{"id":393524,"date":"2026-01-05T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:04:12","slug":"newcastle-red-bulls-exeter-forward-rusi-tuima-to-join-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393524\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls: Exeter forward Rusi Tuima to join next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Exeter Chiefs forward Rusi Tuima on a two-year contract to join them ahead of next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuima has scored 20 tries in 74 games for Exeter after coming through the Chiefs&#8217; academy, making his debut in 2019 and he has featured in seven Prem matches this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 6ft 5in Fiji-born player, who can play as a second rower or in the back row, has represented England at under-18 and under-20 level and the A team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rusi has a well-deserved reputation around the Prem as somebody who loves the physical aspects of the game,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastleredbulls.com\/en\/articles\/rusi-tuima-to-join-newcastle-red-bulls\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> Newcastle sporting general manager Neil McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has come through the national pathway and earned his England A cap last season, and it&#8217;s great that he sees Newcastle as a stage where he can really push on and achieve his personal ambitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Exeter Chiefs forward Rusi Tuima on a two-year contract to join them ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-393524","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\/393524","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=393524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}