{"id":427292,"date":"2026-01-21T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427292\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:58:12","slug":"tevita-pangai-junior-set-for-stunning-super-league-return-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427292\/","title":{"rendered":"Tevita Pangai Junior set for stunning Super League return \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/tevita-pangai-junior-set-for-stunning-super-league-return\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Tevita Pangai Junior set for stunning Super League return\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHO1622-e1752829908165-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TEVITA PANGAI JUNIOR is reportedly set for a stunning return to Super League, barely a month after quitting the 13-man code for rugby union.<\/p>\n<p>French publication,\u00a0L\u2019Independant, has reported that the 29-year-old is set to sign for either Hull FC or Hull KR ahead of the 2026 Super League campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The former Tongan league international initially agreed a switch from Catalans Dragons to Warrington Wolves for next season in July, but told Warrington last month he would not be joining as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Instead Pangai Junior temporarily linked up with SC Leucate, who play in the French sixth tier of the 15-a-side code and are based around 20 miles north of Perpignan.<\/p>\n<p>A return to Super League, however, is now on the cards in a surprising twist of fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEVITA PANGAI JUNIOR is reportedly set for a stunning return to Super League, barely a month after quitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-427292","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\/427292","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=427292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}