{"id":401142,"date":"2026-01-09T03:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:41:09","slug":"fraser-mcreight-to-lead-the-queensland-reds-ahead-of-the-2027-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401142\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser McReight to lead the Queensland Reds ahead of the 2027 Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraser McReight has been confirmed as the Queensland Reds skipper for the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific campaign, replacing halfback Tate McDermott and the departing Liam Wright in what will be coach Les Kiss\u2019 final season before he takes the national reins.<\/p>\n<p>Standout flanker McReight has been lauded as a long-term captaincy candidate in Wallabies colours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fraser McReight became the 91st Wallabies captain.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/79b23e22ff6eee9be0ea646c83ad2327e7942efd.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser McReight became the 91st Wallabies captain.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis role is a huge honour and even more so because I follow some great mates and leaders into the role, having watched Tate and Liam do a terrific job,\u201d said McReight, who became the Wallabies\u2019 91st captain during a Rugby Championship clash with South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey showed me the path over the past four seasons, and hopefully I\u2019ll now land on my path as a captain with all I\u2019ve learnt about myself as a person and as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fraser McReight has been confirmed as the Queensland Reds skipper for the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific campaign, replacing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-401142","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\/401142","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=401142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}