Reds 2022
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Rod McCall (65)
Pilecki Medal Count
- Harry Wilson (281 votes)
- Tate McDermott (241 votes)
- Fraser McReight (171 votes)
- Hamish Stewart (132 votes)
- Seru Uru (130 votes)
- Ryan Smith (126 votes)
- Jock Campbell (123 votes)
- Josh Flook (114 votes)
- Hunter Paisami (98 votes)
- James O’Connor (95 votes)
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
which of these kids are locks and when is qld rugby announcing their reds contracts?
Unfortunately one is Stuart Tualima....whos big brother just signed for the Rebels apparently.
Roger Tessman
Stan Wickham (3)
Sunshine Coast Grammar School has produced a lot of good 9 & 10s. Not a bad effort from a small regional school
9 Tate McDermott - Wallabies & Reds Captain
9 Louis Werchon - Junior Wallabies call up
9 Luke Aiken - Reds Academy
10 Carter Gordon - Super Rugby & Junior Wallabies
10 Mason Gordon - Super Rugby & Junior Wallabies Vice Captain
10 Finn Prass - Reds Academy
The Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) has today announced a two-match series between a Queensland Reds Development team and a Queensland President’s XV to provide further development opportunities for elite, non-contracted players in Queensland.
The Queensland Rugby Challenger series, which will be held at club venues in October, will see contracted Reds players take on the best of the StoreLocal Hospital Cup competition, with the series culminating in a tour to Japan.
Queensland will take on their sister-state club the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights on November 4 with spots in the travelling squad on offer following the two matches.
Reds General Manager of Professional Rugby Sam Cordingley said: “As a club, we are excited to travel to Japan and play our Japanese partner the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights as part of our 2023 preparations.
“It was unfortunate we had to postpone last year’s match due to COVID-19, but we thank the Wild Knights for their continued support to ensure this historic fixture could still take place.
“Just like Queensland teams did in the 70’s and 80’s – the Reds will tour once again in the off-season, with our time in Japan set to provide a valuable development opportunity for our squad and Queensland’s best developing players ahead of next year’s Super Rugby Pacific season.
“Given the significance and history surrounding the event, this will be a capped fixture which will afford a number of Queensland’s best amateur players the opportunity to receive a Queensland Reds Cap and number.”
Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights General Manager Hitoshi Iijima said: “We are very pleased to have a world-class Rugby team the Queensland Reds from Queensland Australia, a twin city of Saitama Prefecture, to Kumagaya Rugby Stadium to play this fixture.
“We would like to deeply thank the Queensland Reds, for making the decision to travel to Japan despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, we give our deepest gratitude to Saitama Prefecture, Kumagaya City, and all those involved for their support and cooperation.
“We hope this match will lead not only to the growth of the Wild Knights, but also to further friendship between the two cities and development of Rugby in Japan.”
The Queensland Rugby Challenger series is set to provide prospective Super Rugby players with the chance to test their ability at a level between club and professional Rugby.
The series will also be used to trial several law variations to increase ball in play time and improve the spectacle for fans.
In a throwback to the amateur era, teams will come together following each match, with speeches from captains and coaches, and acknowledgements to match officials and players of the match.
Staff will also get opportunity to test themselves at the next level, with the President’s XV to be chosen purely from the Hospital Cup talent pool on and off the field.
Reds Super W Head Coach Simon Craig (Easts) will lead the President’s XV coaching team, supported by Elwee Prinsloo (Wests) and Elton Berrange (UQ).
Cordingley said: “The Queensland Rugby Challenger series will further increase our connection between the amateur and professional games in Queensland.
“We’ve had a development gap for too long compared with other Rugby nations. These matches will afford the Reds squad more playing time together while at the same time providing opportunities for our best amateur Queensland players and coaches to be involved in representative Rugby.
“This series will provide a platform for innovation, which is difficult to trial during Super Rugby, as well as bringing back some of the points of difference our great game has had.
"The Challenger Series and Japan Tour is a starting point which we will aim to grow in future years.”
The President’s XV side will be selected following the QPR finals series, with the StoreLocal Hospital Cup Grand Final taking place at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday 18 September.
The subsequent tour match against the Wild Knights will be the inaugural fixture between the sides following the announcement of their bilateral alliance partnership in 2020.
The connection between the two teams will be further highlighted during the tour when the Reds and Wild Knights celebrate the 30th anniversary of their first match against each other in the Saitama Prefecture. The teams will play for the Saitama-Queensland Shield, named in honour of the relationship between the two sister-states.
