2024 Queensland Reds season

Queensland Reds
2024 season
Lang Park during half-time of the round ten fixture between the Reds and the Blues.
ChairmanBrett Clark
CoachLes Kiss
StadiumLang Park, Brisbane
Super Rugby Pacific5th
Super Rugby Pacific FinalsQuarter-finals
Wales tourLost
Tonga tourWon
Highest home attendance17,782 vs. ACT Brumbies
30 March
Lowest home attendance10,864 vs. Melbourne Rebels
10 May
Average home league attendance14,516
Biggest win59–13 vs. Western Force
(Home)
25 May
Biggest defeat43–21 vs. Chiefs
(Away)
7 June
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The 2024 Queensland Reds season is the 28th and current Queensland Reds season in the Super Rugby since entering the professional era in 1996. In addition to the domestic competition (Super Rugby Pacific) played across the Tasman and the Pacific, the Reds will also host Wales on their tour of Australia following the conclusion of the season.

Squad and personnel

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Coaching personnel

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Following the resignation of former Reds coach Brad Thorn at the end of the 2023 season, the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) unveiled Queenslander Les Kiss as coach of the team just 39 days later.[1] It was believed in June that the QRU had interest in a number of coaches with significant experience domestically and internationally.[2] One such coach was The Sydney Morning Herald-endorsed candidate[3] Argentina head coach (2022–2023) and former Australia coach (2014–2019) Michael Cheika.[2] Cheika's duties with Argentina were to end following the 2023 Rugby World Cup, making him available before the 2024 season. Cheika had previously won the Super Rugby with the New South Wales Waratahs in 2014 before becoming coach of Australia. His The other two speculated interests of the QRU were London Irish coach Les Kiss and the former Wallabies Director of Rugby Scott Johnson.[2]

With reporting in early July pointing to Kiss being the favourite candidate,[4] it wasn't until late July that Kiss was confirmed as the new head coach.[1] Kiss was selected over forty-plus prospective coaches,[4] which included former Wallaby and Tonga coach (2016–2023) Toutai Kefu, former New Zealand assistant coach (2020–2022) Brad Mooar, former Australia defence coach and Australia U20 coach Nathan Grey, and Queensland Reds assistant under Thorn Mick Heenan.[4]

Once Kiss assumed the coaching position he brought along much of his coaching staff at London Irish.[5]

Coaching personnel[5][6]
Position Name
Head Coach Les Kiss
Assistant Coach[6] Jonathan Fisher[7]
Zane Hilton[a]
Brad Davis
Academy Coach Dale Roberson

Squad

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Senior squad

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The Queensland Reds squad for the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season was announced in November 2023.[9]

Reds senior squad

Props

Hookers

Locks

Loose forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

Outside backs

(cc) denotes team co-captains, Bold denotes internationally capped, DEV denotes a development squad player, ST denotes a short-term signing, denotes a player ruled out for the season with injury.
  1. ^ Hilton has also been cited as the Forwards Coach.[8]

Academy squad

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Reds academy squad

Props

  • Nick Bloomfield
  • Trevor King[a]
  • Baguio Johnson-Tiumalu

Hookers

  • Ollie Barrett

Locks

  • Charlie Brosnan
  • Ben Daniels

Loose forwards

  • Joe Liddy
  • Tom Robinson

Scrum-halves

  • Willem Johnstone

Fly-halves

  • Will Nason

Centres

  • Xavier Rubens

Outside backs

  • Jarrod Homan

Transfers

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For player movements before and during the 2024 season, see List of 2023–24 Super Rugby transfers (Australia) § Reds.

Season results

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Pre-season trials

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Reds score shown first.

