Brisbane City vs Queensland Country: NRC live scores, blog, stream

Just saw the full game on replay. My notes: 0' out in the full 1' scrum reset. Huge City scrum. Country backpeddling. Now City feed 2' Country LHP collapses. City scrum penalty win 3' 6man linout city 20m right. Jake. Gill felled by Adams 20m middle 4' ruck penalty. Lineout drive from 10m left. goes to the line. held up. 5' City 5m Scrum! mid left should be interesting. reset 6' And the Country wins a penalty ,after the scrum collapses Country lineout 40m right #6 wins. cleared to City and is charge 6' McIntyre cleans up right City 30m. goes to Kerevi on right. McIntyre in the middle. No progress, so its punted towards the Country 7' JJT runs to his 40mand harrassed in the ruck. slow recycle. Bad pass and City scrum in Country 45m centre 8' Scrum collapses. Country LHP penalised 9' City lineout left 22m. Jake to 10, goes to right Frisby chips over. and punted back 10' Jake win. Kerevi get the ball. Passes to Chris K but the ball goes nowhere near Chris K. Ball goes back to halfway. Scrum Country 11' Scrum solid. Brandon kicks to City 23m right for lineout Jake takes again. Chip to 45m taken by Pincus. Few phases ball still around halfway. Ball flipped around 12' Bill does a Drew Mitchell and throws to #15 in midfield. Nice play, finding lots of space. Kerevi to halfway, then Jake into Country 40m. will city players in tow They win a ruck penalty. Lineout 22. Gill wins. Back to Kerevi. Boy isnt it a good idea to have him as the 12. Good to see him with hands on ball often 13' Ball goes to 22m midleft, then centrefield. The hits the ref. Scrum 25m 14' Scrum collapses. Oi commentator pls dont talk when the ref is talking 14' feed, collapses but ball comes out. Ruck penalty. Frisby runs it through a handful of defenders. But no one else with him. JJT gets the ball. Takes 15m. Passes to Johnson who takes another five and punts into an open field 15' Kerevi chases and saves the day. Couple or rucks under pressure. Kerevi gets hit, fends then ragdolls Beau R then thows a clearing pass to Chris K, who then 5man brilliantly clears to Jake . Toby runs from 10m to Country 22m right. Frisby to Country 25m mid right. And loses possession / penalty 16' 5man Lineout Country in City 40m left. Stays left for couple rucks through the pack. Third phase pushed back. Ball back in halfway. Then back into their half. Good defence City - but they concede a penalty. 17' JT nice step. They ball gets passed back. City rush defence working. Ref calls the penalty advantage over 18' Country lineout 22m right. Hits fumi, to Adams. who does a Quade Cooper pass to JJT. Ben Adams what a pass. Country what a set piece try.JJT evade Chris K rush. Runs past Toby W. 19' Brandon misses 20' Brandon fields and clears the restart. City 6man lineout in country 40m right. Gil just wins 21' Kicked to Country, returned to City. 15 linebreaks, recycled. Jake huge linebreak! nice pass from a City prop. Ready does a Read on the left wing and makes huge metres down to the 25m. But no one to pass to except for a couple props trotting up field. 22' City scrum 30m left. Gill rushes into the redzone. But ball turnedover. country will penalty from the side. Kudos Ant F. JJT kicks a beautiful clearning penalty to the line into the City 10m for lineout. But throw not straight. What a waste. City scrum, clearing kick 23' Country lineout in City 22m left. 24' Another set piece try, this time from the left. Country have done their homework. Helps if you throw straight. Ant F cuts out a compressed City defence to an open JJT. With an overlap he passes to Pincus. Instead of running into the tryline. He works the pill closer to the posts to improve his chances for the conversion. Which Brandon does 26' City restart too short. Country feed halfway midleft 27' City phses the country back 5m and Curtis takes the pill. HUGE SCRUM! Maybe they should drop the ball more often 28' city Chips, then receives the clearance. City ball back in their 40m. Gill takes it to 45m. Ball goes to the Country 45m Jake again to the country 40m. Kick vt City 10. Beautiful into the Country 5m on their left. 29' Country throw into an 8man line out. Cleared to the Country 40m. Chris K errors taking the all out. Country throw 30' High school boy makes few metres. Tackled. Gill takes the ball. Wins a penalty. City lineout 20m right 8 man lineout Ready to Gill. Just. Gill into the 10m mid right Pick and go to the 5m. City earns a ruck penalty. 31' Scrum! and scrum penalty. #1 warned. Next one is a YC 33' reset. City scrums pushed forward turns the pack one way. Ball cleared the other way. #21 felled 1cm from the line. Recycle by Paraka try. mid left. Johnson misses 13-5 34' White fields the restart 30m left. Gill to Ready. Cleared to Country Brandon 30m. JJT chips and chases. City moves to the 45m centre. McKintyre chips with 3 chasers. Country in their 40m 35' Turned over. Gill goes for the pill. Then rucks with Jake. Kerevi gets it in the Country 45. And does a Fekitoa + Kuridnari + Speight. Runs all the way to tryline. Try denied by JJT and couple others who were bruised by the encounter. Much better job in defence JJT 36' Penalty holding on. Country Lineout 40m stolen by Country. Ball goes to Gill after some blockbuster runs by one prop, then a lock. Kerevi gets anice pass. But he gives the ball to Pincus who clears it silly mistake 37' Lineout City in their 45m. Taken out inthe air 38' Lackie clears for a penalty lneout 24m left. Picked up the the back. Messy betwen the 10 and Samu. Country gets a hand in and its a City scrum in Country 30 mid right And they are crushed. Hayden is binned. Lineout City 10m lineout right 39' Jake takes. ball goes to ground. Kerevi to the 1m. Valu centre field. Frisby mid left. Knocked on at the base by McKintyre. Country scrum 15m from their trylinen mid right 40' Country survives the scrum, and the ball is cleared out. 5-13 40' Country restart. 