{"id":367233,"date":"2025-12-23T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:49:07","slug":"hoskins-sotutu-newcastle-red-bulls-sign-new-zealand-international-number-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367233\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoskins Sotutu: Newcastle Red Bulls sign New Zealand international number eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Blues number eight Hoskins Sotutu on a three-year deal for next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old has been capped 14 times by New Zealand but could switch his national allegiance to England, who he qualifies for through his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle rebranded from Falcons to Red Bulls in the off-season after a takeover but have lost all seven of their Prem games so far this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a huge signing which brings major firepower into the club, and sends a message around the league,&#8221; sporting general manager Neil McIlroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastleredbulls.com\/en\/articles\/hoskins-sotutu-to-join-newcastle-red-bulls\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hoskins is a player who was very much in demand from other teams, but he has seen what is being planned at Newcastle Red Bulls and wants to be part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Blues number eight Hoskins Sotutu on a three-year deal for next season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-367233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367233","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=367233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}