{"id":376125,"date":"2026-04-12T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:23:20","slug":"crusaders-v-queensland-reds-super-rugby-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376125\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders v Queensland Reds &#8211; Super Rugby Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JS4IXQ_260307BluesCrusaders_070_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Crusaders halfback Noah Hotham in action against the Blues.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nCrusaders halfback Noah Hotham in action against the Blues.<br \/>\nPhoto: Brett Phibbs\n<\/p>\n<p>The Reds have held on to beat the Crusaders 31 &#8211; 26 in slippery conditions in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders took the lead early thanks to a Christian Lio-Willie try in the fifth minute, but the Reds hit back immediately and scored twice in five minutes, and went into the halftime break with the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The home side scored straight after the break when Tim Ryan crossed the line, before the Crusaders evened things up at 19-all.<\/p>\n<p>The match-winning moment came in the 74th minute when Filipo Daugunu, playing in his 100th Super Rugby match, crashed over to give the Reds the lead.<\/p>\n<p>They would score once more in the 78th minute to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Crusaders snuck a try in the dying moments to at least come away with a bonus point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crusaders halfback Noah Hotham in action against the Blues. Photo: Brett Phibbs The Reds have held on to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-376125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}