The Queensland Rugby Union wishes to farewell Seru Uru and Ben Volavola after their commitment to the Reds jersey in 2026.<\/p>\n
Lock-backrower Uru and flyhalf Volavola were valued members of the Queensland Reds squad and depart with positive wishes for the future from coaches and teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeru made an important impact over a lengthy period at the club. Ben brought his professionalism to the Reds to make a positive mark during his single season. \u00a0Both embark on the next stages of their careers with our good wishes,\u201d said Sam Cordingley, Reds General Manager, High Performance.<\/p>\n
Uru, 29, played 78 times for the Reds over seven seasons after making his debut in 2020.<\/p>\n
As Red #1348, he developed as a versatile forward capable of playing with equal influence as a lock or backrower. His form was rewarded with two Test caps for the Wallabies in 2024.<\/p>\n
Throughout, he maintained his spark to make a telling run or flick offload and was again one of the Reds\u2019 most reliable lineout figures in 2026.<\/p>\n
He played 13 games for the Reds in Swyftx Super Rugby Pacific in 2026. He is taking on his next opportunity in France.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started my professional rugby journey at Ballymore and have always called it home,” Uru told teammates when recently farewelled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have built great friendships at the Reds and it will always be an important part of my life.”<\/p>\n
Uru co-captained the Reds against the Saitama Pansonic Wild Knights at Ballymore last October when he was named XXXX Player of the Match for his display in the 36-26 win.<\/p>\n
Volavola, 35, was signed by the club to add backline depth and he did so with aplomb with seven appearances off the bench for the Reds in 2026.<\/p>\n
His experience to plug in as replacement flyhalf was on show at Super Round in Christchurch when he had a double-touch in the fine Tim Ryan try.<\/p>\n
Volavola\u2019s commitment has extended to valuable contributions at fullback for his club Sunnybank.<\/p>\n
Volavola will always be Red #1428.<\/p>\n
He has signed with the Fijian Drua for 2027 with an ambition to represent Fiji at the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queensland Rugby Union wishes to farewell Seru Uru and Ben Volavola after their commitment to the Reds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,12061,760,85],"class_list":["post-819753","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\/819753","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=819753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}