Another dull Aussie derby, or will this game provide some decent entertainment?
The Force are looking like a poor team getting steadily worse, while the Reds are actually on the up.
Will the Force’s legendary home ground disadvantage make this an easy 5 points for the Reds? Or will the young Queenslanders lose out to a bit of Giteau magic?
And how will Stu Dickenson decide which side to blow in favour of, seeing as both teams are Aussies?
Kick-off in Perth is at 13h05 SA time.
Force – 15 Drew Mitchell, 14 Scott Staniforth, 13 Ryan Cross, 12 James O’Connor, 11 Nick Cummins, 10 Matt Giteau, 9 Josh Valentine, 8 Richard Brown, 7 David Pocock, 6 Matt Hodgson, 5 Nathan Sharpe (capt), 4 Tom Hockings, 3 Ben Castle, 2 Tai McIsaac, 1 Pek Cowan.
Subs: 16 Luke Holmes, 17 AJ Whalley, 18 Sam Wykes, 19 Tamaiti Horua, 20 Chris O’Young, 21 Junior Pelesasa, 22 Haig Sare.
Reds – 15 Mark McLinden, 14 Blair Connor, 13 Digby Ioane, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Rod Davies, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Ben Lucas, 8 Leroy Houston, 7 Daniel Braid, 6 Hugh McMeniman, 5 James Horwill (capt), 4 Van Humphries, 3 Laurie Weeks, 2 Sean Hardman, 1 Ben Daley.
Subs: 16 Saia Faingaa, 17 Jack Kennedy, 18 Scott Higginbotham, 19 Ezra Taylor, 20 Brendan McKibbin, 21 Anthony Faingaa, 22 Charlie Fetoai.
Ref: Stu Dickenson
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Go Force. 🙄
@McLovin (Comment 1) :
I just wanted to say that!!!! 😆
Picked Force but a draw would be perfect…
I don’t want ANY Australians to win today… 😈
Go REDS!!! 🙂 I HAD 2 pick Cheetas for my LMS. Hope 4 an upset there!
Go Reds. Might not be such a dull game if the youngster from the Reds get going
I picked the Reds… they just have so much more class all round than the Farce do
I also picked the Reds!!! 😎
hadn’t realised this had started… almost 20 minutes in.
3-0 to the Force
does anybody watch this game ?
James O’Connor straight through and scores the opening try
10-zip to the Force
go reds, man this is bad friday, feeling flu-ish and ive got to work till 4pm, 2hr 30mins left.
@rekinek (Comment 9) : i do
http://www.justin.tv/live24rugby/popout
if the force win this one, ill be of on another bad trip to SB hell
@JarsonX (tantric shark) (Comment 12) : some would say – lucky you 😛
try number 2 to Force…Cummins. Damit, the Reds just don’t want to tackle
@robdylan (Comment 13) : 😎
17-0 now
@robdylan (Comment 17) : not sure whether reds do tackle – they usually just run
half time looms
@rekinek (Comment 20) : fair point 🙂 🙂
Iaone held up over the line on the stroke of half time
Aus won the toss and are batting.
Reds not controlling their breakdowns.
20-0 now… one way traffic
Reds not catching 2 many up-n-unders. Not tackling! Only thing they ARE getting right is the heartburn they’re causing me
@robdylan (Comment 26) : i have Force by 5 on SB – come on reds – do sth
yellow card to Higginbotham
@rekinek (Comment 28) : careful wot you wish for! I have Reds by 5.
@McLovin (Comment 24) :
I get the hint! Give me a few secs… 😉
Reds staring down the barrel of a PK here
@wpw (Comment 31) : 😎
i chose force by 6 😳
what did i do to deserve this, most teams lose the games theyre suppose to win, next week im picking the weakest teams on SB, EXCEPT the Sharks, that pick is made by my heart-allways
cricket thread up… 😉
27-0 now… I PICKED THE RED TO WIN 🙁
3rd try was scored by Horua
@robdylan (Comment 37) : on SB or LMS ❓
I are having picked the Forces on LMS. 😎
@rekinek (Comment 39) : SB
Cross just scored the BP try
and now the Reds start to fight back! Try to Connor
man – each side has a young player named either Connor or O’Connor… this is bloody difficult to follow 🙂
32-7
time??
man, I can’t believe this same team stuffed the Sharks… it will go down in history as one of our most embarrassing days…
try number 5
scored by Haig “Glass Jaw” Sare
39-7
@robdylan (Comment 46) :
Can’t believe it either…what happened to us that day?
@robdylan (Comment 46) : @blackshark (Comment 50) : Remember that the result did not have an influenced on the log that day… 😉
@Charlie (Comment 51) : nor on this day… log updated and this result really hasn’t helped either team overly…
@blackshark (Comment 50) :
we lost?? 🙄 😆
@robdylan (Comment 52) :
@robdylan (Comment 6) : @wpw (Comment 7) : @Pokkel (Comment 5) : Superbru is a bitch