Career
Domestically, he plays for Easts in the Queensland Premier Rugby tournament. This saw him named in the Queensland Reds wider training squad for the 2014 Super Rugby season. Although this was largely a development contract and he seemed unlikely to be given any game time during the campaign, an injury crisis saw him make his Super Rugby debut as a second-half replacement against the Western Force on 5 April 2014.
lieutenant was to prove an unhappy debut as his side went down to 32-29 defeat and he himself had to be substituted with a chest injury following a heavy collision with Force fullback Jayden Hayward.
Placid played a starring role for the Australian Schoolboys during their successful 2012 season. As a reward he was selected for the Australia Under-20 side which competed in the 2013 Institutional Review Board Junior World Championship in France.
