{"id":256477,"date":"2025-11-02T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:27:08","slug":"queensland-rugby-league-icon-falls-into-nsw-hands-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256477\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland rugby league icon falls into NSW hands\u2014sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/sydney-roosters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Roosters<\/a> supremo Nick Politis is set to be the new owner of Brisbane\u2019s most historic rugby league watering hole, The Caxton.<\/p>\n<p>Located just a stone\u2019s throw from Suncorp Stadium on Caxton Street, the Queensland Government website currently lists an application by Eumundi Group Limited, which is owned Politis\u2019 company SEQ Hospitality Group, as \u2018pending\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the reported $50 million deal is approved, the circa 1864 pub in Petrie Terrace will become the latest in a growing portfolio of entertainment venues across south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales owned by SEQ Hospitality Group.<\/p>\n<p>While nowadays Politis is most readily associated with Sydney, the Greek-born businessman actually grew up in Queensland attending Ipswich Grammar School and the University of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a data-testid=\"card--article-thumbnail\" role=\"article\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/munster-kangaroos-ashes-pitch-invader-must-be-kevvies-cousin\/108e68001929af88ac0cccd0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Munster\u2019s hilarious take on pitch invader, \u2018Must have been Kevvie\u2019s cousin\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one of the more intriguing side stories, The Caxton is located across the road and barely thirty meters from The Beetson Hotel which was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.com\/news\/2024\/08\/30\/the-beetson-hotel-brisbane\/#:~:text=Following%20the%20Commission&#039;s%20purchase%20of,will%20manage%20the%20hotel%20function.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">purchased<\/a> by the ARL Commission in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the hotel\u2019s own website, The Caxton has been owned and operated by the Farquhar family since 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Roosters supremo Nick Politis is set to be the new owner of Brisbane\u2019s most historic rugby league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-256477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256477","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=256477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}