{"id":151073,"date":"2025-09-18T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151073\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:14:07","slug":"ex-nrl-centre-joins-new-team-to-continue-rugby-league-playing-career-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151073\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL centre joins new team to continue rugby league playing career &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/konrad-hurrell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konrad Hurrell<\/a>, a former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a>\u00a0centre for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/gold-coast-titans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Coast Titans<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/new-zealand-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Warriors<\/a>, has agreed to sign with a new team, which will see him continue his rugby league playing career.<\/p>\n<p>After being de-registered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a> outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/super-league\/british-teams\/st-helens-rlfc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Helens RLFC<\/a>, Hurrell has decided to exit the competition but will remain overseas after inking a deal with FC Lezignan, who compete in the Super XIII (formerly known as the French Elite One Championship).<\/p>\n<p>Last playing in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> in 2018, the 12-time Tongan international was a powerhouse in the centres and was extremely quick for his size, but lacked consistency and struggled to keep himself in shape.<\/p>\n<p>This saw him play 71 matches and score 41 tries for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/new-zealand-warriors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Warriors<\/a> (2012-16) and 45 games and 14 tries for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/gold-coast-titans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Coast Titans<\/a>\u00a0(2016-18).<\/p>\n<p>He was also selected to represent the World All-Stars in 2016.<\/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; Konrad Hurrell, a former\u00a0NRL\u00a0centre for the\u00a0Gold Coast Titans\u00a0and\u00a0New Zealand Warriors, has agreed to sign with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-151073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151073","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=151073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}