the other way around.
Posted 14:40 30th May 2012
Trinats2 says...
kiwilad:
You wouldn't know if you were been wound up if you were a rolex !!!
Ramage:
Normally when he is 2 meters on the otherside of a ruck, getting away with it as usual ;-).
sandal in the wind:
British ??? Don't insult me please. I lived there, played rugby there, also live and played rugby in Ireland too prior.
Posted 13:29 30th May 2012
Ramage says...
See you are still trolling as usual trinuts tell me when did you see McCaw jersey pulling?
Posted 10:10 30th May 2012
Trinats2 says...
Ramage:
Amazing, I read your first paragraph and thought, I recognise this from somewhere, then it came to me !!!!
I inserted Richie McCaw instead of Saia Fainga and BINGO !!!!! That's where I saw it, many times before !!!
J4A, thanks for the knid words, still not buying you a beer !!! LOL
Posted 07:27 30th May 2012
kiwilad says...
new-J4all, I would have Trinats in my team, others here just need to learn when they are being wound up.
Posted 05:05 30th May 2012
sandal says...
@new_j4a says...
Fair enough, ignore me. I am sure no one here needs me.
Perhaps I shouldn't urge people to ignore Trinats, because obviously some take pleasure from arguing with him. I just don't understand why others get het up about him.
But as to Trinats being quintessentially Australian, I'm not so sure. In this very thread he says something that is quintessentially British and exhibits a kind of ignorance I have never observed in an Aussie.
Posted 04:35 30th May 2012
Ramage says...
@trippa concur with you about Saia Fainga he is the biggest crybaby of all when caught, He is always coming in from the side diving over the ball and is a master at jersey pulling. One day he will be whacked and no doubt it will be the whacker who is punished..
Isn't it interesting the whining Trinuts believes if he says something often enough he will be believed. He works on the squeaky wheel idea but unfortunately for him his credibility is shot to pieces on this forum and people humour him asthet are used to his over the top theories. Whether he likes it or not and no matter what he says NZ are RWC Champions the only team who weren't beaten in any RWC game and a team that demolished his own men in the yellow shirts in the semi final.
As for his predictions I see he falls back on that hoary old chestnut of blame the home ref . OMG, surely he can come up with something better than that. At least he admitted it wasn't a home town ref that caused the Rabbles to lose but then after such a walloping even Trinuts would be stretching that one, so he meekly ran up the white flag.
Posted 13:56 29th May 2012
Trader2 says...
Ahhh so Trinats finally admits that Aussie Super sides are useless away from home so now it's just the WC he is on about and that shows that in front of their own supporters the Wannabies bottle it every time, now there is a FACT. @Sandal wrong there old chap Trinats is an Aussie all right, well a Queenslander anyway, and therein lies the reason why we all should point out the FACT that he would not recognise a FACT if it leapt up and bit him on the bum. 90% of his assertions have no FACTUAL basis and we all have a responsibility to point this out to him and prevent any long term psychotic damage. There are enough delusionary Queenslanders running around as it is.
Posted 09:48 29th May 2012
new_j4a says...
@sandal says..."Why does anyone respond to Trinats? Those who do demean themselves. " Really? I find him humourous and quintessentially Australian. When the floods hit Brisbane a couple of years ago, several posters here wrote to PR to check on him. On the other hand, I find that I can easily go several months without reading one of your posts. So if you're calling for a vote, mine is to keep Trinats and struggle along without you....just a question of taste, mate, nothing personal, just that there is more than enough boring in the world without you adding.
Posted 09:19 29th May 2012
tha_mai says...
I didn't see any of tnats' "test match intensity" it was so dull at 20min I went out cycling instead; a neutral review from the Sydney MH would indicate I didn't miss much:
"There is no avoiding it - the Canberra game was awful. 79 minutes and 55 seconds of joyless cynicism and inadequate skill levels . . . forward passes, players deliberately lying on the wrong side of the ruck, players lying on top of the ruck, players lying on top of each other behind play, kicks booted into touch on the full, dodgy handling, teammates colliding at the lineout, inaccurate lineout throwing, messy scrummaging"
Did he miss anything?
Posted 08:10 29th May 2012
sandal says...
Further to what I was saying before about ignoring Trinats, I have reason to suspect that he is not even Australian -- just someone amusing himself from, most likely, the British Isles.
So let's ignore him. Starve him of any response and he will fade away.
Posted 07:12 29th May 2012
sandal says...
Why does anyone respond to Trinats? Those who do demean themselves.
Posted 01:47 29th May 2012
Trinats2 says...
Trader2:
The rugby world cup, the ultimate prize, the yard stick for world rugby. Aus 2 times World Champions and NZ 2 times world champions, FACT.
NZ have only ever won it at home, FACT
SA in 1995 and NZ in 2011 both won it on their home soil, under some controversy from the rest of the world FACT
So it would be safe to say, or a FACT, that Aussie teams struggle to complete consistantly at club level on the world stage, but rise to the occasion with the ultimate prize at stake !!!!
Posted 00:42 29th May 2012
Trader2 says...
No response from Trinats re the number of games Oz teams have won outside Oz, it really makes his assertions that NZ teams can only win at home a nonsense. Trinats we all know that you like to think you are a windup merchant, however with any windup there has to actually be some factual background to the windup and quite frankly mate you dont't score too highly there. So try and emmulate the Red's and up the ante a little however I suspect you are a little like Craig Thomson (apologies to the o/s viewers he is an Oz politician) and you are starting to believe what you actually say. You could say you are successful because you have managed to wind me up but I am just a seeker of truth and balance in these blogs, not umitigated crap.
Posted 15:02 28th May 2012
Trinats2 says...
Ramage:
Bar the Rebels with no cause, each of the games could have gone either way.
Was it the interpretation of the rules by the (home) ref ???
Posted 12:19 28th May 2012
Ramage says...
Why did Walsh have to penalise so often Trinuts was it because of that word you use freely against non OZ teams, Cheating. Saw you predictions this week just as well Im not a betting man cos I would not back you predictions after that result. But hey the world loves a tryer.
Posted 11:18 28th May 2012