From the article:
The club would also like to acknowledge and thank departing players Chris Feauai-Sautia, JP and Ruan Smith, Scott Malolua, Jack Hardy, Jack Straker, Sean Farrell, Jethro Felemi, Dave Feao, Tom Kibble, Michael Wood and Carter Gordon for their contributions to Queensland
He's been pretty loyal, and we've stuck by him despite constant injury. Perhaps he's decided its time to cash in his chips and head to Japan?? I don't begrudge him. He deserves to I reckon.
I don't like to critique the hard working media team at the QRU or RA (this may be a RA issue in a centralised system) but its not a good look to announce the new playing squad but still have the old squad on the web site.
https://reds.rugby/teams/reds-mens
He's been pretty loyal, and we've stuck by him despite constant injury. Perhaps he's decided its time to cash in his chips and head to Japan?? I don't begrudge him. He deserves to I reckon.
He played in Japan a few years ago to play during the off-season, an injury cut short that season.
It’s possible he has just decided to retire, I’d imagine it’s extremely frustrating getting injured so often and missing so much rugby
He's survived under the tenure of 4 head coaches I believe and has a couple of Wallabies caps, he's served Australian rugby well. I wonder where he is headed, haven't seen his name pop up on any media releases but I guess he's not high profile enough.
My Gallopers have taken quite a hit there!
Throw Dave Feao into that list and you've got pretty much all the front row stocks from last year and all managed to get game time. Lets hope there aren't too many injuries.
On the otherhand, I don't think I've seen that many Wests players in a Reds squad ever. We've almost got the an entire backline there. Last time I saw that was with Latho, Schifsofske and Berrick.
And imagine if Carter Gordon had stuck around, he would have played some time this year. Some good things coming out of Wests!
They just can't seem to build depth to be competitive at club level.
Hardy is listed in the departuresNo Jack Hardy mentioned? In list or farewells? Or was he just another name I missed?
Remember we are without LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) for the first two games.
That’s Game 1 rollout I reckon. ASY (Angus Scott-Young) and Stewart are going to have to step it up to get some good game time. Stewart would have been my preference for 12 but you can’t have Paisami or Petaia on the bench. Petaia to fullback is always an option.