A day after being referred to as as much as the Wallabies for the primary time, rising star Tom Lynagh has put pen to paper to signal a contract extension with the Queensland Reds.
Lynagh was already contracted till the top of 2025, however in a significant nod to Les Kiss and his teaching crew, the playmaker has chosen to increase his time at Ballymore till the top of 2026, The Roar can reveal.
His retention comes regardless of big curiosity from Italian coach Gonzalo Quesada, who was eager to lure the fashionable younger fly-half to Europe to hitch his older brother Louis.
You may perceive why too, with the playmaker displaying most of the traits his father, Michael, displayed throughout his adorned profession.
“I see a really sharp mind, imaginative and prescient and he additionally has time,” the voice of rugby Gordon Bray advised The Roar Rugby podcast final week.
“I see a younger Michael Lynagh, he’s a clone of his dad. He’s clearly a really proficient participant.”
Queensland Reds rising star Tom Lynagh has prolonged his keep at Ballymore till the top of 2026. (Photograph by Pete Dovgan/Velocity Media/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)
Bray isn’t the one choose to assume so both, with Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt naming the 21-year-old in his 38-man squad to tackle Wales and Georgia over the following month.
His choice comes after one other promising season for the Reds, the place he was instrumental within the facet making one other quarter-final.
Whereas the Reds have been stopped on the quarter-finals by the Chiefs for the second straight season, Lynagh’s poise and robust talent set have stood out since making his Tremendous Rugby debut towards the Hurricanes final 12 months.
“I feel proper from the beginning of the season, Tom, was hitting the ball lengthy,” Schmidt mentioned on Friday at his first Wallabies squad announcement.
“He’s a brave man. Anybody who will get up is, I wouldn’t say shortly from Samipeni Finau hitting him, however he received up and continued to play.
“And he challenges the road. He’s received good acceleration.
“So, you understand, he’s younger and he’s nonetheless received loads to be taught. And we’re going to attempt to fast-track that studying over the following 4 weeks, actually.”
Lynagh’s lengthy boot was on show towards the Waratahs within the closing spherical of the common season, with the playmaker banging over a penalty from close to midway to safe the Reds a dramatic win over their arch-rivals.
His hyperlink play is one thing that can have additionally impressed Kiss and Schmidt, with the revered coaches working alongside Irish legend Johnny Sexton for years in Eire.
Whereas it’s unlikely Lynagh will begin towards Wales, with Noah Lolesio anticipated to get first crack at carrying the No.10 jersey below Schmidt, the blonde-haired playmaker might get a possibility later in July.
