{"id":357122,"date":"2025-12-19T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357122\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:06:09","slug":"exclusive-departed-wests-tigers-forward-joins-new-club-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357122\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Departed Wests Tigers forward joins new club – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Departed Wests Tigers<\/a> front-rower Peter Taateo<\/a> has agreed to join a new club that will allow him to continue his rugby league playing career heading into next season.<\/p>\n

Previously a member of the Canberra Raiders<\/a> roster, Taateo made the switch to the Wests Tigers<\/a> midway through the 2025 season and impressed club officials but never made it to first-grade – he played 11 NSW Cup<\/a> matches.<\/p>\n

Seen as an impact player like Royce Hunt<\/a>, sources revealed to\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0that he has now become the latest player to depart the Tigers and has decided to link up with the Newtown Jets for the 2026 NSW Cup<\/a> season as he looks to get his career back on track.<\/p>\n

A former Under-16s NSW Blues<\/a> representative, the young prop also spent time in the Parramatta Eels<\/a> and Penrith Panthers<\/a> system and is a name to watch in the coming seasons with the inclusion of the Perth Bears<\/a> and PNG Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The move to the Newtown Jets will see him join ex-NRL centre Morgan Harper<\/a> as one of the club’s new signings.<\/a><\/p>\n

A late addition to the Warriors roster for the 2025\u00a0NRL<\/a>\u00a0season, which bolstered their depth in the outside backs, Harper was not needed during this year’s campaign and instead only played in the\u00a0NSW Cup<\/a>\u00a0before his stint came to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n

He will enter the Jets with six tries, six try assists, 48 tackle busts, ten line-breaks, 283 tackles and 2585 total running metres (117 per match) in 22 reserve-grade appearances in 2025.<\/p>\n

Debuting in 2019, he also had stints with the\u00a0Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>\u00a0(2019-20),\u00a0Manly Sea Eagles<\/a>\u00a0(2020-23), and\u00a0Parramatta Eels<\/a>\u00a0(2024), in which he featured in 64 total appearances in a variety of different roles, including in the centres and the back-row.<\/p>\n

Outside of his matches in the\u00a0NRL<\/a>, Harper played for the Junior Kiwis in 2018, the NSW Residents team and had two games for the M\u0101ori All Stars in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departed Wests Tigers front-rower Peter Taateo has agreed to join a new club that will allow him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-357122","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\/357122","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=357122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}