The Queensland Reds have burst to life late, two long-range tries sealing a third straight Super Rugby Pacific win after the NSW Waratahs had ground them close to submission.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s Suncorp Stadium clash was a dour affair for almost an hour, before a Carter Gordon double and another dazzling five-pointer for Isaac Henry got the Reds home 26-17.<\/p>\n
Gordon hopped over a would-be tackler in broken play and showed impressive speed to burn around Harry Potter for the match-winner from 55m out with six minutes to play.<\/p>\n
Henry linked up with rampaging winger Filipo Daugunu, who had weaved through traffic after substitute Treyvon Pritchard’s earlier line-break had shaken things up.<\/p>\n
Earlier Gordon finished a play set up by another line-break and flick pass from in-form fullback Jock Campbell.<\/p>\n
Gordon’s bomb in the first half led to a Harry Wilson try as the Test flyhalf, who scored last week’s match-winner against the ACT Brumbies, again showed his wares after a stint in the NRL.<\/p>\n
Down 19-17, Waratahs centre Triston Reilly thought he’d put his men back in front.<\/p>\n
But replays showed his spectacular diving effort was for nothing, with the ball planted on the sideline in the dead-ball area.<\/p>\n
Those highlights came thick and fast after an opening hour dominated by box kicks from Reds scrumhalf Louis Werchon and some rudderless attack at both ends.<\/p>\n
Scores were locked 7-7 at halftime before impressive Tahs hooker Ioane Moananu found the line.<\/p>\n
Potter also scored to put the visitors up by five before the Reds came to life.<\/p>\n
The hosts improved to 3-1 before next Saturday’s trip to Fiji, where they’ve never won, while the Waratahs dropped to 2-2 but showed far more resolve than in their 59-19 loss to the Hurricanes a week ago.<\/p>\n
Charlie Gamble was a late out for the visitors with an injury, replaced by English product and first try-scorer Jamie Adamson.<\/p>\n
Queensland Reds 26\u00a0(Tries: Gordon 2, Wilson, Henry; Cons: Werchon, Campbell 2)\u00a0def NSW Waratahs 17\u00a0(Tries: Adamson, Moananu, Potter; Cons: Harvey)<\/p>\n
Teams<\/p>\n
Reds:\u00a015 Jock Campbell, 14 Filipo Daugunu, 13 Josh Flook, 12 Isaac Henry, 11 Tim Ryan, 10 Carter Gordon, 9 Louis Werchon, 8 Harry Wilson, 7 Fraser McReight (captain), 6 Joe Brial, 5 Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, 4 Seru Uru, 3 Zane Nonggorr, 2 Josh Nasser, 1 Aidan Ross
\n\tReplacements:\u00a016 Richie Asiata, 17 George Blake, 18 Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, 19 Hamish Muller, 20 Vaiuta Latu, 21 Kalani Thomas, 22 Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, 23 Treyvon Pritchard<\/p>\n
Waratahs:\u00a015 James Hendren, 14 Max Jorgensen, 13 Triston Reilly, 12 Joey Walton, 11 Sid Harvey, 10 Jack Debreczeni, 9 Jake Gordon, 8 Pete Samu, 7 Charlie Gamble, 6 Clem Halaholo, 5 Angus Blyth, 4 Matt Philip (captain), 3 Daniel Botha, 2 Ethan Dobbins, 1 Tom Lambert
\n\tReplacements:\u00a016 Ioane Moananu, 17 Isaac Kailea, 18 Siosifa Amone, 19 Miles Amatosero, 20 Leafi Talataina, 21 Teddy Wilson, 22 Lawson Creighton, 23 Harry Potter<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Ben O\u2019Keeffe
\n\tAssistant referees:\u00a0Maggie Cogger-Orr, Warwick Lahmert
\n\tTMO:\u00a0Richard Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queensland Reds have burst to life late, two long-range tries sealing a third straight Super Rugby Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-539920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539920","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=539920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}