{"id":509069,"date":"2026-02-28T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:32:16","slug":"young-stars-and-returning-players-in-for-reds-development-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509069\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Stars and Returning Players In For Reds Development Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Dre Pakeho and Isaac Henry have been paired in the centres for today&#8217;s Reds Development XV match against Sydney club Easts at Ballymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The 2pm (Qld time) game on Ballymore Field 2 will be the genuine match minutes that the players need if any call up to the Reds comes in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Pakeho already has the benefit of two games with Queensland&#8217;s champion Super Rugby Next Gen side. This week, he announced his re-signing on a new two-year deal through 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">He will partner with Henry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The centres will play outside halves James Martens and Finn Mackay who recently had their first steps in Super Rugby Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">There will be a return for winger Heremaia Murray now he has beaten a knee niggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Backrower Toby Brial, the young brother of Reds backrower Joe, will be playing for Easts as will Henry&#8217;s former Wests team-mate Cooper Whiteside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dre Pakeho and Isaac Henry have been paired in the centres for today&#8217;s Reds Development XV match against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,12061,760,85],"class_list":["post-509069","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\/509069","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=509069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}