{"id":565786,"date":"2026-03-26T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:46:09","slug":"prem-rugby-team-news-christian-wade-returns-for-newcastle-red-bulls-v-exeter-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565786\/","title":{"rendered":"Prem Rugby team news: Christian Wade returns for Newcastle Red Bulls v Exeter Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Wade returns to the Newcastle Red Bulls for the visit of play-off chasing Exeter Chiefs to Kingston Park.<\/p>\n

Wade, who recently signed a one-year contract extension<\/a> with Red Bulls will be looking for his first Prem try of the season and the 94th of his career.<\/p>\n

Second row Oscar Usher and centre Rhys Beeckmans also come into the team, while loan arrival Ben Healy<\/a> is named as a replacement.<\/p>\n

Exeter centre Nick Lilley is included for his first game since October in a side that includes Newcastle-bound duo Rusi Tuima and Will Rigg.<\/p>\n

Second-row Dafydd Jenkins gets the weekend off after playing all but four minutes for Wales across the Six Nations. <\/p>\n

Newcastle: E Obatoyinbo; Wade, Hearle, Beeckmans, H Obatoyinbo; Connon, Benitez Cruz; Brocklebank, McGuigan (c), Palframan, Usher, Scott, Parsons, Christie, Leatherbarrow. <\/p>\n

Replacements: Fletcher, Hancock, McCallum, Clarke, Gordon, Elliott, Healy, Spencer. <\/p>\n

Exeter Chiefs: Woodburn; Brown-Bampoe, Lilley, Rigg, Ridl; Skinner, Varney; Sio, Yeandle (c), Roots, Tuima, Zambonin, Hooper, Vintcent, Fisilau.<\/p>\n

Replacements: Heaven, Burger, Tchumbadze, Pearson, Worley-Brady, Cairns, Haydon-Wood, John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Wade returns to the Newcastle Red Bulls for the visit of play-off chasing Exeter Chiefs to Kingston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-565786","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\/565786","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=565786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}