{"id":174558,"date":"2025-09-28T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174558\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T06:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:27:07","slug":"western-force-finish-super-rugby-aus-regular-season-against-queensland-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174558\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Force finish Super Rugby AUS regular season against Queensland Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Western Force will be out to send a message as they face the Queensland Reds at Tompkins Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Force are locked into the Final against the NSW Waratahs after sweeping through the opening two rounds of Super Rugby AUS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@rugbycomau\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">WATCH BELOW FROM 4:40 pm AEST\/2:40 pm AWST LIVE and on-demand on Rugby.com.au.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Wallaby Ben Donaldson will get his chance to shine, named to start at flyhalf as Max Burey shifts to fullback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">As for the Reds, their finals hopes ended following the Waratahs&#8217; win over the ACT Brumbies on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Matt Faessler skippers the side, with young guns Trevor King and utility back Will McCulloch set for their first taste of action via the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The entire competition will be broadcast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/rugbycomau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">live and free via the rugby.com.au YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby.com.au\/match-centre\/14eefe74e0cf57378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"css-tm001h\">Click here for the Force-Reds MATCH CENTRE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sunday September 28 2:30pm AWST \u2013 Force v Reds at Tompkins Park, Perth, ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">FORCE (1-15):\u00a0Marley Pearce, Albert Alcock, Tiaan Tauakipulu, Mitch Watts, Darcy Swain (c), Will Harris, Jack Daly, Vaiolini Ekuasi; Henry Robertson, Ben Donaldson, Mac Grealy, Kurtley Beale, George Poolman, Henry Palmer, Max Burey<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Wes Thomas, Max Sawers, Sean Paranihi, Reed Prinsep, Titi Nofoagatotoa, Issak Fines-Leleiwasa, Viliami Fine, Boston Fakafanua<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">REDS (1-15):\u00a0Sef Fa&#8217;agase, Matt Faessler (c, Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, Hamish Muller, Seru Uru, Joe Brial, Tom Robinson, Vaiuta Latu, Kalani Thomas, Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, Tim Ryan, Dre Pakeho, Josh Flook (vc), Xavier Rubens, Heremaia Murray<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Replacements:\u00a0Theo Fourie, George Blake, Trevor King, Charlie Brosnan, Kohan Herbert, James Martens, Will Cartwright, Will McCulloch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force will be out to send a message as they face the Queensland Reds at Tompkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,12061,760,85,69535,11229],"class_list":["post-174558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-queensland-reds","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-aus","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}