Queensland playmaker Quade Cooper has backed the Reds' flamboyant attacking game to upset a "boring" NSW in Friday night's Super 14 grudge match.

In the first niggle of the build-up to the interstate clash, Cooper also dared the Waratahs to leave their conservative plans on the Sydney Football Stadium sidelines to make the match a true rugby spectacle.

"We've got a lot of speed out wide, a lot of talent out wide and we really want to use that," Wallabies young-gun Cooper said on Monday.

"There's no use trying to play their game plan and play a simple, boring style.

"(NSW) are very much a structured side so if we can unscramble them a bit and try and pierce through them as much as possible it would disrupt their defensive line."

While the Waratahs are unbeaten competition leaders, they have been criticised for a lack of attacking inspiration, feeding off their rivals' turnovers to score.

In contrast, the young Reds are ninth after a 1-2 start to the season but have created among the most line-breaks in the competition.

"They're playing boring but they're still winning whereas our three games have been really exciting and we've lost two of them," the in-form five-eighth said.

"Winning matters but you still have to be playing well and I'm very confident with the way our team is playing."

Interstate matches are traditionally dour, no-inches-given affairs, highlighted by NSW's grinding 16-11 win in Brisbane last year.

"I'd like to make this game quite an exciting one," Cooper said.

"Over the past years there has been about three tries scored in all three games.

"If we can really throw it around and score a few tries, maybe they will as well and it will be a bit of a spectacle for the fans."

The Reds, 22-3 victors over the Cheetahs on Sunday, face a selection dilemma with winger Brando Va'aulu (groin) ruled out for a month.

Wallabies winger Digby Ioane has starred both at outside centre and out wide, meaning Queensland could either promote youngster Blair Connor to mark Lote Tuqiri on the wing or bring Charlie Fetoai into the midfield, setting up a mouth-watering Tuqiri-Ioane head-to-head battle.

The Reds will also be tested by their ability to overcome a short turnaround from their round three match, played in sapping 32-degree Brisbane heat.

"It was incredibly draining ... (but) we've just got to deal with it," said Reds assistant coach Damon Emtage.

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