{"id":378770,"date":"2024-03-23T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T11:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=378770"},"modified":"2024-03-23T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T12:02:29","slug":"force-rock-reds-with-huge-super-rugby-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=378770","title":{"rendered":"Force rock Reds with huge Super Rugby upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queensland Reds have had their bubble burst by the Western Force, who have hauled themselves off the Super Rugby Pacific canvas with a <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/live-scores\/western-force-v-queensland-reds-super-rugby-pacific-2024\/552313779\" title=\"40-31 upset in Perth on Saturday.\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">40-31 upset in Perth on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Force were winless before the round five clash while the Reds were gathering hype as a potential title contender under new coach Les Kiss.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian team hasn&#x27;t won a combined Super Rugby title \ufeffsince the NSW Waratahs in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch all the action from the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season,<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9.nine.com.au\/KRnrlm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"with every match ad free, live and and on demand on Stan Sport\"><em><strong>with<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>every match ad free, live and and on demand on Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"24f3d815-85d9-400e-8d9c-6da8c9b6e669\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/24f3d815-85d9-400e-8d9c-6da8c9b6e669\" alt=\"Bayley Kuenzie of the Force scores a try.\" data-width=\"2328\" data-height=\"1552\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Reds haven&#x27;t lifted the trophy since 2011 in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It feels good to be able to put a performance out there for the Sea of Blue,&quot; Force halfback Nic White said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s been coming&#8230; that first half of probably the first half hour or so, it was such a good defensive effort. That&#x27;s probably where it was built.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-south-sydney-rabbitohs-jason-demetriou-lowest-point-in-my-career-comments-sydney-roosters-reaction\/4939aa5f-a18b-4cce-b19b-5c3a7fd20c33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Demetriou&#x27;s grim admission after Roosters drubbing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-haumole-olakauatu-origin-nsw-blues-sea-eagles-brad-fittler-andrew-johns-exclusive\/4f153596-fe64-473a-9309-77a55866a67d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Freddy&#x27;s revelation as &#x27;nightmare&#x27; pushes Origin claims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\ufeff<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/f1-news-2024-australian-grand-prix-daniel-ricciardo-shut-the-world-out-david-brabham-comments-exclusive\/1360d018-478a-426d-ade7-746b33f36cd2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Legend&#x27;s pleas for Ricciardo to &#x27;shut the world out&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportRugby\/status\/1771485348100518007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/StanSportRugby\/status\/1771485348100518007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;ve just got to start doing it for a lot longer. 31 points, we&#x27;re not happy with that. That&#x27;s not a good defensive effort, but there&#x27;s patches there and we&#x27;ll enjoy tonight. We&#x27;ll celebrate those but we&#x27;re going to have to be better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes sit top of the table after their comfortable 54-28 win over the Melbourne Rebels in Palmerston North on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The ACT Brumbies (4-1) are the leading Australian team after \ufeffoutclassing Moana Pasifika 60-21 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Queensland Reds have had their bubble burst by the Western Force, who have hauled themselves off the Super Rugby Pacific canvas with a 40-31 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=378770\" title=\"Force rock Reds with huge Super Rugby upset\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":378772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378773,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378770\/revisions\/378773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}