{"id":12291,"date":"2025-07-22T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:20:10","slug":"newcastle-knights-rule-out-move-for-forward-duo-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12291\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Knights rule out move for forward duo – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Newcastle Knights<\/a> have reportedly become the fourth NRL<\/a> team to rule out a move to sign an international front-rower and will also not make a play to sign an off-contract forward from The Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A stalwart of the Melbourne Storm<\/a> since 2017, Tui Kamikamica<\/a>‘s time at the club could come to an end sooner than expected with the Fijian skipper off-contract at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Although he has a club option in his contract for 2026, it is improbable that it will be taken up by the Victorian-based outfit who are facing salary cap struggles and will instead turn their attention to younger players such as Lazarus Vaalepu<\/a> and Ativalu Lisati<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facing uncertainty for the first time in his first-grade career, he has been recently linked with numerous teams both in Australia<\/a> and abroad in the Super League<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n

According to The Newcastle Herald<\/a>, the Newcastle Knights<\/a> have become the latest club to show no interest in the Storm front-rower joining the Brisbane Broncos<\/a>, North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> and South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"NRLPERTH, AUSTRALIA – AUGUST 05: Josh Kerr<\/a> of the Dolphins looks on during the round 23 NRL<\/a> match between Dolphins and Newcastle Knights<\/a> at Optus Stadium on August 05, 2023 in Perth, Australia<\/a>. (Photo by Will Russell\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It is understood that the Knights have also ruled out making a play to sign the off-contract Josh Kerr<\/a> from The Dolphins<\/a>, who was named in the QLD Maroons<\/a>‘ extended squad for the Origin Decider, per The Newcastle Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Starting his career at the Melbourne Storm<\/a> in their Under-20s system, Kerr is one of many off-contract forwards at The Dolphins<\/a> heading into next season and is unlikely to be handed an extension for 2026.<\/p>\n

Although he could be considered a veteran of the NRL<\/a> due to his age (29), the seven-time Indigenous All Stars representative has only featured in 109 first-grade appearances over the last seven years – 68 for the Dragons and 41 for The Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never be that person that gets taken advantage of by my club ever again, that’s something I’m very strong on,\u201d Kerr told Code Sports in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely do (want to stay). We’ve had chats with my manager and missus too. I’m very happy and comfortable here. It’s my junior club and I want to see it succeed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I’ve done the thing in the past where I thought I was playing for love at a club.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you learn very quickly it’s a business and they don’t really give a s*** \u2026 there’s a difference between loving a club and wanting to play for it and then them having a look at that and taking advantage of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m never going to be put in that position ever again and as hard as it could be (to leave) \u2026 I don’t want to put it out there. But I want to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Newcastle Knights have reportedly become the fourth NRL team to rule out a move to sign an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","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=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}