{"id":944402,"date":"2026-10-28T21:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944402\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:36:12","slug":"nrl-news-2026-hudson-young-contract-canberra-raiders-joseph-tapine-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944402\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL news 2026: Hudson Young contract, Canberra Raiders; Joseph Tapine comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canberra<\/a> captain Joseph Tapine admits the Raiders face a \u201chuge challenge\u201d to retain Hudson Young<\/a> after the club pulled its offer for the second-rower<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Young has been part of a tug-of-war between the Raiders and PNG<\/a> and earlier this week Canberra announced its $4.4 million four-year deal is no longer on the table.<\/p>\n

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Joseph Tapine, Hudson Young and Matt Timoko.\u00a0NRL Imagery<\/p>\n

The Raiders said in the statement that the club needed an answer before the end of October so they could plan for the future. <\/p>\n

Young\u2019s market value has been a major talking point after PNG was not allowed to offer a deal of $900,000-a-season. The smaller offer was set to be on the table because of tax-free incentives with the incoming 20th team. <\/p>\n

Tapine told 2GB\u2019s Sports Today he was hopeful Young could stay despite the offer being pulled.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, Hudson\u2019s been a big part of our club. It\u2019s a huge challenge with the new team in PNG and all the tax-free stuff, it\u2019s a big challenge for any club at the moment but Hudson\u2019s been in our plans moving forward for while,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s his decision at the end of the day, and we\u2019ve got to respect what he does, but hopefully he stays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tapine confirmed he\u2019s been staying in contact with the star back-rower as negotiations continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been talking to him over the past couple of months of the process and seeing where he\u2019s at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in the meantime (I have) given him space as well, it\u2019s a huge decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe offers are life-changing money and at the end of the day, you\u2019ve got to look after yourself and your family first so I respect that part.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been talking to him and urging him to stay at the club because he\u2019s one hell of a player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young missed the end of the 2026 season, as well as Australia\u2019s World Cup campaign, after suffering an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canberra captain Joseph Tapine admits the Raiders face a \u201chuge challenge\u201d to retain Hudson Young after the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-944402","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\/944402","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=944402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}