Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThey conceded just six points in that clash but have leaked 52 and 42 in losses since – in Wellington to the Hurricanes and a costly one to the Force – letting a top-three spot slip to instead teeter in sixth.<\/p>\n
Assessing the damage, Kiss thinks the Fiji result took the wind out of them but expects the Reds (4-3) to be more like their old selves on Saturday.<\/p>\n
That might not be enough though, with defending champions the Crusaders (fifth, 4-3) chasing a third consecutive 50-plus score for the first time in club history and boasting a staggering Reds record.<\/p>\n
They have won 14 of the last 15 games against the Reds and triumphed in the last five Suncorp Stadium contests by an average of 17.6 points.<\/p>\n
Not since the Reds’ solitary title in 2011 have the visitors been defeated in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
“They’ve got a world-class team, Leicester (Fainga’anuku) at 13 is pretty deadly and their centre combination against ours is going to be really exciting,” Reds captain Fraser McReight said.<\/p>\n
“Position to position, testing ourselves, it’s exciting.<\/p>\n
“The collision battle – winning that area that they love as well – and just getting up for it (will be key).”<\/p>\n
The Reds have a bye next week, followed by tests against the Blues in Christchurch and home games against the Brumbies and Chiefs that will define their season.<\/p>\n
Reds utility back Filipo Daugunu, who has continued his fine form on both sides of the ball this season, will play his 100th Super Rugby game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queensland Reds are staring down a two-game losing skid and horror home record against the Crusaders, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,29897,12061,760,85,48013],"class_list":{"0":"post-598261","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-crusaders","11":"tag-queensland-reds","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-rugby-pacific"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598261","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=598261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}