{"id":363302,"date":"2025-12-21T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363302\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:23:08","slug":"nrl-club-enters-advanced-talks-with-off-contract-shark-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363302\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL club enters “advanced talks” with off-contract Shark – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monitored by at least six teams, an NRL<\/a> side has reportedly stepped up talks to secure off-contract lock forward Jesse Colquhoun<\/a> from the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> as they look to win the race for his services.<\/p>\n

Regarded as one of the most underrated forwards in rugby league, the 24-year-old has only featured in fewer than 30 matches, but has shown during these appearances that he has all the makings to one day be a star of the NRL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although he has struggled with several injury issues over the past few years – in particular, to do with his knees – The Daily Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0reports that he has had “advanced talks” with the NRL’s newest expansion club as they continue to look and build their roster.<\/p>\n

The first team to show an interest in him, the Perth Bears<\/a>, remain in the hot seat to land Colquhoun, but\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0understands that the Newcastle Knights also believe that they are one of the frontrunners<\/a> to gain his signature.<\/p>\n

“To go from missing the start of the year with an ACL and then to work my way back in, it’s pretty surreal,”\u00a0Colquhoun told\u00a0Zero Tackle\u00a0in September.<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s always tough. You always have those personal battles behind closed doors, but we are such a strong club here and have such strong connections, which makes it easy to get through, especially those tough times.<\/p>\n

“Everyone’s here to pick you up and keep you going.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure with a lot of the boys, they wouldn’t be here without their family, and I’m the exact same. They drive me to training, pick me up when I can’t drive and do everything for me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monitored by at least six teams, an NRL side has reportedly stepped up talks to secure off-contract lock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-363302","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\/363302","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=363302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}