{"id":107816,"date":"2025-10-29T22:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107816\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:50:06","slug":"tyrone-thompson-code-swapping-former-hawkes-bay-magpie-returning-to-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/107816\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrone Thompson: Code-swapping former Hawke\u2019s Bay Magpie returning to rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">He made several appearances in the NRL this year, but played most of the season in the secondary-level NSW Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">Originally from Gisborne, the twins were 5 when the family moved to Hawke\u2019s Bay, where they later played union in the Napier Boys\u2019 High School 1st XV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">Super Rugby Pacific 2026 starts on February 13, but squads have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qtLpbIHvhN\" style=\"display:none\">It is understood that no arrangements have yet been made for Thompson to return to NPC rugby next year, for the Magpies or any other union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He made several appearances in the NRL this year, but played most of the season in the secondary-level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1561,77579,2740,1976,14731,77580,9612,111,139,69,13572,13382,38951,6327,6926,213,2737,313,54946,61,77578],"class_list":["post-107816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-bay","tag-codeswapping","tag-former","tag-hawkes","tag-league","tag-magpie","tag-magpies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pacific","tag-returning","tag-reversing","tag-rugby","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-star","tag-super","tag-thompson","tag-to","tag-tyrone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}