Top teams having a few rough results in the past few weeks seem to be a recurring theme, with the exception of the Stormers, all the other conference leading teams have been losing. The Reds need to shake off their surprise loss against the Brumbies last weekend and have to beat the Force to keep the lead at the top of the overall table.
The Force have been impressive in the last few weeks, beating the Highlanders last weekend, drawing with the Brumbies and coming close to beating the Hurricanes, and will hold no punches in this Aussie derby.
This game kicks off at 14h05 and I predict a narrow victory for the Reds.
Western Force :1. Kieran Longbottom,2. Nathan Charles,3. Matt Dunning,4. Sam Wykes,5. Nathan Sharpe,6. Matt Hodgson,7. David Pocock,8. Richard Brown,9. Brett Sheehan,10. James Stannard,11. David Smith,12. Rory Sidey,13. Patrick Dellit,14. Nick Cummins,15. James O’Connor
Reserves:16. Ben Whittaker,17. Tim Fairbrother,18. Tom Hockings,19. Ben McCalman,20. Mark Swanepoel,21. Mitch Inman,22. Alfie Mafi
Reds :1. Ben Daley , 2. Saia Faingaa , 3. James Slipper , 4. Rob Simmons , 5. James Horwill (c) , 6. Scott Higginbotham , 7. Liam Gill , 8. Radike Samo , 9. Will Genia , 10. Quade Cooper , 11. Rod Davies , 12. Ben Tapuai , 13. Will Chambers , 14. Luke Morahan , 15. Jono Lance
Replacements :16. James Hanson,17. Greg Holmes,18. Adam Wallace-Harrison,19. Jake Schatz,20. Ben Coridas,21. Ian Prior,22. Dom Shipperley
Match Officials
Referee: Stuart Dickinson
Assistant referees: Nathan Pearce, Julian Pritchard
Television match official: George Ayoub
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Got Reds by 9.
GO FORCE!!!!!!!!
I have a feeling this will be a bore-a-thon. 🙁
@KSA Shark © (Comment 2) : Have the same feeling 😕
28. Teams taking the field. Reds no15 Jono Lance is making his debut.
FOOOOOOOOOOOOO (take a breath) OOOOOOOOOOOOORCE!!!!!!!
Force kicks off and gets the ball back.
26. Reds penalty 47m out. O’Connor gets it.
Force 3 – 0 Reds
2mins
Guys the South African that is contracted to the Rebels, don’t remember his name. Has he played for them yet?
@Ben (Comment 8) : JP du Plessis, I think. And no, I don’t think he has.
@McLovin (Comment 5) : hallow dude, welcom to the day 🙂
Reds concedes their 3rd penalty within 4 mins.
Go Force. 😎
With Tahs winning with a bonus point, that has now put pressure on Sharks. We will have to win this game probably with a bonus point.
@Puma (Comment 12) : Meant – Win our game later.
@McLovin (Comment 5) : and thanks for the breath, hope nobody buggers up an thread today….. 🙂
Force penalty, right in front, 5m out. Opts for a scrum.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 9) : Yes that’s him thanks.
Sidey try!
Is this gonna be an upset?????
Conversion missed!
Force 8 – 0 Reds
7mins
Well if the reds loose 2 and the stormers loose 2 the sharks can still end up on top of the global log 🙂 🙂 🙂
20. Cooper intercept try from 80 out!
Come on the Force !
Converted
Force 8 – 7 Reds
13mins
18. Davies off injured.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 3) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 2) : sofar sogood, not so boring afterall
Sidey try! Again!
@franshark (Comment 25) : Agree
O’ Connor misses again.
Force 13 – 7 Reds
22mins
O’ Connor and Lambi could have been brothers… 😉
Sharpe injured – ankle it seems. Subbed.
@franshark (Comment 29) : Why? I think O’Connor and Justin Bieber could have been brothers.
Sharp comming off with injurie, must say after the incedent within the sharks game earlier I have no respect for this man anymore 👿
Penalty Reds. Cooper misses.
