{"id":441480,"date":"2026-01-27T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:03:08","slug":"crusaders-midfielder-off-to-france-after-super-rugby-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441480\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders midfielder off to France after Super Rugby season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crusaders midfielder Braydon Ennor will move to France at the end of the Super Rugby Pacific season.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-test All Black has signed with French side Perpignan, where he will link up with former Crusaders team-mate Sevu Reece.<\/p>\n<p>Ennor said the decision came with a lot of emotions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love this place and the people here, but I&#8217;m really excited for what&#8217;s next. I&#8217;ve done so much growing in this place, and I owe so much to the red and black jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll always call this place home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ennor joined the Crusaders Academy in 2015 after moving from Auckland on a scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived in Christchurch as an 18-year-old, and spent the next decade establishing himself as one of the club&#8217;s most reliable midfielders.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he made his Crusaders debut and just one year later he would earn All Black selection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be able to call this a job and turning up to Rugby Park every week with my mates to go to work, it&#8217;s the best thing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a chapter I&#8217;ll treasure for the rest of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crusaders midfielder Braydon Ennor will move to France at the end of the Super Rugby Pacific season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-441480","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\/441480","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=441480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}