Watch every second of the 2026 Nations Championship live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nHooper has emerged as one of the world’s form back-rowers over the past 18 months, starring for the ACT Brumbies.<\/p>\n
From here, the Bathurst product was one of the stars of the British & Irish Lions tour, named Player of the Match in the third Test victory in Sydney.<\/p>\n
This success continued with the Chiefs in the Premiership, named in the Team of the Season after helping them to the Final alongside fellow Wallaby Len Ikitau.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m really happy to have my long-term future secured with a move back to Australia in the not-too-distant future,” Hooper said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thoroughly enjoying my time in Exeter and am focused on continuing to improve my game there before returning to Australia and linking up with Queensland.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the short-term, my priority is to continue working hard with the Wallabies where I\u2019m incredibly hungry to contribute on and off the field as we continue to build our game as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hooper is currently dealing with a shoulder issue, which has ruled him out of this week’s match against France in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
He joins a stacked Reds back-row, with Wallabies skipper Harry Wilson already signed until 2029, while Reds captain Fraser McReight remains one of the best in the world.<\/p>\n
“We’re delighted to welcome Tom to the Reds. While it will be a few years before we see him in a Reds jersey, he’s another world-class player we can build our squad around,” Reds General Manager, High Performance, Sam Cordingley said.<\/p>\n
“In planning for the future, we’re confident Tom’s decision to join the Reds will be a catalyst for retaining and recruiting players over the next few years.”<\/p>\n
\u201cTom\u2019s return to Australian Rugby is a real coup for all supporters of the game in this country,” RA Director of High Performance Peter Horne added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s someone who works incredibly hard on his craft and has already shown the impact he can have at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wallabies back-rower Tom Hooper has signed a unique agreement that will see the 25-year-old commit his long-term future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,12061,48013,2500],"class_list":["post-785542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-queensland-reds","tag-super-rugby-pacific","tag-wallabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785542","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=785542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}