{"id":333070,"date":"2025-12-07T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:05:08","slug":"former-super-league-stars-son-lands-nrl-opportunity-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333070\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Super League star&#8217;s son lands NRL opportunity for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beau Morrison, the son of former Bradford Bulls and Wakefield Trinity star Glenn, has departed Huddersfield Giants ahead of 2026 to link up with NRL outfit Newcastle Knights\u2019 Jersey Flegg Cup squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having played rugby league from the age of five and grown up in Mirfield, teenager Beau signed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/huddersfield-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huddersfield<\/a> at 15.<\/p>\n<p>He is yet to make his official first-grade bow in the game, but did score a try in a pre-season friendly against Bradford at the Accu Stadium back in January having made the step up into the Giants\u2019 reserves squad on a permanent basis at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Dad Glenn, now 49, starred Down Under for Balmain Tigers, North Sydney Bears, North Queensland Cowboys and Parramatta Eels before heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/super-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while winger Beau has not followed in his footsteps in featuring in Super League yet, he now hopes to do so by playing in the NRL \u2013 having penned a deal to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/club\/newcastle-knights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Knights<\/a>\u2018 under-21s group, competing in the Jersey Flegg Cup.<\/p>\n<p>JOIN OUR WHATSAPP COMMUNITY!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DkyqlqQEvejG4RU3K5Kuur#new_tab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE to join and have the biggest rugby league exclusives delivered straight to your device!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Bradford and Wakefield star Glenn Morrison\u2019s son Beau lands NRL opportunity with Newcastle Knights ahead of 2026<\/p>\n<p>Having hung up his boots in 2011, the same year he featured off the bench for The Exiles in a win against England, dad Glenn racked up over 320 senior appearances in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Sydney, the versatile forward \u2013 who coached Dewsbury Rams, Cleveland and the Jamaican national team \u2013 notched 96 tries in the process, with the bulk of those coming in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loverugbyleague.com\/nrl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He came out of retirement for a charity cross-code game in 2019, and then signed for union outfit Bradford Slalem, donning their colours during the 2019 winter season.<\/p>\n<p>Son Beau is no stranger to union either having been scouted by Huddersfield while playing for Old Brodleians in the 15-a-side code alongside local league side Siddal.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager becomes the latest to embark on the pathway from the Giants to the Knights, with both Dom Young and Will Pryce also having done so in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Pryce, of course, is now back in Super League with Hull FC. England international winger Young meanwhile returned for a second stint at Newcastle earlier this year after a difficult last few months with fellow NRL club Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beau Morrison, the son of former Bradford Bulls and Wakefield Trinity star Glenn, has departed Huddersfield Giants ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-333070","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\/333070","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=333070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}