Newcastle Red Bulls will add forward Max Hicks to their squad for next season after he agreed a move from French Top 14 side Perpignan.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old lock will sign a two-year contract at the end of the current campaign.<\/p>\n
Hicks began his career in New Zealand’s National Provincial Competition with Tasman before spending two years in Super Rugby with the Highlanders.<\/p>\n
Capped by the Maori All Blacks, he is in his second season with Perpignan who are currently second from bottom in the French top flight.<\/p>\n
“Max is very well thought of at Perpignan and brings a fabulous skillset,” Newcastle’s sporting general manager Neil McIlroy told the club’s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n “He can operate in a number of roles across the back five of the forward pack, and he has been playing to a high level for a number of years now.”<\/p>\n The addition of Hicks takes Newcastle’s total of new signings for next season to 12 after the capture of Exeter Chiefs centre Will Rigg was announced on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n Other signings for the Red Bulls include Fiji winger Joji Nasova,<\/a> Gloucester lock Cam Jordan<\/a> and Sale Sharks scrum-half Raffi Quirke.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Red Bulls will add forward Max Hicks to their squad for next season after he agreed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-443199","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\/443199","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=443199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}