{"id":603114,"date":"2026-04-13T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:14:14","slug":"newcastle-knights-sign-marata-niukore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603114\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Knights Sign Marata Niukore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nib Newcastle Knights have confirmed powerhouse forward Marata Niukore will join the club next season, signing a three-year National Rugby League contract until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Niukore, 29, has played over 150 NRL games and 10 International caps, including every game of the 2025 NRL season, adding wonderful experience, physicality and reliability to the Knights forward pack.<\/p>\n<p>nib Newcastle Knights Head of Recruitment Peter O\u2019Sullivan said Niukore is a perfect fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are super excited Marata and his family have chosen to come to the Knights in 2027,&#8221; said O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a big athletic body, who can play in the middle or on the edge, with the same level of execution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarata is one of the top edge defenders in the game and having played a lot of NRL in the centres, he adds genuine skill and versatility to our future stocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEqually importantly, we know he is a great person, who cares about the Club, the community and the teammates he represents, already committing to leaving the jersey in a better position than how he receives it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nib Newcastle Knights have confirmed powerhouse forward Marata Niukore will join the club next season, signing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-603114","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\/603114","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=603114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}