Force 13 – 7 Reds
27mins
@franshark (Comment 10) : Thanks, keeping a low profile. 🙂
12. Higgenbottom in the corner!
Higgenbotham is in my team!
@McLovin (Comment 34) : Stormers are favourites, you should be boasting 😉
@franshark (Comment 32) : Huh? What happened again?
10. Try converted.
Force 13 – 14 Reds
31mins
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 37) : Not yet. 😈
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 21) : Starting XV Captain!!!!
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 35) : Starting XV.
😎 😎 😎
Penalty Force. O’ Connor tries again and it’s over!
Force 16 – 14 Reds
33mins
@KSA Shark © (Comment 41) : Booo! 😈
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 42) : Starting XV.
@Ben (Comment 38) : one of them made the worse speartackle I’ve ever seen and then he said to the ref “now u f*#/)d*p the game” by giving them a yellow card 👿
I have quite a few kickers on the fields this week
Cruden
Cooper
O’connor
Giteau
Lambie
Steyn
@franshark (Comment 45) : Wasn’t it a red card?
Why has Swanepoel been demoted to the bench??
@Ben (Comment 47) : ja might have been, I almost lost all my marbels then and there..
Break time over 🙁
Later all. Make sure we have Sharks commentary please? I’ll be stuck at work.
@franshark (Comment 49) : Pretty sure it was a red. Think it was Rory Sidey.
HALFTIME
Force 16 – 14 Reds
@KSA Shark © (Comment 50) : well do.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 52) : half time came quickly…
@Ben (Comment 48) : Sheehan has always been the 1st choice 🙁 Swanepoel only played starting 9 while Sheehan was injured.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 46) : I cant even manage 4 🙁
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 52) : Congrats on the 10k in 6 comments time.
I won’t be here when it happens. 🙁
@franshark (Comment 54) : 5. It did. Really not boring at all.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 56) : I’m lucky that Cruden and O’connor aren’t flyhalves.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 57) : Thanks
@KSA Shark © (Comment 59) : Something I’ll be having a look at next time round 💡
@KSA Shark © (Comment 50) : Might be difficult for me. Entertaining, watching the Sharks and the obligatory beer runs . . . busy afternoon! 🙁
Penalty Reds, Cooper gets it over.
Force 16 – 17 Reds
42mins
ooh just woke up, go force!
Another Penaly to the Reds in striking distance. Cooper hooks it.
Force 16 – 17 Reds
48mins
Cooper kicks it to B field 🙂
Come on Force! 😛
@franshark (Comment 65) : How many points do I get for that? 😈
26mins remaining.
@Original Pierre (Comment 67) : uh non 🙁
@Original Pierre (Comment 67) : Less 1 point for every metre away from the posts. That was about 4m. 😈
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 68) : go read the other thread…. Not gonna say it again 🙂
@franshark (Comment 71) : Thanks
Force 16 – 17 Reds
60 mins
The game is a bit tedious now. 15mins remaining.
Need a penalty or try to get a margin point. But I’ll love a Force win just as much.
Pocock in the corner!
pococks a machine
The TMO agrees with me and O’Connor misses the conversion.
Force 21 – 17 Reds
68mins
5 min to go
Force 21 – 17 Reds
75mins
Hang on Force!! 😐
210 sec’s to go.
Shyte!!
Was probably too much to ask from the Wors anyhow. 🙄
Go Chiefs! (next week).
Great pass by cooper
Shipperley try. Cooper converts!
Force 21 – 24 Reds
79mins
FULLTIME
FORCE 21 – 24 REDS
80MINS
FULL TIME
Reds 24 – 21 Force
Close game
I just miss the margin point. 🙁
Now for the real game 🙂
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 91) : On the topic of total comments made, who is racheltjiedebeer?
@Ben (Comment 93) : me
@Ben (Comment 93) : I think she saved her brother by giving her own live 🙂
@McLovin (Comment 94) : 😆
@franshark (Comment 96) : He’s not joking. 🙂
You can only see her name when on a phone though, from a PC it shows as McLovin.