{"id":376193,"date":"2025-12-28T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:27:20","slug":"young-knight-granted-training-exemption-by-nrl-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376193\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Knight granted training exemption by NRL – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Newcastle Knights<\/a> are understood to have won an exemption for youngster Kingston Seve to begin training with the NRL<\/a> squad, despite being 17 years of age.<\/p>\n

One of the game’s brightest young talents, Seve, who predominantly plays his footy at centre, was a Dolphins<\/a> junior before exiting the Redcliffe system to join the Knights.<\/p>\n

Under NRL<\/a> rules, players who have not yet turned 18 are unable to play first-grade or train, while players must be 17 on November 1 in the year they are signed to train.<\/p>\n

Seve didn’t turn 17 until November 29.<\/p>\n

It’s understood the dispensation will see him begin training in January with the Knights’ NRL<\/a> side.<\/p>\n

Wide World of Sports<\/a>‘ The Mole is reporting, however, that the club and youngster have been granted just that, with Justin Holbrook<\/a> telling the publication that it would fast-track his development.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great boost for the young guy and will help fast-track his professional development,” Holbrook said.<\/p>\n

“You only worry about players his age if they are not physically ready, and he is certainly that.<\/p>\n

“He is big and strong and keen to learn, so he will be joining the NRL<\/a> squad when we resume training in January.”<\/p>\n

Seve, who played for under-17 Queensland City last year, has also played rugby union growing up, but after an impressive run through the 2025 Cyril Connell Cup<\/a> competition in Queensland, he caught the eye of the Knights and made the switch in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Hunter Sports High student is understood not be in line for a first-grade debut in 2026, meaning he will not need further permission to play before his 18th birthday.<\/p>\n

“He will probably start next year in the SG Ball and then play some NSW Cup<\/a> against grown men,” Holbrook said.<\/p>\n

“We will most likely wait until 2027 to blood him in the NRL<\/a> and see how he goes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Newcastle Knights are understood to have won an exemption for youngster Kingston Seve to begin training with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-376193","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\/376193","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=376193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}