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It's this time of the week, RUGBY TIME! Like usual I have decided to sit down and write about the only team I know enough about to write about, the Force. Oh, and of course whoever they play against during the week, which in this case is the Queensland Reds.
It's another Australian derby for the Force against a young Reds team hit by injuries but freshened up by a bye week. Hopefully this will be a firey one, with alot of the Force squad former Queenslanders, a bit of mongrel in both teams will go a long way till making this a good game. Queensland have alot of young talent in thier team with thier captain only being 22. (Horwill)
I will be interested to look at the battle between the flyhalfs and inside centres, and how well they work together. For the Force is Lachlan McKay playing flyhalf and Scott Staniforth playing inside centre. McKay played exceptional last week when he came on at flyhalf and he'd be hoping to do the same this week, he is really turning into a valuable player after his 2 year injury spell. Staniforth is extremely solid as always and will be looking to smash into the Reds backline and causing some havoc. As the two haven't worked together most of the year it is possible the combination will be a bit off and we can see some mistakes in that area of the pitch and I would think that the Reds would target that channel to run down and pressure. On the Reds team we have Quade Cooper and Berrick Barnes, two very exciting players with heaps of potential, if they play a good game, the Reds should look very dangerous indeed, and as they have been playing together most of the year they would by now be able to read each other well.
The Reds have a heavy and a skilled scrum but after quite a few matches against the South African teams the Force should be used to that, expect to see a few Force scrums being dominated by the Reds but all in all the Force managing to neutralise much of the threat as much as they can. The newspapers over in the west have identified the battle between number 8's to be crucial to tonight, Leroy Houston against Richard Brown. Leroy Houston has been playing some good rugby but let's be honest Richard Brown has been immense in most games this season. If the Reds stop him however probably the major attacking threat in the forwards will be eliminated which will let them be able to concentrating on playing rush defence against the Force backs, as we know that is basically the way to beat the Force.
That being said I expect the Force to win comfortably against the Reds, the Reds at the moment look a lot like the Reds last year at the moment, where we absolutely crunched them at Subiaco. Hopefully the Force have been looking at thier backline attack to put some spice into it, besides the Crusaders game despite all the talent it has been pretty bland rugby.
In the trial earlier this year James O'Connor came on late in the game and ran circles around the Reds, let's see if this much hyped youngster can do the same coming off the bench in this game.
It's this time of the week, RUGBY TIME! Like usual I have decided to sit down and write about the only team I know enough about to write about, the Force. Oh, and of course whoever they play against during the week, which in this case is the Queensland Reds.
It's another Australian derby for the Force against a young Reds team hit by injuries but freshened up by a bye week. Hopefully this will be a firey one, with alot of the Force squad former Queenslanders, a bit of mongrel in both teams will go a long way till making this a good game. Queensland have alot of young talent in thier team with thier captain only being 22. (Horwill)
I will be interested to look at the battle between the flyhalfs and inside centres, and how well they work together. For the Force is Lachlan McKay playing flyhalf and Scott Staniforth playing inside centre. McKay played exceptional last week when he came on at flyhalf and he'd be hoping to do the same this week, he is really turning into a valuable player after his 2 year injury spell. Staniforth is extremely solid as always and will be looking to smash into the Reds backline and causing some havoc. As the two haven't worked together most of the year it is possible the combination will be a bit off and we can see some mistakes in that area of the pitch and I would think that the Reds would target that channel to run down and pressure. On the Reds team we have Quade Cooper and Berrick Barnes, two very exciting players with heaps of potential, if they play a good game, the Reds should look very dangerous indeed, and as they have been playing together most of the year they would by now be able to read each other well.
The Reds have a heavy and a skilled scrum but after quite a few matches against the South African teams the Force should be used to that, expect to see a few Force scrums being dominated by the Reds but all in all the Force managing to neutralise much of the threat as much as they can. The newspapers over in the west have identified the battle between number 8's to be crucial to tonight, Leroy Houston against Richard Brown. Leroy Houston has been playing some good rugby but let's be honest Richard Brown has been immense in most games this season. If the Reds stop him however probably the major attacking threat in the forwards will be eliminated which will let them be able to concentrating on playing rush defence against the Force backs, as we know that is basically the way to beat the Force.
That being said I expect the Force to win comfortably against the Reds, the Reds at the moment look a lot like the Reds last year at the moment, where we absolutely crunched them at Subiaco. Hopefully the Force have been looking at thier backline attack to put some spice into it, besides the Crusaders game despite all the talent it has been pretty bland rugby.
In the trial earlier this year James O'Connor came on late in the game and ran circles around the Reds, let's see if this much hyped youngster can do the same coming off the bench in this game.
