No.8 Harry Wilson is delighted to be back in action for the Queensland Reds and feels refreshed entering tonight\u2019s clash against the Highlanders at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n
A knee clean-up in January and positive rehab has kept disruption to a minimum.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really stoked to have only missed one game. When I went under the knife that was the goal. It\u2019s been a good timeline and I\u2019ve ticked every box over the past five weeks,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rest of my body feels really good after the extra break.\u201d<\/p>\n
He managed knee pain through a busy Test schedule with the Wallabies last year.<\/p>\n
“It was something I had to deal with. I thought I managed it well to play some good footy,” the Wallabies skipper said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou play a long Super Rugby season and an international season, everyone is going to have a few niggles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way it felt in pre-season, it made sense to get it fixed up for what is another massive year ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo get the knee right and the body right, I feel confident heading into Round Three with things feeling really good\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson said the Reds know the threat posed by the dangerous Highlanders, who toppled the champion Crusaders in their opening match of the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey beat the defending champions a few weeks ago and had a tight loss to the Chiefs last weekend so we know the threat,\u201d Wilson warned.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur first home game is exciting at a place where we love to play. The one thing about Reds fans they turn up in all weather conditions. If it’s rainy or it’s dry, they’ll be there supporting us.”<\/p>\n
Carter Gordon will step up for his Queensland debut at flyhalf, having first been signed by the club at 17 while still at Brisbane Boys’ College. Wilson remembers Gordon as a youngster around the squad before his detour to the Melbourne Rebels and the Gold Coast Titans.<\/p>\n
“I remember him as a little choir boy and he’s come back a new man, Carter,” Wilson said with a laugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s always been strong defensively and played a lot of centres in league. I’ve got no doubt his defence will be a threat for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow Wallabies Josh Nasser, Filipo Daugunu and Kalani Thomas will return off the bench tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No.8 Harry Wilson is delighted to be back in action for the Queensland Reds and feels refreshed entering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,12061,760,85],"class_list":["post-506821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-queensland-reds","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506821","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=506821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}