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Reds wunderkind Jodan Petaia ruled out of Jaguares match with shoulder injury

Jordan Petaia. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

A shoulder injury at training has ruled gun centre Jordan Petaia out of winless Queensland’s clash with the Jaguares in Argentina on Sunday.

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Petaia will have scans on his return to Brisbane, the latest setback a cruel blow after a foot injury derailed his 2019 Super Rugby campaign in round two.

Fullback Bryce Hegarty drops to the bench, with winger Jock Campbell shifted to the back after the Reds missed their chance to topple South Africa’s Lions last weekend.

“We’re gutted for Jordan,” coach Brad Thorn said.

“He’ll return home with the squad and will be looked at for further diagnosis. It’s personally frustrating for him and also for us.”

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Petaia will be replaced by in-form centre Hunter Paisami while forward Harry Hockings (hand) returns from injury to the bench.

Chris Feauai-Sautia will play his first game of 2020 after being named on the wing, while Angus Blyth will start at lock and shift Lukhan Salakaia-Loto to the backrow.

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Paisami has impressed off the bench so far this season in narrow losses to the Brumbies and Lions but will have his hands full against last year’s grand finalists.

“We’ve had two tight games and we’re looking to finish this tour (well and) take something back with us,” Thorn said.

“We’ve got two bonus points but we’re looking for that win to put us in a good space.”

Reds: Jock Campbell, Chris Feauai-Sautia, Hunter Paisami, Hamish Stewart, Henry Speight, James O’Connor, Tate McDermott, Harry Wilson, Liam Wright (c), Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, Angus Blyth, Izack Rodda, Taniela Tupou, Alex Mafi, JP Smith. Reserves: Sean Farrell, Dane Zander, Josh Nasser, Harry Hockings, Angus Scott-Young, Moses Sorovi, Isaac Lucas, Bryce Hegarty.

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– AAP

New Reds fullback Jock Campbell was optimistic ahead of jumping on the play to Argentina:

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Flankly 2 hours ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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