{"id":49595,"date":"2025-08-07T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49595\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T05:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T05:08:08","slug":"johnston-free-to-talk-early-with-png-ahead-of-nrl-entry-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49595\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston free to talk early with PNG ahead of NRL entry | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">The door is open for Alex Johnston to become Papua New Guinea&#8217;s first NRL signing, with a clause in his contract allowing him to begin negotiations early with the new franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The dashing winger signed a two-year extension with South Sydney last month, keeping him at the Rabbitohs until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, that would prohibit Johnston from negotiating with any franchise until November 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>But AAP has been told a clause in Johnston&#8217;s contract will allow him to begin talks with the PNG side early, ahead of their 2028 entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The door is open for Alex Johnston to become Papua New Guinea&#8217;s first NRL signing, with a clause&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-49595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595","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=49595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}