{"id":498368,"date":"2026-02-23T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498368\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:12:08","slug":"davvy-moales-melbourne-sabbatical-and-the-druas-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498368\/","title":{"rendered":"Davvy Moale&#8217;s Melbourne sabbatical and the Drua&#8217;s concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cook Islands Test forward Davvy Moale finds himself in the early stages of a one-year sabbatical at the Melbourne Storm, having ended his time at Souths and signed on with the Sea Eagles from 2027 for three seasons. Ahead of the NRL season&#8217;s opening weekend, the 22-year-old details his new life away from the Sydney spotlight and under the tutelage of master-coach Craig Bellamy. Plus, Round 2 in the Super Rugby Pacific sees two Aussie teams emerge as genuine forces for 2026, while the Fijian Drua remain winless. How concerned should we be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cook Islands Test forward Davvy Moale finds himself in the early stages of a one-year sabbatical at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-498368","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\/498368","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=498368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}