Tim...a bream rod would be fine for the size of fish you catch mate..
Seriously though I snapped 2 x10-15kg shimano backbone rods in the past year fishing for Reds...
With the tyrnos and 80lb braid , getting sharked and then locking the drag right up and holding on to try and snap the line at the leader knot unfortunately the rods did not survive...
Thats one of the reasons why we have moved to the deck winchs for deeper water red fishing...