Watch every second of the 2026 Wallabies season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nLynagh has barely featured throughout 2026 as the young playmaker continues to deal with injury.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old has only managed 18 minutes of action, coming off the bench against the Hurricanes in round seven of Super Rugby Pacific.<\/p>\n
But the domestic competition looms as the prime chance to make his case for a Test recall alongside new signing Perese.<\/p>\n
Perese returns to Australia alongside Hewat after their stint with English side Leicester, with Hewat eager to get started at the Reds with the talented backs.<\/p>\n
“They should be fit and ready to go hopefully for that competition so looking to really blend not only the youth but some experienced players as well,” Hewat said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been on the grass for a couple of weeks now and working with the young guys here, it’s been really impressive.”<\/p>\n
Hewat made his name with the NSW Waratahs as a player, returning to Australia after spending close to two decades overseas in England and Japan.<\/p>\n
“I’m really, really happy to be back. When the opportunity arose, speaking with both Vern [Cotter, head coach] and Sam [Cordingley, Reds GM of High Performance], it’s something I jumped at,” he said.
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“I can see stability both on and off the field here, and it’s something that really attracted me to come back to Queensland. <\/p>\n
“We’ve got 17 Wallabies at the moment, but what else impressed me coming back was just our young crop of players we’ve got here. I was really excited to come back and work with the more experienced, but also those younger kids that are coming through.
There’s a really good group of players here.”<\/p>\n
The former Black Rams Tokyo head coach is eager to build his skills under incoming head coach Cotter, who is out to continue his reputation of bringing titles to clubs.<\/p>\n
“He’s won competitions all over the world. Obviously more recently he’s won with the Blues, with Super Rugby, so he knows what success looks like; he knows what it takes to get there,” Hewat said on Cotter.<\/p>\n
“I’m really looking forward to working with him and learning from him and taking this team to another level.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Queensland Reds assistant Peter Hewat is hopeful Tom Lynagh and new recruit Izaia Perese will feature during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,12061,760,85],"class_list":["post-859392","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\/859392","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=859392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}