{"id":274906,"date":"2025-11-10T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274906\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:08:15","slug":"teenage-son-of-rugby-great-michael-lynagh-joins-queensland-reds-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274906\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage son of rugby great Michael Lynagh joins Queensland Reds academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 The teenage son of rugby great Michael Lynagh is following his brother in moving from London to Australia to join the Queensland Reds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Brisbane-based Super Rugby franchise announced Monday that 18-year-old Nic Lynagh had joined the Reds\u2019 development academy on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n

His brother, 22-year-old Tom Lynagh<\/a>, is a playmaker at the Reds and made his starting debut for Australia against the British and Irish Lions in June.<\/p>\n

Their older brother, Louis Lynagh, played for Italy in a win over Australia<\/a> on Saturday and scored an important try at Udine.<\/p>\n

Michael Lynagh was instrumental in Australia\u2019s Rugby World Cup triumph in 1991 and played 100 games for Queensland state in the 1980s and 90s before moving to Britain to finish his playing career.<\/p>\n

Two of his sons have now decided to call Brisbane home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve only heard good things about the Reds from Tom. He\u2019s the one who planted the idea in my mind,\u201d Nic Lynagh said. \u201cThe lifestyle in Queensland, the environment to improve, learning a completely different style of game. Tom has been very positive about it all. It\u2019s made him a better player.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched a lot of the Reds on TV this year so I like the way the Reds play as well. The move worked out for Tom \u2014- it might for me. I\u2019m going to go for it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nic Lynagh plays fullback and wing.<\/p>\n

Sam Cordingley, the Reds\u2019 high performance manager, said having a brother at Ballymore would help the younger Lynagh settle in.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been tracking Nic\u2019s development as a good young player for some time, right back to when the Reds signed Tom five years ago,\u201d Cordingley said. \u201cWe are looking forward to seeing Nic develop in the Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP rugby: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISBANE, Australia (AP) \u2014 The teenage son of rugby great Michael Lynagh is following his brother in moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,159622,84917,701,760,159623,85,9365],"class_list":{"0":"post-274906","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-louis-lynagh","11":"tag-michael-lynagh","12":"tag-queensland","13":"tag-rugby","14":"tag-sam-cordingley","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tom-lynagh"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274906","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=274906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}