Life at St Lucia has been a rollercoaster so far this season.

At times, UQ have looked like the side that missed the playoffs last season, but on other occasions, they’ve looked more like the team that played in the previous seven grand finals.

"We haven’t won two straight games and we haven’t lost two straight games. It’s been a pretty strange start to the season to be honest with you,” Red Heavies coach Elton Berrange told Rugby News.

“But it was probably to be expected. We started the season with a lot of new players and we have trialled a lot of new combinations. We’ve used a lot of players already and have started to settle in to our groove a little and I’m hoping we see the benefits of that over the next few weeks.

“We know what we’re capable of. Now we’ve just got to find a way to replicate our best rugby week to week.”