{"id":195863,"date":"2025-10-07T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195863\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:26:09","slug":"albert-hopoate-warrington-wolves-sign-outside-back-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195863\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Hopoate: Warrington Wolves sign outside back on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warrington Wolves have signed outside back Albert Hopoate on a two-year contract from NRL side Canberra Raiders from next season.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old, brother of former St Helens full-back Will Hopoate, has scored 13 tries in 42 NRL appearances as well as 14 tries in 31 in the NSW Cup.<\/p>\n

Hopoate joins off the back of suffering a serious knee injury while playing for the Raiders’ NSW Cup team earlier this season, the third time he has suffered an anterior cruciate knee ligament (ACL) injury during his career.<\/p>\n

“I feel blessed for the opportunity to join Warrington and it’s a move myself and my family are really excited about,” Hopoate told the club’s official website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“After a difficult season this year I’m looking forward now to getting back playing and enjoying my footy. I believe my best years are coming up in front of me now.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to get over, meet my new team-mates and the fans, and experience what Super League is all about.”<\/p>\n

Hopoate is Warrington’s fourth new singing for 2026, joining Liam Byrne, Toafofoa Sipley and Tevita Pangai Jr.<\/p>\n

He joins having completed an “independent and rigorous medical assessment”, the club added.<\/p>\n

“Albert is a great signing for us here at Warrington,” head coach Sam Burgess added.<\/p>\n

“We’re looking forward to welcoming him into our group and for him to develop his game over here in Super League.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warrington Wolves have signed outside back Albert Hopoate on a two-year contract from NRL side Canberra Raiders from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-195863","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\/195863","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=195863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}