{"id":834408,"date":"2026-07-30T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:59:12","slug":"nrlw-news-2026-teagan-levi-code-switch-rugby-sevens-gold-coast-titans-andrew-johns-exclusive-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834408\/","title":{"rendered":"NRLW news 2026: Teagan Levi code switch, rugby sevens; Gold Coast Titans; Andrew Johns exclusive comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Johns<\/a> wants NRLW<\/a> clubs to target the rugby sevens program as cross-code star Teagan Levi takes the competition by storm. <\/p>\n

Levi signed with the Gold Coast Titans for the 2026 season<\/a> after opting to take a sabbatical option in her Rugby Australia contract and has scored four tries in four games. <\/p>\n

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Maddison Levi hugs her sister Teagan after the latter\u2019s debut for the Titans.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

From those four matches, the Titans have only lost one which was against premiership powerhouse, the Roosters.<\/p>\n

Levi started at five-eighth in the match and scored<\/a>. She crossed for a double in the Titans\u2019 recent match against North Queensland which was a 34-6 win. <\/p>\n

The eighth Immortal has been seriously impressed with the start to her NRLW career.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow good is she?\u201d Johns said on Nine\u2019s Immortal Behaviour<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got to raid rugby sevens. I\u2019ve seen the sevens train, and there\u2019s hardly any skills. They\u2019re just doing repeat speeds, 40s, 50s, 60s, continual running. She\u2019s brought over that speed endurance. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a superstar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johns wasn\u2019t limiting that raid to Australia either. <\/p>\n

\u201cGet overseas. Get some English, Kiwis, South Africans,\u201d he said before host Ruan Sims suggested the USA players too. <\/p>\n

NRLW isn\u2019t the only code Levi has flirted with having been picked in the 2021 AFLW draft for the Gold Coast Suns. She opted to take up a deal with Rugby Australia instead. <\/p>\n

Her sister Maddison<\/a> had played with the Suns in 2021. She had also been on the radar of NRLW clubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both Levi sisters are signed with RA until the end of 2028 which will take them to the Los Angeles Olympics. <\/p>\n

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Stacey Waaka.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

There are currently multiple rugby sevens players running around in the NRLW which includes New Zealand\u2019s dual Olympic gold medalist Stacey Waaka who is at the Warriors. <\/p>\n

Waaka previously played for the Broncos in 2024. <\/p>\n

Australian sevens players Madison Ashby, Sariah Paki and Damita Betham are all contracted to NRLW clubs too. <\/p>\n

Waaka\u2019s Warriors will come up against Levi\u2019s Titans this Sunday for the NRLW\u2019s Magic Round in Wagga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Johns wants NRLW clubs to target the rugby sevens program as cross-code star Teagan Levi takes the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-834408","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\/834408","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=834408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}