{"id":196830,"date":"2025-10-08T04:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:10:06","slug":"force-thanks-departing-duo-watts-sevele-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196830\/","title":{"rendered":"Force thanks departing duo Watts &#038; Sevele for service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Western Force thanks Mitch Watts and Papillon Sevele<br \/>\nfor their service to the Club, with the pair departing following the conclusion<br \/>\nof 2025 Super Rugby AUS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">The Club acknowledges their contributions, with both<br \/>\ncoming out of the Fortescue Academy to graduate into the Super Rugby Pacific<br \/>\nsquad over the past few seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Watts didn\u2019t make his Super Rugby Pacific debut but<br \/>\nplayed all four games in the Super Rugby AUS competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Sevele also didn\u2019t play at Super Rugby Pacific level but<br \/>\novercame serious knee injuries over the past two years to return in the<br \/>\nFortescue Premier Grade this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">Issak Fines-Leleiwasa (Fijian Drua) and Reed Prinsep<br \/>\n(retirement) have also exited the Force program following the conclusion of<br \/>\nSuper Rugby AUS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-2425b0\">#ForeverForce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force thanks Mitch Watts and Papillon Sevele for their service to the Club, with the pair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,11229],"class_list":["post-196830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196830","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=196830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}