{"id":670308,"date":"2026-05-14T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:49:09","slug":"theo-mcfarland-samoan-international-to-leave-saracens-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670308\/","title":{"rendered":"Theo McFarland: Samoan international to leave Saracens at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samoan forward Theo McFarland will leave Saracens at the end of the season to join a team in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old has made 86 appearances for the London club since signing in 2021 and was part of the side that won the Prem title in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Theo joined the club five years ago and has developed tremendously during his time here,&#8221; said Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through his dedication, professionalism and hard work both on and off the pitch, he has grown into an outstanding rugby player and athlete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McFarland, who has 24 caps for Samoa and can play in either the back row or second row, has played 15 games this campaign, scoring three tries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he has &#8220;loved&#8221; his time at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will continue to give everything I have in these final few games and help finish the season strongly,&#8221; McFarland said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samoan forward Theo McFarland will leave Saracens at the end of the season to join a team in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-670308","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\/670308","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=670308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}