Canes run Reds close
1 Mar 2013
Liam Gill guided the Reds to a first victory over the Hurricanes in six years.
The Reds beat the Hurricanes 18 – 12 after leading 11 – 9 at half time.
The match started evenly with penalties being exchanged, before Digby Ioane scored his first try at the Suncorp Stadium in more than 600 days. Rob Simmons, playing in his 50th match, scored on the other side of half time to stretch the Reds’ lead to 9 points.
Beauden Barrett scored the Canes points with four penalties but he missed with three as well.
The Reds’ loose trio lookes the most balanced in the competition, with Liam Gill again impressive.
The Hurricanes finished the stronger and Julian Savea and Conrad Smith combined to come close to scoring in the final minute.
The Canes also had a try denied by the TMO, who ruled a knock on two phases back.
Smith clashed several times with referee Steve Walsh and afterwards described the match as one of the strangest he had played. He said he did not understand a lot of the referee interpretations but did not blame that for the defeat.
He felt the Canes would score and the points would come and was as frustrated in the inability to convert chances into points, as he was with Walsh’s officiating.
Reds captain James Slipper credited the spirit within the squad for the courageous defence to deny the Canes in the final five minutes.
By Richard Ferguson
115 Comments
1 Mar 2013, 12:13 pm
Tipped Hurricanes in this one.
1 Mar 2013, 12:26 pm
Tough game ahead.
canes by 0.5
1 Mar 2013, 12:28 pm
Had the Tah’s by 5, something good happened.
Canes by 8
Go Hurricanes
1 Mar 2013, 12:28 pm
Cane
Confession, I’m wearing a canes jersey. Lost a bet. Enough said.
1 Mar 2013, 12:28 pm
Go Reds!!!
Don’t mess it up for me now.
Reds by 8.
1 Mar 2013, 12:29 pm
The Leads are stuffed!
1 Mar 2013, 12:31 pm
@cane-2:
Good luck mate!
And to you too, Hurricane!
1 Mar 2013, 12:34 pm
@CSI:Rugby-4:
Be loud be proud.
1 Mar 2013, 12:35 pm
Bolsheviks 6. Good Guys 3.
1 Mar 2013, 12:35 pm
@nama1-5:
snap
1 Mar 2013, 12:38 pm
Brads knocks one through for the Good Guys.
6 all.
1 Mar 2013, 12:38 pm
This turning into a kicking fest. Where all the famed rugby artistry from the famous running rugby protagonists ?
1 Mar 2013, 12:46 pm
Barrett won’t miss this one.
1 Mar 2013, 12:47 pm
The Criminals are very good at dragging the opposition down to their level. The Leads are criminals! QED This game may be ordinary, particularly as the ref is a schooner short of a keg. The easiest way to beat the Oz is to send them a few kegs at half-time.
1 Mar 2013, 12:48 pm
The ref just counted up to one and lost his count!
1 Mar 2013, 12:49 pm
Good try Digby.
1 Mar 2013, 12:50 pm
Digby, the best Kiwi in the Wobblies.
1 Mar 2013, 12:50 pm
Sheeez, if the Canes win here, I will be 3/3
Comparing that with last week’s ‘stumbling’…….. not that shabby.
Butmightymoses, aren’t the Blues just shining bright.
1 Mar 2013, 12:52 pm
The Oz franchises and the Wobblies should be re-branded as mi hou tao (Kiwi Fruits), but not necessarily ***
1 Mar 2013, 12:54 pm
g=a=y
1 Mar 2013, 12:55 pm
George Lucas has gone to the dark side.
1 Mar 2013, 12:57 pm
Canes giving away silly penalties.
1 Mar 2013, 12:57 pm
The Julian Assange law; Illegal entry!
1 Mar 2013, 12:59 pm
Sheez the Leads almost scrummed but they cheated.
1 Mar 2013, 13:00 pm
@nama1-5:.Come on Reds, I had an atrocious start to this week’s superbru. No improvement whatsoever on last week’s disastrous picks. I must seriously learn to respect the home teams. Hopefully I will make up ground with a Stormers win later on.
1 Mar 2013, 13:07 pm
Is it true that all the Kiwis playing in Oz are not mercenaries but merely playing for the money? The Wannabies get paid twice what All Blacks get paid.
1 Mar 2013, 13:07 pm
Think Eaton needs a spell. Hes having a shocker.
1 Mar 2013, 13:11 pm
@AiDoc
Not sure about Aussie players getting more, Kiwi top line players are on really good coin, and I mean really good.
1 Mar 2013, 13:12 pm
“The game hangs upon the edge of a knife”.
Gandalf the White.
1 Mar 2013, 13:15 pm
Bit of a boring business this isn’t it. Almost as boring as the famous north vs southrrugby derby witnessed in Jacaranda stadium last weekend.
1 Mar 2013, 13:16 pm
Seems like the 5seconds rule @ ruck time does not apply in australia.
1 Mar 2013, 13:18 pm
@skopdiekan-30:
And the Coastal arm wrestle to be played tomorrow.