In 1991, a Queensland touring team captained by Michael Lynagh that included names like Tim Horan, Jason Little, John Eales, Brendan Nasser (father of current Reds frontrower Josh), plus Paul Carozza (current Reds Academy Head of Talent Identification) and their physiotherapist Cameron Lillicrap (current Reds Assistant coach) took on a Saitama XV side which featured the Wild Knights’ General Manager Hitoshi Iijima.
The Queensland Reds and Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights will continue to work proactively together to promote and contribute to the development of each team and region in both Queensland and Saitama Prefecture before-and-after November’s historic match.
It follows Panasonic shifting their home base to Saitama Prefecture located in the Greater Tokyo Area which shares a sister-state relationship with Queensland.
Saitama Prefecture was Queensland’s first sister-state relationship formed in 1984 and remains one of the most active among the many currently still operating between the two countries.
Queensland Rugby Challenger Series
Queensland Reds Development XV v Queensland President’s XV
The Queensland Rugby Challenger series, which will be held at club venues in October, will see contracted Reds players take on the best of the StoreLocal Hospital Cup competition, with the series culminating in a tour to Japan.
Queensland will take on their sister-state club the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights on November 4 with spots in the travelling squad on offer following the two matches.
Reds General Manager of Professional Rugby Sam Cordingley said: “As a club, we are excited to travel to Japan and play our Japanese partner the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights as part of our 2023 preparations.
“It was unfortunate we had to postpone last year’s match due to COVID-19, but we thank the Wild Knights for their continued support to ensure this historic fixture could still take place.
“Just like Queensland teams did in the 70’s and 80’s – the Reds will tour once again in the off-season, with our time in Japan set to provide a valuable development opportunity for our squad and Queensland’s best developing players ahead of next year’s Super Rugby Pacific season.
“Given the significance and history surrounding the event, this will be a capped fixture which will afford a number of Queensland’s best amateur players the opportunity to receive a Queensland Reds Cap and number.”
Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights General Manager Hitoshi Iijima said: “We are very pleased to have a world-class Rugby team the Queensland Reds from Queensland Australia, a twin city of Saitama Prefecture, to Kumagaya Rugby Stadium to play this fixture.
“We would like to deeply thank the Queensland Reds, for making the decision to travel to Japan despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, we give our deepest gratitude to Saitama Prefecture, Kumagaya City, and all those involved for their support and cooperation.
“We hope this match will lead not only to the growth of the Wild Knights, but also to further friendship between the two cities and development of Rugby in Japan.”
The Queensland Rugby Challenger series is set to provide prospective Super Rugby players with the chance to test their ability at a level between club and professional Rugby.
The series will also be used to trial several law variations to increase ball in play time and improve the spectacle for fans.
In a throwback to the amateur era, teams will come together following each match, with speeches from captains and coaches, and acknowledgements to match officials and players of the match.
Staff will also get opportunity to test themselves at the next level, with the President’s XV to be chosen purely from the Hospital Cup talent pool on and off the field.
Reds Super W Head Coach Simon Craig (Easts) will lead the President’s XV coaching team, supported by Elwee Prinsloo (Wests) and Elton Berrange (UQ).
Cordingley said: “The Queensland Rugby Challenger series will further increase our connection between the amateur and professional games in Queensland.
“We’ve had a development gap for too long compared with other Rugby nations. These matches will afford the Reds squad more playing time together while at the same time providing opportunities for our best amateur Queensland players and coaches to be involved in representative Rugby.
“This series will provide a platform for innovation, which is difficult to trial during Super Rugby, as well as bringing back some of the points of difference our great game has had.
"The Challenger Series and Japan Tour is a starting point which we will aim to grow in future years.”
The President’s XV side will be selected following the QPR finals series, with the StoreLocal Hospital Cup Grand Final taking place at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday 18 September.
The subsequent tour match against the Wild Knights will be the inaugural fixture between the sides following the announcement of their bilateral alliance partnership in 2020.
The connection between the two teams will be further highlighted during the tour when the Reds and Wild Knights celebrate the 30th anniversary of their first match against each other in the Saitama Prefecture. The teams will play for the Saitama-Queensland Shield, named in honour of the relationship between the two sister-states.
In 1991, a Queensland touring team captained by Michael Lynagh that included names like Tim Horan, Jason Little, John Eales, Brendan Nasser (father of current Reds frontrower Josh), plus Paul Carozza (current Reds Academy Head of Talent Identification) and their physiotherapist Cameron Lillicrap (current Reds Assistant coach) took on a Saitama XV side which featured the Wild Knights’ General Manager Hitoshi Iijima.
