{"id":333159,"date":"2025-12-07T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333159\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:58:12","slug":"former-huddersfield-giants-youngster-signs-with-nrl-side-newcastle-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333159\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Huddersfield Giants youngster signs with NRL side Newcastle Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NRL outfit Newcastle Knights have signed former Huddersfield Giants youngster Beau Morrison ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Morrison will be a member of the club\u2019s pathway programme and he is expected to start the season in the club\u2019s Jersey Flegg Cup squad, a competition for those players aged 21 or under.<\/p>\n

The youngster has been with Huddersfield for five seasons, joining the club as a schoolboy and working his way up through the youth ranks and up to the verge of the first-team picture.<\/p>\n

He made the step up to the reserves ranks on a full-time basis at the end of the 2024 season and after impressing in pre-season, he got the chance to run out for the Giants<\/a> first-team last January.<\/p>\n

The outing came in a friendly contest against Bradford Bulls at the Accu Stadium, with the winger marking his debut with a try, touching down in the corner.<\/p>\n

That try came against the side his father Glenn Morrison represented during his playing days, too. Morrison, who is now 49, spent three seasons with the Bulls as a player, joining the club in 2007 before going on to make 56 appearances and scoring 23 tries.<\/p>\n

The Australian featured for Wakefield Trinity, too, before hanging up boots and settling in West Yorkshire. And, he\u2019ll be hoping his son can follow in his footsteps down under by working his way into the NRL picture in New South Wales.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the clash with Bradford on January 18, Morrison told the Huddersfield Giants\u2019 YouTube channel: \u201cIt\u2019s a special occasion to make my debut against my dad\u2019s old team and to the get the try as well, I\u2019m happy about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobbo [Luke Robinson] has been great really. I started training with the first team in pre-season at scholarship going into academy so I\u2019ve been with the first team for quite a while now getting to know the lads and Robbo\u2019s been great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huddersfield to Newcastle is a path that has been fairly well trodden in recent seasons with the likes of Dom Young and Will Pryce making that move. Of course, Young made his name as a player with the Knights and he returned to the club earlier this year after a spell with Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n

Will Pryce returned to the Super League in March, joining Hull FC on a three and a half year deal.<\/p>\n

Check out the latest episode of The Serious About Rugby League Show on our YouTube channel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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