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New Reds Recruit?

We have our sauces January 10, 2011 36

UPDATE: Due to the flooding Reds training was called off yesterday and Reg’s house is also being effected by the flooding. Our thoughts are with Reg, his family and everyone affected by what’s happening

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A RWC Wallaby Retrospective: 1995 vs 2011!

Noddy July 9, 2010 7

Where were we in 94: Even though the IRB rankings didn’t really come into effect until somewhere around 2003, if you apply the same formula historically, as Pick and Go does so well, you

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At my signal, unleash hell!

Noddy March 8, 2010 16

So were the inspirational words spoken by Russel Crowe as Maximus, one of cinema’s greatest ‘Rebels’, in the Oscar winning moving “Gladiator”.  Rod McQueen could hardly be confused for Crowe, nor a Gladiator, and

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Broke, Blooming and Bringing Back the Biff

Roscoe Tims March 7, 2010 6

‘Better red than dead’ was the saying in the 1940s when red stood for a socialist dictatorship of the proletariat and consequent violent regime change. Locally, the revolution over recent weeks has been the

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Oz Super 14 coaches: a force multiplier?

Roscoe Tims February 8, 2010 3

In military parlance, a force multiplier is an asset that increases your ability to succeed in the violence of the battlefield. Transposed to rugby it is the people, strategies, innovation and organisation that you

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Trials: Trick or Treat?

Roscoe Tims January 21, 2010 10

It only seems like yesterday that we were wiping the sleep from our eyes, cranking up the laptops and watching the G&GR live blog from Kingsholme as the Dirties took on Glos? And isn’t it

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Preview: Tahs vs Reds Trial

Moses January 20, 2010 3

The Super 14 trial match and between the NSW Waratahs and the Queensland Reds sees the Round 1 opponents going head to head in the far northern NSW town of Lismore. As is the

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I see Red people!

Scott Bryant December 10, 2009 11

The Reds took their first tentative steps toward the launch of the 2010 season by unveiling their new kit for next year. It was rumoured to be something a bit different, and indeed it

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Ex-AFL Exec new QRU CEO, OK?

Noddy October 16, 2009 11

Coming quickly on the back of the Victorian born Ewen McKenzie appointment as the new coach of the Queensland Reds, the QRU appointed another Victorian to a key position. Jim Carmichael, 49, will start

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McKenzie Links with Reds

Scott Bryant October 9, 2009 8

Finally some positive news out of Ballymore as Ewen McKenzie was today announced as Head Coach of the Reds for the next three seasons. After a year that started badly for the Reds, then

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