Super Rugby: Reds Season Preview with Will Genia & Ed Quirk
by Paul Cook -
With Ewen McKenzie moving onto the international coaching stage with the Wallabies, Richard Graham steps up to take the reins as Reds head coach after a year of getting his feet under the door under McKenzie’s stewardship. A crushing loss to the Crusaders in the first play-off round last year has led to some soul searching at Ballymore in the off-season as to how they go about recapturing the glories of their title year in 2011.
Struggling for tries in 2013, there’s been a heavy focus on attack on the training paddock and a renewed mission statement to entertain will be music to the ears of the Reds faithful. Older heads Radike Samo and Adam Wallace-Harrison have now departed but with a batch of promising young talent waiting to be unleashed onto the Super Rugby scene and Quade Cooper firmly back in the groove, the Reds could once again become everyone’s second team.
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