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In-form forward joins Queensland Reds’ growing list of casualties

Seru Uru of the Reds scores a try during the round four Super Rugby Pacific match between Melbourne Rebels and Queensland Reds at AAMI Park, on March 15, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)

In-form lock Seru Uru has joined the Queensland Reds’ growing list of casualties as coach Les Kiss avoids turning into a “culdesac of doom” to escape their Super Rugby Pacific slide.

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Uru had thumb surgery on Monday and will miss at least four weeks while merging centre Josh Flook (shoulder) is also in doubt for Friday’s clash in Brisbane with the Highlanders.

Co-captain Tate McDermott and fellow Wallaby Fraser McReight both copped three-week suspensions for their foul pay in a gutting loss to Moana Pasifika in New Zealand last Friday.

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Kiss believes there have been “inconsistencies” in suspensions this season but that the punishments were no surprise and that “it all evens out”.

“It wasn’t ideal in the game, fairly costly as we saw,” Kiss said of McDermott’s suspension.

“He’s ridden that hard, as he would. It’s uncharacteristic but it’s been dealt with, we’ll move on.”

McReight’s suspension could yet be reduced by one game, while Kiss said veteran playmaker James O’Connor (hamstring) would not play against the Highlanders.

Pasifika scored in the final moments to pinch a rare win and consign the Reds to a third-straight loss after they had surged to a 3-1 start under the new coach.

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At 3-4 they sit sixth and eye a crunch clash with the 10th-placed Highlanders (2-5) at Suncorp Stadium.

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“Now there’s a different expectation about how we respond,” he said.

“The numbers say our error rate at the wrong time of the game was costly.

“We’re careful not to go down culdesacs of doom you can’t recover from.

“We’re just addressing the real critical things in front of us that we’re trying to get right.”

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The whole thing was absolutely delightful from a scrummaging perspective. Both teams were 100% certain they could just push the other team off the ball and both teams scrummed like it. I love the dark arts tactical battles, but there’s something really refreshing about a game where both the teams in the pushing contest just want to push. But, yeah, South Africa were the clear winners of that part of the game.


Scrums went as follows in the first game (I’m going from a handy dandy compilation video I made from screen recordings so I don’t have exact ref calls)

1. Canadian feed - Reset. On second feed, Canada gets the ball away, but South African scrum pushes into them

2. South African feed - South Africa gets the ball away clean

3. Canadian feed - Free kick to South Africa

4. South African feed - South Africa pulls the ball forward in the scrum a few meters, gets advantage, and gets the ball away clean

5. Canadian feed - Canada gets the ball away clean.

6. South African feed - South Africa push Canada backwards, but give away a penalty

7. South African feed - South Africa pulls the ball forward in the scrum maybe 10ish meters, gets advantage, and gets the ball away clean

8. South African feed - Free kick to Canada

9. South African feed - South Africa gets the ball away clean

10. South African feed - South Africa makes meters in the scrum and gets the ball away clean

11. South African feed - Reset. On second feed, South Africa makes meters in the scrum, gets advantage, and gets the ball away clean

12. Canadian feed - South Africa push them backwards, but give away a penalty

13. Canadian feed - 75 minutes into the game, Canada pulls the ball forward at the scrum and get advantage


I haven’t done such thorough analysis for the second test, but if you enjoy scrumming at all, you should really watch these games. They’re the sort of games where you look forwards to knock ons because the scrums are so good.

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