Les Kiss's looming Ballymore exit isn't distracting him or the Queensland Reds ahead of a tricky Super Rugby Pacific trip that will shape the finals fate of their Australian rivals.
Costly, frustrating losses to the Chiefs and Western Force have scuppered the Reds' hopes of a top-three finish and home quarter-final with two rounds to play.
Instead Kiss's men are in a fight to qualify at all, with only bonus-point wins against Moana Pasifika and Fijian Drua able to drag them into fourth.
Sitting sixth, wins in what could be Pasifika's final home game this Saturday, and then at home to the Drua, would leave the NSW Waratahs (seventh) needing two bonus-point wins to jump them.
The Brumbies can still sneak into third with two bonus-point wins while the Force need two big wins and a string of other results to go their way to finish sixth.