41' City clears. Country lineout in their 45m left wins 42' Country clears to 15. Ball goes into the Country half leftside. Goes to Kerevi on right side. Goes into the middle. Country rucks hard but concedes a penalty. City lineout in Country 10m right Stolen! 43' Cleared to Chris K. runs back Folayu nto the 22m mid right. Folau take note. goes to big prop #18 makes more metres. Kerevi tackled high still running. Ball goes to 5m on left. Jake runs into traffic from slow recycle Penalty adv over. City lineout 5m out left 44' DMcD gest the ball. Maul paused, Ready in the back. Ref calls 'That's One!' Maul pushes with new players joning the back for long maul formation. ahead for a nice try on the left. Good idea to call a short lineout. Converted 46'Restart grubbered to Kerevi. City keeps posession runs into the Country half. 47' Country 7man lineout left their 45m. Not straight. Scrum! 48' Jake runs from the base into the open. Forward pas to Gill. Scrum City their 45m mid left. City will press this one 49' Country barely survives it with City driving through. Ball cleared to City, marked. 22m restart 50' Country couple of phases, grubbers to the City. passes to the Chris K's wing. Who runs over the half. 51' City drops the ball mid left. Some sub, injuries. City scrum monsters the undermanned Country. They loses 40m due to the penalty 52' City lineout 22m left. Stolen. Beau gets it and wins a ruck penalthy. 53' JJT misses the penalty kick to touch. Ball cleared to City right. Curtis quick throw. Frisby runs into the Country half. Ball goes into a dozen hands goes left into the Country 25m. Country counters and pilfers. Clears. 54' Lineout country in city 45m left. Loses it. Pincus harrased by defence. Ball cleared. City lineout same place as last. 55' Just won. City loses 10m. Gill gets short pass from Frisby. Fells one of the Country locks. Ball now w/Kerevi 25m mid right 56' #15 takes it through traffic to 22m. Ready nice run. Frisby crunched by Beau. Ball spills. JJT makes more metres. Earns ruck penalty his 30m mid right 57' Lineout country in city 42m right. Ball spoilt Country back in their half with their forwards. Earn a penalty. City not rolling away 58' country lineout 10m right. Good score opportunity 59' Ball spoilt Jake gets it. Boxed out. Country lineout 30m right 60' Ready got it. Ready lost it. Country has it cant get it past the City 40m. Its chipped to City. Goes to Kerevi and chips it like Cruden to Country 5m no one home. Cleared by country to their own 5m. Lineout City 5m right. The other QC is on the field 61' Mauled mid right. Earn a penalty. city Scrum! 5m out. 62' Jake runs from the back of the scrum. Couple of pick/gos. Frisby runs it pushed back. Then Chris K gets in the thick of that and runs into the right corner. Quade to kick from rightmost. Splits the sticks CLL style. Just Beautiful 63' Restart. couple phases. Cleared. Country lineout left halfway 64' Ball contested. JJT runs into the City 30m right. Chips. Lineout City 22m right. won. cleared 65' Ball recycled quickly. Goes to JJT. Takes the line. Then holds it up, for Beau beautifully. powers through a small gap. But forward pass. Country scrum 40 midleft 67' reset. refeed. This time City keeps the ball with Jake. Makes five metres and earns a penalty. Handbags! 68' Quade clears to 20m left. Jake wins. QUade takes a line with 3 runners to his right. Hits #11 who spills it. Country scrum 15m mid right. Collapses. City wins the penalty 69' Scrum instead of the two pointer to take the game beyond a converted try. 70' City push over QC first receiver. Valu to #11. who sprints for an open tryline. But taken out into touch. Country scrum 5m rightside 71' And the City pushes the Country back to their tryline. But the survive and clear 72' City keep the pill. Kerevi tackled by a couple defenders, Frisby passes to a replacement prop. Who then passes to another replacement prop. Who then passes to another front rower. Who offloads to another front rower who makes monster metres into Country 25m. Its #17. who Then Quade short to Jake who runs into the Country 15m - scrum City feed 73' QC gets the ball. And feeds another prop #18 on the blind. He trucks at speed into the 10m. QC short ball to Jake into their 10m. Scrum City. Ball staying with the pack 74' Those City front rowers causing damage in the scrum, the loose scrum and ball in hand. Scrum penalty. And James Slipper brother, Will, is sent off 75' Scrum again. Country back with the starting front row. reset 76' Country pushes ahead and inches forward. City survives. Couple of phases. And Frisby holds the pass from a rushing defender and pops to 18 with Gill to his left, Quade to his right. Nice try under the post. Many defenders on the the previous couple rucks. 77 restart clearance offside. JJT clears to 10m left 78' Won. Mauled goes to 5m. Stretches the city defence. JJT knockson the ball in contact to try and get his wingman into space. Scrum City. Scrum win. Poor pass. QC trick pass to #15. QC crossfield to out. didnt work, at all. Country lineout 20m right. win. Maul to th e 15m, paused. Moves to 10m. Concedes a penalty 79' city lineout halfway left. Quade to Samu. #20 through the ruck into the 25m. Ball lost Country move it up over the half. City tackles Beau halfway middle. City counters spoilt. concedes a penalty. 80' Country 10m lineout right. Maul. Breaks left into the Quade who tackles. Ball goes right. JJT chips. Then city counters. Quade trick pass to Kerevi Runs to 10m. Then to Frisby. Grubbers ahead for Aleuifi who chips the pill on halfway ahead for Quade to chase. Wins it on the 22m. But knocks game over

