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18-year-old set to join exclusive Reds club against Wild Knights in Japan

Frankie Goldsbrough of Australia (C) during the match between Australia U18s and New Zealand Schools at FMG Stadium Waikato on October 06, 2024 in Hamilton, New Zealand. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images for Rugby Australia)

Queensland coach Les Kiss has named a teenager and a former New Zealand U20 representative to make their starting debuts for the Reds, who will take on the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan on Monday for the Saitama-Queensland Shield.

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18-year-old Frankie Goldsbrough will line up at outside centre when the Reds take the field at Kumagaya Rugby Stadium, while backrower Kohan Herbert has been rewarded with a starting spot at openside flanker.

Goldsbrough will join the likes of Elton Flatley and Jordan Petaia by playing their first minutes of senior rugby for Queensland at that age. This selection in the No. 13 is a justified reward for the teenager’s progress since joining the Reds straight out of school last year.

 

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Coach Kiss has named Goldsbrough to partner Dre Pakeho in the midfield. The pair played together in the centres at Brisbane’s Anglican Church Grammar School in 2022, which makes this almost a fairytale selection for the two youngsters.

As for Herbert, the loose forward brings a wealth of experience into this role after playing for New Zealand representative teams as a junior and then Bay of Plenty in the NPC. This year, Herbert has shone brightly for Souths in Queensland’s Hospital Cup.

“It’s terrific to have these international experiences as a team and to keep building on this relationship we have with the Wild Knights,” coach Les Kiss said in a statement.

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“Ryan Smith has been a leader within the squad all season and to name him captain is a reward he deserves.

“We said from the start that this tour could provide opportunities for some players from club rugby so it’s a highlight to see Kohan and Hamish earn their spots.”

Former All Black turned Wallaby Alex Hodgman will pack down in an internationally-experienced front-row. Wallaby Josh Nasser and former All Black Jeffrey Toomaga-Allen round out a talented list in jerseys one, two and three.

Josh Canham joins captain Ryan Smith in the middle row, with Connor Vest, Herbert, and Joe Brial making up the rest of the forward pack as the loose forwards.

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In the backs, Kalani Thomas will partner Wallaby Tom Lynagh in the halves, while Pakeho will link up with Goldsbrough in the midfield. Coach Kiss has named Heremaia Murray, Floyd Aubery and new signing Mason Gordon in the outside backs.

This match is scheduled to get underway at 2:00 pm AEST on Monday, November 4. This will recognise the 40th anniversary of the sister state relationship between Saitama and Queensland.

Queensland Reds team to play Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights

  1. Alex Hodgman
  2. Josh Nasser
  3. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen
  4. Josh Canham
  5. Ryan Smith (c)
  6. Connor Vest
  7. Kohan Herbert
  8. Joe Brial
  9. Kalanai Thomas
  10. Tom Lynagh
  11. Heremaia Murray
  12. Dre Pakeho
  13. Frankie Goldsbrough
  14. Floyd Aubrey
  15. Mason Gordon

Replacements

  1. Richie Asiata
  2. Sef Fa’agase
  3. Massimo De Lutiis
  4. Taine Roiri
  5. Hamish Muller
  6. Louis Werchon
  7. Harry McLaughlin-Phillips
  8. Will Cartwright

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JW 3 hours ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Ok, managed to read the full article..

... New Zealand’s has only 14 and the professional season is all over within four months. In France, club governance is the responsibility of an independent organisation [the Ligue Nationale de Rugby or LNR] which is entirely separate from the host union [the Fédération Française de Rugby or FFR]. Down south New Zealand Rugby runs the provincial and the national game.

That is the National Provincial Championship, a competition of 14 representative union based teams run through the SH international window and only semi professional (paid only during it's running). It is run by NZR and goes for two and a half months.


Super Rugby is a competition involving 12 fully professional teams, of which 5 are of New Zealand eligibility, and another joint administered team of Pacific Island eligibility, with NZR involvement. It was a 18 week competition this year, so involved (randomly chosen I believe) extra return fixtures (2 or 3 home and away derbys), and is run by Super Rugby Pacific's own independent Board (or organisation). The teams may or may not be independently run and owned (note, this does not necessarily mean what you think of as 'privately owned').


LNR was setup by FFR and the French Government to administer the professional game in France. In New Zealand, the Players Association and Super Rugby franchises agreed last month to not setup their own governance structure for professional rugby and re-aligned themselves with New Zealand Rugby. They had been proposing to do something like the English model, I'm not sure how closely that would have been aligned to the French system but it did not sound like it would have French union executive representation on it like the LNR does.

In the shaky isles the professional pyramid tapers to a point with the almighty All Blacks. In France the feeling for country is no more important than the sense of fierce local identity spawned at myriad clubs concentrated in the southwest. Progress is achieved by a nonchalant shrug and the wide sweep of nuanced negotiation, rather than driven from the top by a single intense focus.

Yes, it is pretty much a 'representative' selection system at every level, but these union's are having to fight for their existence against the regime that is NZR, and are currently going through their own battle, just as France has recently as I understand it. A single focus, ala the French game, might not be the best outcome for rugby as a whole.


For pure theatre, it is a wonderful article so far. I prefer 'Ntamack New Zealand 2022' though.

The young Crusader still struggles to solve the puzzle posed by the shorter, more compact tight-heads at this level but he had no problem at all with Colombe.

It was interesting to listen to Manny during an interview on Maul or Nothing, he citied that after a bit of banter with the All Black's he no longer wanted one of their jersey's after the game. One of those talks was an eye to eye chat with Tamaiti Williams, there appear to be nothing between the lock and prop, just a lot of give and take. I thought TW angled in and caused Taylor to pop a few times, and that NZ were lucky to be rewarded.

f you have a forward of 6ft 8ins and 145kg, and he is not at all disturbed by a dysfunctional set-piece, you are in business.

He talked about the clarity of the leadership that helped alleviate any need for anxiety at the predicaments unfolding before him. The same cannot be said for New Zealand when they had 5 minutes left to retrieve a match winning penalty, I don't believe. Did the team in black have much of a plan at any point in the game? I don't really call an autonomous 10 vehicle they had as innovative. I think Razor needs to go back to the dealer and get a new game driver on that one.

Vaa’i is no match for his power on the ground. Even in reverse, Meafou is like a tractor motoring backwards in low gear, trampling all in its path.

Vaa'i actually stops him in his tracks. He gets what could have been a dubious 'tackle' on him?

A high-level offence will often try to identify and exploit big forwards who can be slower to reload, and therefore vulnerable to two quick plays run at them consecutively.

Yes he was just standing on his haunches wasn't he? He mentioned that in the interview, saying that not only did you just get up and back into the line to find the opposition was already set and running at you they also hit harder than anything he'd experienced in the Top 14. He was referring to New Zealands ultra-physical, burst-based Super style of course, which he was more than a bit surprised about. I don't blame him for being caught out.


He still sent the obstruction back to the repair yard though!

What wouldn’t the New Zealand rugby public give to see the likes of Mauvaka and Meafou up front..

Common now Nick, don't go there! Meafou showed his Toulouse shirt and promptly got his citizenship, New Zealand can't have him, surely?!?


As I have said before with these subjects, really enjoy your enthusiasm for their contribution on the field and I'd love to see more of their shapes running out for Vern Cotter and the like styled teams.

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