{"id":219229,"date":"2025-10-17T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219229\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:03:07","slug":"warriors-poach-standout-rugby-union-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219229\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors poach standout rugby union prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby league&#8217;s growing influence in New Zealand has continued after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/new-zealand-warriors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors<\/a> signed standout rugby union prospect Harry Inch.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old will link up with the Auckland-based outfit on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Inch was considered one of the country&#8217;s most promising young playmakers in the 15-man code, having made the New Zealand Schools side and been a member of the Crusaders&#8217; development system.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/former-nrl-referee-guilty-assault-racial-slurs-gavin-morris\/2a493bd2cfa2ac571902e41f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former NRL ref guilty of assault, racial slurs against students<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warriors recruitment boss Andrew McFadden spoke about the addition of the former rugby five-eighth product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been interested in Harry for some time and we\u2019re delighted to sign him,\u201d McFadden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a terrific player and a great young person with all the attributes needed to go a long way in rugby league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs well as his set of skills, he has a real toughness about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sporting a trademark curly mullet, Inch will hope to emulate Warriors great Simon Mannering, who followed a similar path from Nelson College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby league&#8217;s growing influence in New Zealand has continued after the Warriors signed standout rugby union prospect Harry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-219229","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\/219229","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=219229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}