{"id":950785,"date":"2026-11-03T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950785\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:08:13","slug":"dolphins-set-to-extend-promising-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950785\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins set to extend promising forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dolphins<\/a> are set to retain promising forward Sebastian Su’a<\/a> on a multi-year deal until the end of the decade.<\/p>\n

Su’a joined the Dolphins<\/a> during the 2025 season after being released by the Newcastle Knights<\/a> in a player swap for Mason Teague<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dolphins<\/a> assistant Rory Kostjasyn<\/a> played a significant role in signing Su’a from Newcastle, where he previously coached the New Zealand<\/a> rugby union prospect.<\/p>\n

The 198-centimetre forward played one game for the Dolphins<\/a> this season against the Knights, where he played 18 minutes in a one-point loss to his former side.<\/p>\n

Per ESPN, the 23-year-old is set to extend on a two-year deal, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2029 season.<\/p>\n

Rivals had the 23-year-old circled as a potential target when the November 1 contract window opened.<\/p>\n

This season in the Queensland Cup for the Redcliffe Dolphins<\/a>, Su’a played 15 games and made 27 tackle breaks, 17 offloads, ran 114.4 metres per game, had 50.4 post-contact metres per game and made 22 tackles per game at 94.3% efficiency.<\/p>\n

In the QLD Cup<\/a>, the Dolphins<\/a> finished second on the ladder, where Su’a was part of the premiership-winning side and the State Championship 68-14 defeat over the Penrith Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NRL<\/a> side has extended Selwyn Cobbo<\/a> until the end of 2031, Kulikefu Finefeuiaki<\/a> and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow<\/a> until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n

Herbie Farnworth<\/a> is still a major priority for the club as they look to keep him beyond his current contract’s expiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins are set to retain promising forward Sebastian Su’a on a multi-year deal until the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-950785","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\/950785","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=950785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}