{"id":401888,"date":"2026-01-09T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:42:09","slug":"french-fullback-joins-newcastle-thunder-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401888\/","title":{"rendered":"French fullback joins Newcastle Thunder \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/french-fullback-joins-newcastle-thunder\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to French fullback joins Newcastle Thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3706-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEWCASTLE THUNDER have signed French fullback Maxime Rostang from Albi and forward Harvey Reynolds from York Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Both have enjoyed recent success, with Rostang a regular in Albi\u2019s 2024-25 Super XIII title-winning season and Reynolds contributing to York\u2019s Championship League Leaders\u2019 Shield success last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rostang, 20, scored a try in France\u2019s academy international win over England in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds, 21, played 23 times for York over the past two seasons and appeared twice on loan at Newcastle during the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder\u2019s tally of signings is up to 12, six of them coming directly from the Knights who are now close partners with the north-east side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWCASTLE THUNDER have signed French fullback Maxime Rostang from Albi and forward Harvey Reynolds from York Knights. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-401888","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\/401888","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=401888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}