SANZAR should have the Aus and SA sides play the Thursday and only after that the NZ sides.
Keep the best for last I say.
1 Mar 2013, 13:19 pm
Go Reds
1 Mar 2013, 13:23 pm
26 Aidoc
All Aussie players salaries are regulated by a salary cap. Total team has to fit under 4.2 million.
1 Mar 2013, 13:23 pm
Yep, Eaton needs a spell.
1 Mar 2013, 13:23 pm
@nortierd-32:
The ref can only count up to one.
1 Mar 2013, 13:24 pm
What the hell gone wrong with this kiwi scrum the powder puff reds just shoved them off their own ball?
1 Mar 2013, 13:27 pm
@AiDoc-36:
‘Ol Walshie
Best of both worlds for a NZ v Aus game.
Hope the camera stuck to his head hasn’t got a bloodshot lens to go with his eyes.
1 Mar 2013, 13:28 pm
That scrum was better. The Leads are trying to be Bumblies.
1 Mar 2013, 13:29 pm
I think I prefer the Bruise
1 Mar 2013, 13:30 pm
Barrett having a poor game by his normally aspiring standards must be some abo voodoo upsetting his radar and reflexes.
1 Mar 2013, 13:30 pm
What happened there???
1 Mar 2013, 13:32 pm
And Reds burrow over. Good old fashion MckenzIe blighty rugby showing the way through the barn door.
1 Mar 2013, 13:33 pm
One can tackle in the air??
1 Mar 2013, 13:33 pm
Eaton should have come off at half time.
1 Mar 2013, 13:33 pm
@nortierd-38:
It uses the bottom of a vodka bottle as a lens.
1 Mar 2013, 13:34 pm
Does the 5 second rule apply in this game?
1 Mar 2013, 13:37 pm
I think old Walshy has finally converted to a tried and tested staunch Aussie accomplice his bailout Brisbane antics aren’t even half camouflaged anymore
1 Mar 2013, 13:37 pm
Well done Reds. Bru looking good now!
1 Mar 2013, 13:39 pm
Ok there’s one back for the old country give and take long as it equal out right side of the coin in the end
1 Mar 2013, 13:43 pm
Even Kearnsey reckons the ref is a schooner short of a keg!!!!
1 Mar 2013, 13:44 pm
10 to go,
canes still in with a great show.
1 Mar 2013, 13:45 pm
Now Walsh evens up?
1 Mar 2013, 13:45 pm
Now if that ain’t a home town bailout decision by the Walsh Waltzing Wagoner then I dunno wtf is anymore
Stevie gone and sold his soul to his paymasters for couple bags of silver look likes that how it cutting here.
1 Mar 2013, 13:45 pm
The posts have hard ons. Keep blocking the balls.
1 Mar 2013, 13:47 pm
Walsh is an assimilated criminal.
1 Mar 2013, 13:48 pm
Is he Irish?
1 Mar 2013, 13:49 pm
Canes finishing much stronger wonder if Walshy gonna be able to legitimately bring his Brisbane bro’ s home
1 Mar 2013, 13:49 pm
Walsh imo has murdered this game. I was looking forward to an open running rugby affair.
1 Mar 2013, 13:51 pm
And I thought the Canes were Keo’s favourites to win the tournament?
Go figure.
1 Mar 2013, 13:51 pm
nail bitting stuff.
1 Mar 2013, 13:52 pm
bitting = biting.
1 Mar 2013, 13:52 pm
KNock on my ***!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 Mar 2013, 13:53 pm
The Leads are plumbing!!
1 Mar 2013, 13:55 pm
Come on Reds hold on.
1 Mar 2013, 13:56 pm
This is the worst officiating since Whiney Barnes or any Irish referee!
1 Mar 2013, 13:57 pm
How’s that Walshy to the reds rescue once again this starting to look ominously embarrassing to any non partisan rugby fanatics looking in
1 Mar 2013, 13:57 pm
Jeez no offloads in the tackle so far with 8 to go, that’s unlike any NZ side
1 Mar 2013, 13:58 pm
Deadset, Walsh, let the boys play. Killed what could have been an open game.
1 Mar 2013, 13:58 pm
C’mon the Canes FFS. Have them by 1…….
Please……win this.
1 Mar 2013, 13:59 pm
Thanx QC you boofhead!!
1 Mar 2013, 13:59 pm
Could this be…………………….?
1 Mar 2013, 14:00 pm
QC a poor man’s Spencer!!
1 Mar 2013, 14:00 pm
Reds plugging holes all 30 thumbs plus an extra 2 by ref wasn’t enough to keep the **** from busting open eventually
1 Mar 2013, 14:02 pm
So what tmo gonna give another reds bailout ?
1 Mar 2013, 14:02 pm
No. Suckpants. C’mon Canes…….
1 Mar 2013, 14:02 pm
@AiDoc-73: What did he do?
@skopdiekan-74: Canes score?
1 Mar 2013, 14:02 pm
This game is not for Canes to win
1 Mar 2013, 14:03 pm
Walsh has to go!!!!
