{"id":418677,"date":"2026-01-17T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418677\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:13:08","slug":"the-big-no-8-wallabies-skipper-wilson-has-knee-surgery-to-miss-start-of-super-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/418677\/","title":{"rendered":"The big No.8: Wallabies skipper Wilson has knee surgery, to miss start of Super Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image_img__HwwMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768637588_431_.jpeg\" alt=\"Wallabies skipper Harry Wilson (L) will miss the start of the Super Rugby season after minor knee surgery\" width=\"1224\" height=\"816\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wallabies skipper Harry Wilson is set to miss the early rounds of the Super Rugby season after undergoing minor knee surgery, his club Queensland Reds said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The big No.8 damaged his knee in August when leading Australia to victory over South Africa at Ellis Park, their first win at the venue in 62 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was forced off after scoring the second of his two tries.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds said the 36-Test veteran underwent clean-up surgery in Brisbane on Friday and was expected to be sidelined for about six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>They face the NSW Waratahs in their season opener on February 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great news that the surgery has gone well,\u201d said Reds coach Les Kiss, who will take over from Joe Schmidt as Australia coach later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity now is for our other Reds backrowers to step up and show their wares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>mp\/pst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallabies skipper Harry Wilson is set to miss the early rounds of the Super Rugby season after undergoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-418677","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\/418677","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=418677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}