Gee that brought back some memories. Sitting on the hill on a Sunday arvo watching great running rugby. Enjoying a warm xxxx. Only difference was the son and nephews were with me. Great afternoon of rugby. The kids absolutely loved it. I fell in love with rugby going to Ballymorenwith my old man when I was a boy - and seeing how much fun the kids had today I can see why. My little fella wants to go again. THIS is what the aru needs to do more of - afternoon rugby so kids can get along. Rugby was good as well. Good to see Quade back as well. Say what you will about him as a player, but you can't ask more of him promoting the game. He was on the field for ages after the game signing autographs for kids and having photos. Much respect to him.

I watched the game from Hong Kong on my laptop as smart tv's still have an issue with live streaming but NRC fans will be the most tech literate by the end of the NRC season. Great to see a good crowd in attendance. Country scrum was smashed which gave City a deserved victory. I am so pleased that this competition is up and going. Fantastic live blogging by Cam Avery and Scott Allen. Final thing. For us expats living in Asia we crave our rugby so hats off to all Roarers for all the articles. Dan

Write an article on it! Love the positive stuff.

Last 20mins. He did not have many opportunities to show his wares but the touches he had were good.

Great game I was there and really enjoyed it the crowd was good, but I thought it would have been a lot better. I don't get how all the Reds fans are not turning up?

I haven't read all the comments below, but having just come back from the game, just thought I'd put in my two cents: 1.) Really decent crowd, one entire side grandstand and most of the hill were full, with a spattering of people elsewhere. 2.) Good quality rugby, with a balance of exciting back play and some tough mauling. Queensland City were rewarded for a dominant scrum display. 3.) Positive vibe from the crowd, with everyone I heard from pretty impressed with the caliber of play 4.) Day games are just tremendous! Plenty of families along, a beautiful day. All in all, plenty of 'that was great, we should come next game' going on. A total win of a day for the NRC I'd say!

Did QC get enough play to see how he's looking?

nice try. Country left a huge hole there

Sounds like country really missing holmes

Think it should now be obvious to all that QLD Country's recent good scrummaging was down to one player - Greg Holmes. They have been toweled up today without him there.