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Reds end 10-year drought with 'unbelievable' boilover - CtrlF.XYZ

Reds end 10-year drought with 'unbelievable' boilover

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The Queensland Reds person caused the boilover of the Super Rugby season, ending a decade-long drought by stunning the ladder-leading Waikato Chiefs.

The Chiefs came into the contention arsenic red-hot favourites having won their archetypal 10 matches to commencement the season, but were shocked arsenic the Queenslanders ran retired 25-22 winners.

After a Tom Lynagh punishment gave the Reds a three-point lead, they were forced to excavation heavy to stave disconnected 1 last propulsion from the Chiefs successful the dying seconds.

The New Zealanders enactment unneurotic 27 phases earlier Tyrone Thompson was held up successful extremity to springiness Queensland the win.

Reds observe their stunning victory. (Andy Jackson via Getty Images)

"It's unbelievable," Reds skipper Tate McDermott said aft the win.

"We've had a beauteous mediocre season, truthful to travel down present and enactment connected a show, I'm conscionable truthful arrogant of the boys. Obviously we were monolithic underdogs and coming disconnected a beauteous mediocre effect past week. It means everything.

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"We've ever conscionable lacked the polish. Discipline's been a bloody Achilles bottommost for us, but contiguous we conscionable enactment it away.

"We defended similar a battalion of dogs. We turned up for each different and that's each I tin inquire of this group."

James O'Connor and Filipo Daugunu. (Andy Jackson via Getty Images)

Chiefs skipper Luke Jacobson was near bitterly disappointed aft the archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season, and lamented a dilatory commencement to the 2nd fractional which saw Jock Campbell people a effort 4 minutes aft the restart.

"We knew the Reds were going to travel retired and springiness america their all," helium said.

"Nobody likes losing, it's frustrating. I deliberation we've got heavy attraction for this team, each 1 of us, truthful erstwhile we bash suffer it bloody hurts. I deliberation immoderate squad should beryllium similar that.

"We came retired successful the 2nd fractional and didn't commencement however we wanted to. If we came retired beardown we could've solved a batch of problems, but we didn't. They came retired and they scored archetypal and it was a spot of a snowball effect from there."

The triumph was the Reds' archetypal implicit the Chiefs connected New Zealand ungraded and ended a streak of 21 consecutive losses successful New Zealand for the club, the longest by an Australian squad since Super Rugby's inception successful 1996.

Etene Nanai-Seturo scored a treble for the Chiefs, including a superb intercept try, portion Samipeni Finau gave the Chiefs a sniff with a 73rd infinitesimal effort earlier helium was stretchered disconnected successful the last minutes pursuing a brutal caput knock.

McDermott was 1 of 4 try-scorers for the Reds with George Blake (12'), Campbell (44') and Zane Nonggorr (56') besides hitting the scoreboard.

The Reds volition instrumentality location adjacent week to look the Auckland Blues, portion the Chiefs volition big the Hurricanes.

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