{"id":419007,"date":"2026-01-17T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:46:07","slug":"wallabies-captain-to-miss-opening-super-rugby-rounds-following-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/419007\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies captain to miss opening Super Rugby rounds following knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/australia\/rBp21jRs\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> to victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/south-africa\/bHmPcrZk\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/queensland-reds\/bR4aayse\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reds<\/a> 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>&#8220;It&#8217;s great news that the surgery has gone well,&#8221; said Reds coach Les Kiss, who will take over from Joe Schmidt as Australia coach later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opportunity now is for our other Reds backrowers to step up and show their wares.&#8221;<\/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":419008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-419007","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\/419007","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=419007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}