Reds slapped with Super Rugby 'reality check'

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The Queensland Reds were slapped with a circular 1 world cheque connected Saturday night, blown distant successful the 2nd fractional by the high octane Hurricanes successful Townsville.

The Reds lone trailed 16-13 astatine halftime but were held scoreless aft the interruption arsenic the Hurricanes scored 5 of their six tries to implicit an emphatic 47-13 win.

Wallabies manager Eddie Jones was successful the Queensland Bank Stadium stands for the archetypal trans-Tasman clash of the Super Rugby Pacific season, and would person been acrophobic astatine the gulf betwixt the sides.

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Aumua exposes Reds up the middle

The 28 grade vigor and sapping humidity was expected to favour Brad Thorn's broadside but the Wellington-based Kiwis coped with the conditions amended overall.

The Hurricanes' seat interaction proved decisive, with dynamic hooker Asafo Aumua the prime of them.

"This is simply a large stroke for Brad Thorn successful circular one," Reds fable Tim Horan said connected Stan Sport.

"A spot of psyche searching to bash for the Reds," added erstwhile Queensland skipper James Horwill.

"It's a spot of a breached record. They're evidently alert that they springiness distant penalties, they springiness distant anserine yellowish cards... it comes backmost to trusting your teammates."

Things were looking promising aboriginal erstwhile Reds debutant Tom Lynagh sent a cross-field footwear to the close borderline which resulted successful the game's archetypal effort to Jordan Petaia.

Lynagh, with arrogant begetter Michael watching on, had his kicking boots connected with 2 penalties and a conversion though helium missed the tackle for Billy Proctor's try.

"It was the archetypal clip dada has watched maine play successful Australia," Lynagh told Stan Sport.

"Pretty peculiar infinitesimal for me, I'll retrieve this for a long, agelong time."

Horwill was impressed with the 19-year-old's composure.

"The entity is the bounds for him."

The Reds indispensable present reset for a March 5 clash with the Force successful Melbourne's Super Round.

Fixing a wobbly scrum volition beryllium the archetypal priority.

"They've seen the world without Taniela Tupou successful the scrum," Morgan Turinui said.

Cam Roigard, Jamie Booth, Julian Savea and Tyrel Lomax scored 2nd fractional tries for the rampant Hurricanes, who were besides rewarded a punishment effort from a rolling maul.

Forwards Ryan Smith and Seru Uru were yellowish carded either broadside of halftime.

"I conjecture for us, astir apt a spot of a world check," Reds skipper Tate McDermott said.

"At slightest we cognize wherever we are present and we've got to get backmost connected the horse. So precise disappointing. A spot of a breached grounds for us, really, subject and not holding the shot and besides not making tackles."

HURRICANES 47 (Billy Proctor effort 31min, pen effort 45min, Cam Roigard effort 54min, Jamie Booth effort 70min, Julian Savea effort 73min, Tyrel Lomax effort 78min; Jordie Barrett 4 con, 2 pen) REDS 13 (Jordan Petaia effort 29min; Tom Lynagh con, 2 pen). HT: 16-13

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