1 Mar 2013, 14:04 pm
Great pass! Walsh extricate that
1 Mar 2013, 14:05 pm
Hang ten…..HG has not started warming up yet. There is still hope… I have seen the Canes win in the dying seconds more than once in the past…..
1 Mar 2013, 14:05 pm
This the ultimate collusion of cockup crooked officiating I think I seen in SR yet and they say rugby ain’t a bookies dream
1 Mar 2013, 14:05 pm
1 and a half to go.
1 Mar 2013, 14:07 pm
Last throw of the dice Canes and they manage to fck it up
Well done Walshie MoM performance that
1 Mar 2013, 14:07 pm
F#** Canes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid handling mistakes
1 Mar 2013, 14:07 pm
82 Skop
Much like the home refs in the republic hey?
1 Mar 2013, 14:08 pm
Hard luck Cane
Next time mate
Walsh u muppet
1 Mar 2013, 14:08 pm
What stupid play from the Canes scrummy, bloody AAAgent!!!
1 Mar 2013, 14:08 pm
lekker reds!! 6 points is close enough… had them at 8 for the bru.
1 Mar 2013, 14:09 pm
The poor officiating continues.
1 Mar 2013, 14:09 pm
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1 Mar 2013, 14:10 pm
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1 Mar 2013, 14:10 pm
So far 3/3.
Had reds by 5
Blues by 8
Tahs by 10
1 Mar 2013, 14:12 pm
Eaton plays better with his trailer trash look.
1 Mar 2013, 14:16 pm
@CSI:Rugby-87:
Them’s the breaks.
We had the opportunity. But just could not put da Reds away.
Full and unreserved credit to the Reds for stoutly defending their line.
Neither of these two Teams look like Championship material.
But that won’t stop me hoping.
l
1 Mar 2013, 14:18 pm
@wallabie.-93: Great stuff
Had reds by 7
Blues by 5
Tahs by 10
1 Mar 2013, 14:18 pm
@cane-95: Dude what the hell has happened to Perenara and Taylor? Losing me SERIOUS fantasy points. I really thought the Canes would cook this year…
1 Mar 2013, 14:19 pm
Eaton, Franks, Perenara, Barrett, Bateman, Taylor, Leiua all had **** to below average games. Savea, Smith, Toomaga-Allen, Shields, Vito outstanding.
Canes backs were way too flat, nullified by Reds rush defence.
1 Mar 2013, 14:20 pm
@CSI:Rugby-98: Vito played well? Perhaps I should buy him… Would you recommend Shields or Vito? Considering Shields will be cheaper.
1 Mar 2013, 14:23 pm
Bagel
Shields was outstanding. My MVP for a losing side. He is a legit out and out footballer.
1 Mar 2013, 14:26 pm
@Bagel-97:
I thought next year would be “Our Year”.
But I agree wholeheartedly, Taylor and Perenara, Our Aces in The Hole. Had little or effect on the game.
But that’s all part of the game.
1 Mar 2013, 14:28 pm
I’m not loving that NZ are able to field 5 top super rugby teams and we’re struggeling, only 1 more than Australia.
1 Mar 2013, 14:29 pm
@catchlightuk.com-102: ‘we’re struggeling to field 2′
1 Mar 2013, 14:29 pm
@Bagel-97: tj sat out half of the year with a broken ankle
1 Mar 2013, 14:31 pm
Richard
A first really balanced post match report in years. First time in awhile it was more about facts than opinion. To be applauded!
Well done and great job.
1 Mar 2013, 14:31 pm
Richard
A first really balanced post match report in years. First time in awhile it was more about facts than opinion. To be applauded!
Well done and great job.
1 Mar 2013, 14:31 pm
@catchlightuk.com-102: I’d like to think the Kings are the only team that will get pasted this year (although I really hope not). Cheetahs will hopefully finished mid-lower table with the rest in the upper half.
South African SuperRugby has been great over the last couple of years (barring the awful Lions), it’s a shame we haven’t translated it to the Bok’s performances bar 2009.
1 Mar 2013, 14:34 pm
@Transformation-104: Think I’ll stick with him. Canes have to come right soon…
1 Mar 2013, 14:55 pm
@Bagel-108: you might wanna switch to TKB if u can afford him
1 Mar 2013, 15:08 pm
@Transformation-109: He doesn’t even start Transie.
1 Mar 2013, 15:14 pm
@Transformation-109: Pull yourself together man…
1 Mar 2013, 15:30 pm
what’s wrong with him?
1 Mar 2013, 18:16 pm
@AiDoc-91: @skopdiekan-82: Ease up okes, it was a knock-on. Clear as daylight.
As much as I would like to see Canes to win, I am not blind.
1 Mar 2013, 22:54 pm
@polaris-113: agreed, was clear as daylight..
Hurri, cane, unlucky boys… still early days in the comp. Always a hard place to win in Brissy.
3 Mar 2013, 10:06 am
Butterfinger Canes
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