Nic Lynagh will join brother Tom at Ballymore next season as the family’s Queensland Reds legacy grows.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old will arrive from London later this month to begin training with the Reds’ academy on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n
The outside back admitted the idea was planted by 22-year-old Tom, who made the move five years ago and started in the Wallabies’ No.10 for all three British and Irish Lions Tests earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Tom’s move came after father Michael had played 100 games for the Reds and won a World Cup in a 72-Test Wallabies career.<\/p>\n
The Lynagh trio were in the stands in Udine to watch eldest brother Louis, 24, score for Italy in their defeat of Australia on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Tom had won the battle to wear the No.10 to begin this Test season but, after a head knock and nagging hamstring injury, was left out of Joe Schmidt’s European tour squad.<\/p>\n
The move is a win for Australian rugby and potentially ends the prospect of all three brothers playing Tests for different nations.<\/p>\n
“I’ve only heard good things about the Reds from Tom,” England-born Nic Lynagh said.<\/p>\n
“He’s the one who planted the idea in my mind.<\/p>\n
“The lifestyle in Queensland, the environment to improve, learning a completely different style of game.<\/p>\n
“It’s made him a better player.<\/p>\n
“I watched a lot of the Reds on TV this year so I like the way the Reds play as well.<\/p>\n
“The move worked out for Tom. It might for me. I’m going to go for it.”<\/p>\n
Lynagh is fresh off a three-month academy stint with English Premiership club Harlequins.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been tracking Nic’s development as a good young player for some time, right back to when the Reds signed Tom five years ago,” Reds football boss Sam Cordingley said.<\/p>\n
“The connection through his brother will make the transition easier at Ballymore. We are looking forward to seeing Nic develop.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nic Lynagh will join brother Tom at Ballymore next season as the family’s Queensland Reds legacy grows. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-274682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274682","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=274682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}