Posts Tagged "Ben Lucas"
Reds put faith in Lucas at No.10
By Laine Clark, 21 Jul 2012Stepping into Quade Cooper’s shoes would faze most players. But Queensland fill-in five-eighth Ben Lucas was more concerned with putting the boot into the perception the Reds were a one-man team ahead of their Super Rugby knockout final against the Sharks on Saturday night.
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Lucas looms as Wallabies bolter
By Jim Morton, 11 May 2012Ben Lucas has endured a history of Wallabies near misses but the Queensland Reds Mr Fix-It can play his way into the Test No.10 jersey by turning Australia’s playmaking curse on its head.
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Samo dumped, Faingaa back for Reds
By Jim Morton, 26 Apr 2012The Queensland Reds have dumped Wallabies No.8 Radike Samo but rushed Test centre Anthony Faingaa back from injury for Friday night’s Super Rugby clash with the struggling Blues in Auckland.
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Reds need to ‘lift tempo’ against Sharks
By Adrian Warren, 16 Mar 2012Utility back Ben Lucas has been charged with upping the tempo for Super Rugby leader Queensland against the Sharks in Durban this weekend. Reds coach Ewen McKenzie has made six personnel changes and a significant positional switch to his unbeaten side.
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Mr Fix-It Lucas wants to nail down No.10
By Jim Morton, 11 Feb 2012Queensland playmaking contender Ben Lucas doesn’t mind being the Reds’ Mr Fix-It but he’s ready to lose his tag as the “nearly man” of Australian rugby.
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Wallabies team named – Lucas, Tapuai set to make debut
By Tom Wald, 1 Dec 2011Queensland Reds backs Ben Lucas and Ben Tapuai are in line to make their Test debuts off the bench in Saturday’s (Sunday AM AEDT) clash against Wales in Cardiff.
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Reds get the wobbles ahead of Super Rugby finals
By Jim Morton, 6 Jun 2011Queensland’s brutal loss to the Brumbies is threatening to derail their Super Rugby title charge with almost half their backline wiped out in Saturday night’s 22-14 upset.
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Queensland Reds confident going into Bulls clash
By AAP, 14 Apr 2011Former starting players Van Humphries and Ben Lucas accept they face a tough task to break back into the surging Queensland Reds team.
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Injury-hit Reds put Lucas at five-eighth
By Jim Morton, 7 May 2009Halfback Ben Lucas will guide injury-riddled Queensland’s fortunes against the Crusaders from five-eighth after backline general Berrick Barnes was among eight players ruled out of the penultimate round Super 14 clash.
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Mooney shelves the axe and keeps faith
By AAP, 23 Apr 2009Queensland coach Phil Mooney has resisted the urge to make drastic changes to his off-colour Reds for Saturday’s Super 14 clash with the Blues at North Harbour Stadium.
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Reds fumbles cost them dearly in Pretoria
By AAP, 15 Feb 2009The Queensland Reds were made to pay dearly for their mistakes as the Bulls scored a 33-20 opening round Super 14 victory at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
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Lucas eyes Wallabies opening at No.9
By Jim Morton, 10 Feb 2009Multi-skilled halfback Ben Lucas is yet to cement Queensland’s No.9 jersey but has already thrown down the gauntlet to Luke Burgess for the Wallabies role.
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