{"id":942064,"date":"2026-10-26T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942064\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:32:10","slug":"nrl-forward-unexpectedly-linked-to-super-league-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/942064\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL forward unexpectedly linked to Super League move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cronulla Sharks<\/a> front-rower Braden Uele<\/a> has been linked to a move to the Super League<\/a> after reports that he was set to replace Spencer Leniu<\/a> at the Sydney Roosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Braden’s brother, Caleb, has been playing in the Super League<\/a> for Wakefield Trinity<\/a> and was part of their premiership-winning side this season.<\/p>\n

He was considering New Zealand<\/a>, Samoa<\/a> or England<\/a> to potentially represent at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

However, he couldn’t play as he had been carrying a knee injury for some time.<\/p>\n

In late September, Braden’s brother, Caleb Hamlin-Uele, posted an AI-generated image of himself wearing a Wakefield shirt alongside his brother.<\/p>\n

Underneath the image, the caption read, “Brothers in Arms 2027.”<\/p>\n

Code Sports reported weeks before Caleb’s photo that his brother was leaving the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> to sign with the Sydney Roosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, reports indicated it was a one-year deal as the Roosters are losing key members of their premiership-winning side.<\/p>\n

Braden’s signing was set to help add experience to the group.<\/p>\n

It would see Braden return to the Roosters organisation after spending 2013 and 2014 in the club’s under-20s before joining the North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> under Paul Green<\/a>, his NYC coach.<\/p>\n

He returned in round 23 for the Sharks after being in and out of the lineup in the club’s first four matches to start the season.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old spent the majority of this season playing for the Sharks’ NSW Cup<\/a> side, the Newtown Jets, after being a consistent forward in the Sharks’ first-grade pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cronulla Sharks front-rower Braden Uele has been linked to a move to the Super League after reports that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-942064","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\/942064","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=942064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}