{"id":285133,"date":"2025-11-15T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285133\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:22:07","slug":"moana-pasifika-release-assistant-coach-stephen-jones-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285133\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana Pasifika release assistant coach Stephen Jones early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moana Pasifika assistant coach Stephen Jones has been granted an early release to return to the United Kingdom, where he will take up a role with Red Bull-backed English Premiership club Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>The former Wales international has been appointed assistant coach at Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff.co.nz reports that after two years in New Zealand, he says the opportunity to move closer to his family was too good to turn down.<\/p>\n<p>Jones says he loved his time with Moana Pasifika.<\/p>\n<p>He says learning about the culture and customs, and seeing the players grow not just on the field but as people, was a highlight of his experience.<\/p>\n<p>Jones adds that the Moana Pasifika movement is something truly special\u2014an experience he has never had before and he will cherish the memories.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Stuff.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moana Pasifika assistant coach Stephen Jones has been granted an early release to return to the United Kingdom,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,29898],"class_list":{"0":"post-285133","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","12":"tag-super-rugby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285133","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=285133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}