{"id":432076,"date":"2026-01-23T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432076\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:24:08","slug":"newcastle-red-bulls-prop-pouri-rakete-stones-signs-from-hurricanes-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432076\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls: Prop Pouri Rakete-Stones signs from Hurricanes for 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Pouri Rakete-Stones on a two-year contract from Super Rugby side Hurricanes from the beginning of the 2026-27 Prem season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old prop has represented the Maori All Blacks and an All Blacks XV, but not the full New Zealand team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rakete-Stones, who can operate on both sides of the scrum, has also played more than 50 games for the Wellington-based Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Signing with Newcastle Red Bulls is an exciting chapter,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastleredbulls.com\/en\/articles\/pouri-rakete-stones-to-join-newcastle-red-bulls\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club&#8217;s website, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re building something great, and I can&#8217;t wait to add to it. I&#8217;m really looking forward to working hard with this group and making our fans proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls have signed Pouri Rakete-Stones on a two-year contract from Super Rugby side Hurricanes from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-432076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432076","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=432076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}