{"id":103090,"date":"2025-08-28T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103090\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T23:54:08","slug":"cross-code-sensations-dragons-sign-teenage-brothers-on-new-deals-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103090\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-code sensations: Dragons sign teenage brothers on new deals &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Preparing their roster for the future, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> have handed out new contracts to two of the best cross-code players under the age of 18 who are also brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Stars in both rugby league and rugby union, Creighton and Daniel Meafou are part of the next generation of players coming through the Dragons&#8217; pathways system and have already started to make a name for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Co-captain of the Illawarra Steelers in the Under-17s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/harold-matthews-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Matthews Cup<\/a> competition, Creighton has agreed to a long-term deal which will see him join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> from 2027 until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Daniel &#8211; the older of the two brothers &#8211; has signed a train-and-trial contract with the Dragons for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 2008, Creighton is not only excelling in rugby league but has also been a standout in the 15-man code, in which he was named in the Under-16s Australian Wallabies squad after scoring a game-changing intercept try in the Under-16s Super Rugby competition for the NSW Waratahs.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Daniel (born in 2006) had an injury-interupted 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/sg-ball-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SG Ball Cup<\/a> season for the Illawarra Steelers, but captained them the previous year at lock and is set to make his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/jersey-flegg-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jersey Flegg Cup<\/a> debut next year as he pushes to play in reserve-grade.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Preparing their roster for the future, the St George Illawarra Dragons have handed out new contracts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-103090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}