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\n Steinwede is the stepson of veteran NRL playmaker Kieran Foran.
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Veteran playmaker Kieran Foran may have called time on his illustrious playing career with the Titans, but there’s no doubt he’s been keeping a watchful eye on his former club given the family connection that wants to follow in his footsteps.<\/p>\n
A new face from the 318-game star’s family has joined Gold Coast’s squad this pre-season, with Kieran’s stepson Phoenix Steinwede given a chance to earn a NRL contract with a train-and-trial opportunity following a promising 2025 with the Tweed Seagulls.<\/p>\n
“I think this is a huge chance for my own personal development, being able to learn off a lot of these experienced boys that are part of the Titans squad,” Steinwede told titans.com.au.<\/p>\n
“I’ve really enjoyed my time up here and there’s an exciting opportunity to create a new start for myself with my footy.”<\/p>\n
It was a wretched first season for the 23-year-old in the Hostplus Cup due to injury, sidelined after a stellar beginning to his Queensland journey, making the switch from the Roosters to not only reinvigorate his rugby league career but be closer to family.<\/p>\n
But despite only playing six games, Steinwede felt his first season at Piggabeen was a defining one under Dave Penna, eager to further improve on the foundations he cemented on and off the field.<\/p>\n
“I think it was a good building year for myself,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I met a lot of new boys, so that allowed me to build a lot of new relations through the year.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, I got injured and spent half the year out, but I think the work I did around the club really built a standpoint for myself.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited to keep building on it.”<\/p>\n
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\n Steinwede is the stepson of veteran NRL playmaker Kieran Foran.
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With still a number of spots remaining on the Titans roster, the hard-running edge forward is working towards a spot in Josh Hannay’s squad for 2026, leaning on newly-extended Titan and Origin representative Beau Fermor for tips and further development in the position.<\/p>\n
“My time here is about looking at these senior boys that I’m able to come here and learn off and as a back-rower, I really want to watch Beau and see what he does at training<\/p>\n
“Even the senior middles here and being able to learn off them and build off their game will be hugely valuable.”<\/p>\n
His stepdad may be coaching with the Sea Eagles now, but Steinwede has kept in constant touch with him throughout the first month at the Titans.<\/p>\n
But, there’s been no empathy from Foz when it comes to the rigours of pre-season preparation, having been front and centre of 17 of them across his career.<\/p>\n
“He’s been in my ear a fair bit,” Steinwede said with a big grin.<\/p>\n
“He actually texted me on day one saying… ‘I’m glad I’m not you today, son’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran playmaker Kieran Foran may have called time on his illustrious playing career with the Titans, but there’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-315690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315690","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=315690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}