{"id":216760,"date":"2025-10-16T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216760\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:57:07","slug":"henry-and-robinson-to-co-captain-new-look-reds-against-wild-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/216760\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry and Robinson to co-captain new-look Reds against Wild Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Isaac Henry and Tom Robinson<\/a> will share co-captaincy duties when a young Queensland Reds<\/a> side takes on Japan\u2019s Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights in Toowoomba this weekend, with two Australia<\/a> U18s standouts set to start in the backs.<\/p>\n

Henry has been named at outside centre, linking up with 2025 Super Rugby Pacific<\/a> rookie Dre Pakeho<\/a> in the midfield. Australia U18s stars Finn Mackay and Treyvon Pritchard have been named in the run-on side, starting at fly-half and fullback respectively.<\/p>\n

Pritchard played for the Anglican Church Grammar School First XV in Queensland\u2019s GPS First XV competition last month, before starring for the national U18s side in two comprehensive wins over the New Zealand<\/a> Schoolboys in Canberra.<\/p>\n

James Martens will combine with Mackay in the halves, while Souths\u2019 Xavier Rubens<\/a> starts on one wing, with Reds outside back Heremaia Murray<\/a> lining up on the other edge.<\/p>\n

In the forwards, George Blake<\/a> will pack down in the front row alongside Theo Fourie<\/a> and Trevor King. Charlie Brosnan<\/a> and Jack Brady round out the tight five as the two locks.<\/p>\n

Co-captain Robinson, who led the Australia U18s last year, has been selected at blindside flanker. Kohan Herbert<\/a> from Souths will line up at openside, with Vaiuta Latu the other starting forward at No. 8.<\/p>\n

10 replacements have been named, including former All Blacks<\/a> prop Jeffery Toomaga-Allan.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a coaching team, it\u2019s been really pleasing to see the growth of those players who performed exceptionally against NZ Schools. Their training has been superb since joining us,\u201d Reds Head Coach Les Kiss said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of credit is due to Australia U18s coach Dale Roberson, our Reds Academy coach, because they have been prepared knowing our systems and ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s especially exciting to see Finn and Treyvon with this chance. They haven\u2019t just brought enthusiasm to training but attention to the detail of our game plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Finn, at No.10, he\u2019ll have centres outside him in Dre and Isaac, who both have Super Rugby experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see the development value of these games every season. Heremaia debuted for the Reds in Japan<\/a> last year and the likes of Massimo De Lutiis<\/a>, John Bryant<\/a>, Tim Ryan<\/a> and Harry McLaughlin-Phillips did so in my first match as Reds coach in 2023,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cultural experience of these games is one of the unique parts of rugby and I know Robbie and I appreciate this ongoing Reds-Wild Knights relationship in the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

This match will kick off at 3:00 pm AEST on Saturday at Toowoomba Sports Ground.<\/p>\n

Queensland Reds to take on Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights<\/p>\n

1 George Blake \u2013 Bond University
2 Theo Fourie \u2013 Brothers
3 Trevor King<\/a> \u2013 Souths
4 Charlie Brosnan \u2013 Brothers
5 Jack Brady \u2013 University of Queensland
6 Tom Robinson<\/a> (co-capt) \u2013 University of Queensland
7 Kohan Herbert \u2013 Souths
8 Vaiuta Latu \u2013 Brothers
9 James Martens<\/a> \u2013 GPS
10 Finn Mackay \u2013 Souths
11 Xavier Rubens \u2013 Souths
12 Dre Pakeho \u2013 Brothers
13 Isaac Henry<\/a> (co-capt) \u2013 Wests
14 Heremaia Murray \u2013 Bond University
15 Treyvon Pritchard \u2013 Anglican Church Grammar School
Replacements
Zac Hough \u2013 University of Queensland
Harrison Usher \u2013 Bond University
Nick Bloomfield \u2013 Easts
Ollie Harris \u2013 Norths
Jeffery Toomaga-Allen \u2013 Norths
Will Ross \u2013 Brothers
Hamish Muller \u2013 Brothers
Graham Urquhart \u2013 Brothers
Tom Howard \u2013 University of Queensland
Josh Takai \u2013 Brothers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Henry and Tom Robinson will share co-captaincy duties when a young Queensland Reds side takes on Japan\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-216760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}