{"id":234177,"date":"2025-10-23T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234177\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:45:08","slug":"reds-welcome-back-australia-a-trio-for-saitama-queensland-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/234177\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds welcome back Australia A trio for Saitama Queensland Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Queensland Reds<\/a> coach Les Kiss has welcomed back \u201csome experienced guys\u201d for Saturday\u2019s clash with Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights at Ballymore Stadium, including three players fresh off representative duty with Australia<\/a> A in Japan.<\/p>\n

Reds trio Harry McLaughlin-Phillips, Seru Uru<\/a> and Lachlan Anderson are back in the lineup after taking on a Japan<\/a> XV in Osaka last weekend, with Australia A<\/a> piling on more than 70 points at Yodoko Sakura Stadium.<\/p>\n

Queensland have also selected two players for their official Reds debuts. 18-year-old Treyvon Pritchard was selected at fullback for last weekend\u2019s uncapped match against the Wild Knights in Toowoomba, and has retained that position for the Saitama Queensland Shield.<\/p>\n

This will also be a Reds debut for Vaiuta Latu, who starts at No. 8. Latu joins Reds co-captain Seru Uru and Kohan Herbert<\/a> in the starting backrow, with those two lining up at blindside and openside flanker respectively.<\/p>\n

Bond University\u2019s George Blake<\/a> will pack down at loosehead prop, joining Theo Fourie<\/a> and Nick Bloomfield<\/a> in the front row. Brothers duo Charlie Brosnan<\/a> and Hamish Muller round out the tight five as the locking pair.<\/p>\n

GPS scrum-half James Martens<\/a> will partner McLaughlin-Phillips in the halves, while Dre Pakeho<\/a> and co-captain Isaac Henry<\/a> bring Super Rugby Pacific<\/a> experience to the midfield. Xavier Rubens<\/a>, Anderson and Pritchard are the outside backs in the run-on side.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to welcome back some experienced guys to blend with the youth,\u201d Kiss said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have entrusted the captaincy to the experienced hands of Seru Uru and Isaac Henry.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarry will lead us around the field from flyhalf. He\u2019ll form a halves pairing with James Martens<\/a>, another attack-minded player.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are expecting a different game to Toowoomba, a fierce contest as has been the pattern since the Reds and Wild Knights began these annual games in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt excites us that this game at our home at Ballymore will be the setting for Reds debuts for Treyvon, Vaiuta and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt deepens the value of these games even more when you see the players who have played their debut game for the Reds against the Wild Knights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s fixtures will open with the Reds taking on the ACT Brumbies<\/a> from in a Super Rugby U16s match from 10am. The Reds face the Wild Knights in the Saitama Queensland Shield at 1:30 pm AEST before a watch party on the field for Wallabies versus Japan at 3:50 pm on a big screen.<\/p>\n

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

1. George Blake \u2013 Bond University
2. Theo Fourie \u2013 Brothers
3. Nick Bloomfield \u2013 Easts
4. Charlie Brosnan \u2013 Brothers
5. Hamish Muller \u2013 Brothers
6. Seru Uru (cc) \u2013 Souths
7. Kohan Herbert \u2013 Souths
8. Vaiuta Latu \u2013 Brothers
9. James Martens \u2013 GPS
10. Harry McLaughlin-Phillips \u2013 Wests
11. Xavier Rubens<\/a> \u2013 Souths
12. Dre Pakeho \u2013 Brothers
13. Isaac Henry (cc) \u2013 Wests
14. Lachie Anderson<\/a> \u2013 University of Queensland
15. Treyvon Pritchard \u2013 Anglican Church Grammar School
Replacements
16. Max Craig<\/a> \u2013 Easts
17. Harrison Usher<\/a> \u2013 Bond University
18. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen \u2013 Norths
19. Jack Brady \u2013 University of Queensland
20. Zac Hough<\/a> \u2013 University of Queensland
21. Graham Urquhart<\/a> \u2013 Brothers
22. Finn Mackay \u2013 Souths
23. Heremaia Murray<\/a> \u2013 Bond University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland Reds coach Les Kiss has welcomed back \u201csome experienced guys\u201d for Saturday\u2019s clash with Saitama Panasonic Wild…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-234177","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\/234177","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=234177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}