The Queensland Reds and Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights will continue to work proactively together to promote and contribute to the development of each team and region in both Queensland and Saitama Prefecture before-and-after November’s historic match.
It follows Panasonic shifting their home base to Saitama Prefecture located in the Greater Tokyo Area which shares a sister-state relationship with Queensland.
Saitama Prefecture was Queensland’s first sister-state relationship formed in 1984 and remains one of the most active among the many currently still operating between the two countries.
Queensland Rugby Challenger Series
Queensland Reds Development XV v Queensland President’s XV
- Saturday 8 October, Location TBC
- Saturday 15 October, Location TBC
- Queensland Reds v Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights – Friday November 4th, Kumagaya Rugby Stadium
love that the Wild Knights game will be a capped match. Means we MAY have an amateur player capped for QLD again.
with McReight in the Wallabies and Wright still injured (I assume) you'd think perhaps a Connor/Conor is a good chance of getting capped? Anderson, Mitchell or Pritchard.
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Probably a pretty good chance of that, though I do wonder if they'll be keen to bring Wallis back into the fold if Melbourne haven't renewed his contract.
Along those lines, with Nasser injured does Dobbins get a chance? The form he's in I wouldn't put it past him to demand a place on performance in the challenger series.
good call on Wallis. You'd think that's a fair chance.
As for Nasser, we still have Faessler and Asiata but it would be awesome to take Dobbins as a development player. Well deserved.
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Yeah, I'm guessing challenger series will be Faessler/Asiata v Blake/Dobbins and then if one of Blake and Dobbins puts their hand up they'll be a good chance of getting time against Panasonic to prep them for that 4th hooker spot.
I figure we'll see a club centre or two with Paisami at the wallabies, Flook probably still injured and Stewart gone. Probably at least one prop too, not sure what state Nonggorr and Fa'agase are in.
The Whisperer
Alfred Walker (16)
A Development XV (Minus Wallaby Squad members) could look like:
1. Harry Hoopert
2. Matt Faessler
3. Dane Zander
4. Ryan Smith
5. Angus Blyth
6. Keynan Tauakipulu
7. Nick Baker
8. Seru Uru
9. Kalani Thomas
10. Lawson Creighton
11. Floyd Aubrey
12. Isaac Henry
13. Filipo Daugunu
14. Kye Oates
15. Mac Grealy
RESERVES
16. Richie Asiata
17. Sef Fa’agase
18. George Blake
19. Lopeti Faifua
20.
21. Spencer Jeans
22. Tom Lynagh
23. Taj Annan
24. Max Craig
25. Wilson Blyth
Unsure on Injuries/Availability:
Zane Nongoor
Liam Wright
Josh Flook
Connor Vest
1. Harry Hoopert
2. Matt Faessler
3. Dane Zander
4. Ryan Smith
5. Angus Blyth
6. Keynan Tauakipulu
7. Nick Baker
8. Seru Uru
9. Kalani Thomas
10. Lawson Creighton
11. Floyd Aubrey
12. Isaac Henry
13. Filipo Daugunu
14. Kye Oates
15. Mac Grealy
RESERVES
16. Richie Asiata
17. Sef Fa’agase
18. George Blake
19. Lopeti Faifua
20.
21. Spencer Jeans
22. Tom Lynagh
23. Taj Annan
24. Max Craig
25. Wilson Blyth
Unsure on Injuries/Availability:
Zane Nongoor
Liam Wright
Josh Flook
Connor Vest
Wilson
Phil Kearns (64)
Looks like the Australia A games in Japan are on the 1st, 8th and 15th of October so there will be a few more regular Reds missing from the development side.
Just based on the previous games that'll be Hoopert, Faessler, Smith, Uru, Henry and Daugunu. That said there are no wallabies tests and no under 20s tournaments on at that time so the selections will probably be a bit different.
Just based on the previous games that'll be Hoopert, Faessler, Smith, Uru, Henry and Daugunu. That said there are no wallabies tests and no under 20s tournaments on at that time so the selections will probably be a bit different.
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For me a development xv should have a selection criteria of age. ie sub 24 year olds as these are the fellas we want to improve and get a few more years out of in the future.
That said, I think Sef Fa'agase at 31 would be better replaced with another up and comer. I do love what Sef has done and continues to do though.
SouthernX
John Thornett (49)
mate Brad Thorns teams are definitely lacking a bit of veteran starch.
think the squad could use a few older heads with a few battle scars to show the young boys - not saying they’d make the match day 23… but someone at training to rev the engines of these little wrapped in cotton wool Prima Donna prodigies .