Fan Vote Starts for Reds Legends XV from 30 Years of Super Rugby

Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 4:49 AM
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by Reds Media Unit
Celebrating 30 Years of Super Rugby with the Reds Legends XV
Celebrating 30 Years of Super Rugby with the Reds Legends XV

Fancy yourself as a selector for the Queensland Reds?

Here's your chance as we let fans and rugby lovers pick our Legends XV.

The Reds are celebrating 30 years of Super Rugby with your fan vote here on the best players for each position.

The Legends XV competition is even backed by XXXX, the Reds' major sponsor at the birth of Super Rugby in 1996.

The selection period is from 1996 to the current day, rugby's professional era. That period covers more than 350 Reds players, the 2011 Super Rugby triumph and the 2021 Super Rugby AU title win which drew more than 40,000 fans to Suncorp Stadium.

John Eales
John Eales...towering figure for XXXX Legends XV selection

This is the chance to honour our greatest Reds from John Eales to Fraser McReight and everyone in between from the mid-'90s to now.

You pick one player from the five nominees per position via our easy-to-use Legends XV Selector tab on this page.

Like any selector, you are going to have hard choices.

Who did you pick at scrumhalf when Tate McDermott and Will Genia are both world-class contenders and cult heroes to different generations at Suncorp Stadium?

fraser mcreight
Fraser McReight...in the Legends XV debate with David Wilson, David Croft, Beau Robinson and Liam Gill at openside flanker

Or, at openside flanker, when 1999 World Cup-winner David Wilson and Fraser McReight are amongst a top field of candidates.

At hooker, how does the feisty precision of Michael Foley in the 1990s compare to fellow Wallabies Sean Hardman, Stephen Moore, dreadlocked Saia Faingaa and modern  trump Matt Faessler?

At lock, James Horwill or his long-time partner Rob Simmons may be competing for one spot.

At No.8, 1999 World Cup-winner Toutai Kefu once galvanised fans like Harry Wilson does today with his own big ball-running and handling. Neither had the afro of Radike Samo, who earned a cult following for a shorter yet golden period. As selector, you have to make the call.

The selection period just covers the professional era. While Tim Horan won a World Cup in 1991 in the amateur era when he played more than 50 times for Queensland, he also played 52 times for the Reds in Super Rugby's professional era and won a second World Cup in 1999.

It's up to you to judge how each player's case stacks up.

Get selecting and start the debate because we definitely won't all agree.

The Legends XV Selector tab will keep a running total of which players lead the votes for each position in the XV.

It's fun and it's worthy recognition of the great players, matchwinners, stalwarts and crowd favourites who have excelled for the Reds over the past 30 years.

Get selecting. 

The same exciting Legends XV vote is going on across the 11 Super Rugby Pacific clubs.

From Monday, February 9, the position winners from each Club Legends XV will go head-to-head to find Super Rugby's Legends XV with fans again voting for the greatest player in each position across the three decades of Super Rugby.

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