{"id":33770,"date":"2025-07-31T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33770\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:08:08","slug":"raiders-prop-returns-to-newcastle-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33770\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders prop returns to Newcastle ahead of 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knights have officially announced<\/a> the signing of local junior Pasami Saulo, who returns to the Hunter on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n

Saulo, 26, first debuted for Newcastle in 2018, earning the distinction of becoming the 300th player to represent the Knights at NRL level.<\/p>\n

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A Maitland Pumpkin Pickers and Morpeth Bulls junior, Saulo progressed through the club’s pathways, winning a Harold Matthews Cup title in 2014, and Australian Schoolboys selection in 2016.<\/p>\n

After 27 appearances across five seasons with Newcastle, Saulo departed in 2022 to join the Canberra Raiders, where he’s played 31 matches over three campaigns.<\/p>\n

Newcastle head of recruitment\u00a0Peter O\u2019Sullivan praised Saulo’s size, athleticism and pride for the Knights jersey.<\/p>\n

“We are so excited to bring Pasami home to where his football career started,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Pasami is everything we are looking for to bolster our squad, a big athletic middle forward with a strong presence and powerful ball carry.<\/p>\n

“He is Newcastle through and through, we can\u2019t wait to see him back in the Knights red and blue in 2026.”<\/p>\n

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Saulo, of Samoan and\u00a0M\u0101ori heritage, will join a middle rotation which includes\u00a0Jacob Saifiti,\u00a0Mat Croker and Brodie Jones when he reunites with the red and blue in 2026.<\/p>\n

The move marks a full-circle moment for the Belmont-born forward, who began his rugby league journey in the Hunter before making his NRL dream a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knights have officially announced the signing of local junior Pasami Saulo, who returns to the Hunter on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-33770","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\/33770","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=33770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}