2024 Pre-season trials
Date Venue Team Score Result (Margin) Ref.
Saturday, 3 February Ballymore Stadium, Herston (Brisbane) Western Force 19–21 Lost (2 points) [21]
Saturday, 10 February Gallas Fox Park, Roma Waratahs 32–7 Won (25 points) [22][23]

Summary and fixtures

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Round123456789101112131415
GroundHAHAAH—AHHAHAHA
ResultWLWWLL—LWLWWLWW
Position443255666655555
Source: Super Rugby
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
Notes: Positions show the situation at the end of the corresponding Game Round (GR); not the position at the conclusion of matches or game days

Reds score shown first.

2024 Super Rugby season
Rnd. Date Venue Team Score Result (Margin) Attendance Pos. Ref.
1 Saturday, 24 February Lang Park, Milton, (Brisbane) Waratahs 40–22 Won (18 points) 14,593 4th [24]
2 Sunday, 3 March Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Olympic Park (Melbourne) Hurricanes 33–38 Lost (5 points)[b] 10,339 4th [25]
3 Saturday, 9 March Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane) Chiefs 25–19 Won (6 points) 16,725 3rd [26][27]
4 Friday, 15 March Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Olympic Park (Melbourne) Melbourne Rebels 53–26 Won (27 points) — 2nd [28][29]
5 Saturday, 23 March Perth Rectangular Stadium, Perth Western Force 31–40 Lost (9 points) 5,462 5th [30][31]
6 Saturday, 30 March Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane) ACT Brumbies 19–20 Lost (1 point) 17,782 5th [32][33]
7 Bye 6th [34]
8 Friday, 12 April Okara Park, Morningside (Whangārei) Moana Pasifika 14–17 Lost (3 points) — 6th [35][36]
9 Friday, 19 April Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane) Highlanders 31–0 Won (31 points) 13,000 6th [37][38]
10 Saturday, 27 April Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane) Blues 34–41 Lost (7 points) 16,325 6th [39][40]
11 Saturday, 4 May Rugby League Park, Addington (Christchurch) Crusaders 33–28 Won (5 points) — 5th [41][42]
12 Friday, 10 May Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane) Melbourne Rebels 26–22 Won (4 points) 10,864 5th [43][44]
13 Saturday, 18 May HFC Bank Stadium, Laucala Bay (Suva) Fijian Drua 19–28 Lost (9 points) — 5th [45][46]
14 Saturday, 25 May Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane) Western Force 59–13 Won (46 points) 12,321 5th [47][48]
15 Friday, 31 May Sydney Football Stadium, Moore Park (Sydney) Waratahs 27–26 Won (1 point) 12,018 5th [49][50]
Finals series
QF Friday, 7 June Waikato Stadium, Hamilton Chiefs 21–43 Lost (22 points) 11,639 — [51][52]

Season standings

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2024 Super Rugby Pacific standings
Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts Qualification
3 Brumbies 14 12 0 2 410 311 +99 54 41 4 0 52 Advance to Quarter-finals
4 Chiefs 14 9 0 5 486 311 +175 66 43 5 2 43
5 Reds 14 8 0 6 444 340 +104 66 46 4 4 40
6 Highlanders 14 6 0 8 305 402 −97 37 54 2 2 28
7 Drua 14 6 0 8 325 427 −102 40 60 1 1 26
Updated to match(es) played on 1 June 2024. Source: Super Rugby

Wales tour

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Further information: 2024 Wales tour of Australia

Reds score shown first.

2024 Wales tour
Date Venue Team Score Result (Margin) Ref.
Friday, 19 July Lang Park, Milton (Brisbane)  Wales 35–36 Lost (1 point) [53]

Tonga tour

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Reds score shown first.

2024 Tonga tour
Date Venue Team Score Result (Margin) Ref.
Friday, 26 July Teufaiva Sport Stadium, Nukuʻalofa  Tonga 41–14 Won (27 points) [54]

Statistics

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Does not include tour matches.

Notes

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  1. ^ Born in Fiji, King was raised in Gladstone, Queensland and represented the Junior Wallabies at the 2023 U20 Championship.[10]
  2. ^ In Golden point.

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