The only place rugby fans can watch every match is Stan Sport. Start your free sport trial now!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n "It's something I'll take to my grave.<\/p>\n "I've watched the last 15 seconds six or seven times and each time I still get goosebumps and I can feel the exact feeling I felt on Saturday night.<\/p>\n "It was truly special to do that 10 years on from 2011 with a packed Suncorp Stadium, it was outstanding… It was a pretty unique and special time. I was able to take a minute or two in the changing rooms, to look around and soak it up and then after that there was a lot of euphoria and ecstasy, that feeling that I hadn't felt before."<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> When rugby stars' prank went horribly wrong<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Thor's heartbreaking Mother's Day interview<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Shattered Brumbies question referee's calls<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/RugbyOnNine\/status\/1391721132378628098?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Thorn, a former Highlanders player who was born in Mosgiel, Otago, has freshened up his squad with sweeping changes for the Forsyth Barr Stadium clash.<\/p>\n Jordan Petaia (leg), Harry Wilson and Alex Mafi (both concussion) are casualties from Saturday, with Filipo Daugunu, Seru Uru and Josh Nasser taking their spots.<\/p>\n Thorn has loaded up his bench with firepower including McReight, Taniela Tupou, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto and Suliasi Vunivalu.<\/p>\n Incredibly, the Reds are rank outsiders for the round one clash despite winning their competition and the Highlanders finishing fourth of five in Super Rugby Aotearoa.<\/p>\n "They are very good sides," McReight said of the Kiwis.<\/p>\n "The key difference is they love playing up-tempo, with speed, so we've had a discussion this morning about what we can expect in the next five weeks.<\/p>\n "The main thing is to break away from the Australian teams, we've played them 3-4 times each over the past year and a half and haven't played any New Zealand teams, we've just had to watch."<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1391187094706532352?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n The 22-year-old former Junior Wallabies captain – who is viewed as Michael Hooper's heir apparent at openside flanker – vowed that the Reds would take the Highlanders on at their own high octane game under the roof at Forsyth Barr Stadium.<\/p>\n "In 2018, 2019, we've done quite well against the New Zealand teams so it's about going back to how we want to play, an attacking brand," McReight said.<\/p>\n "Moving forward you'll see a lot of attacking flair from us and that's how the game should be played. We're really excited to get stuck in."<\/p>\n The grounded McReight, who still lives at home in Brisbane with his parents, was confident there would be no championship hangover despite the tight six day turnaround – and a first international trip of the year.<\/p>\n "Obviously there was a lot of celebrations and you had to put it in the back of your mind and be in the present," McReight said.<\/p>\n "But we had a meeting about it and we've got another job to do with trans-Tasman coming up. We were able to put a door on that moment and put the trophy away with the 2011 trophy so we knew that's parked.<\/p>\n "It was amazing, what happened and how it unfolded and we have this special bond in the squad but the job's not done, we have to move on."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reds star Fraser McReight insists there will be no championship hangover as Queensland prepares for their Super Rugby trans-Tasman season opener in chilly Dunedin on […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70043,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70041\/revisions\/70043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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