Wellington Hurricanes<\/a> and third-placed Brumbies have been beaten in the stifling Fijian heat \u200bthis season.<\/p>\n“It was significant for us today,” Kiss told reporters after the 21-6 win.<\/p>\n
“The huge respect we had for the \u2060Drua was represented \u200bby the way that we approached our defence.<\/p>\n
“To keep them try-less I think was an unbelievable effort by the boys.”<\/p>\n
Kiss rested Wallabies Carter Gordon, Fraser McReight and Zane Nonggorr for \u200cthe trip to Fiji but was rewarded with some fine performances from other players, most notably backup flyhalf Harry McLaughlin-Phillips.<\/p>\n
Powerful Fiji-born winger Filipo Daugunu was immense on both sides of the ball, further strengthening his case for a starting role for the Wallabies in the July tests.<\/p>\n
Kiss said there was still plenty of room for improvement for the team, especially with a trip to the New Zealand capital \u200cto face the red-hot Hurricanes coming up next weekend.<\/p>\n
“We’re making \u200bsure that we continue to grow our game,” he \u200cadded.<\/p>\n
“There’s elements of our game we’re still not completely happy with, but when it matters the right things are happening for us. It’s a credit to the boys, they just keep challenging themselves to be better at \u2060things.<\/p>\n
“We weren’t perfect but \u2060we found the right \u200csolutions at the right time today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Les Kiss has warned that his Queensland Reds side have yet to \u2060hit their full stride in Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-558918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558918","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=558918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}