Kai Pearce-Paul is about to face his old club Newcastle for the first time but believes Knights fans might see a new-and-improved footballer under the tutelage of Benji Marshall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wests Tigers fans are already seeing it and loving it, as the England international who played all three Ashes Tests last year shapes to be one of the best 2026 recruits across the NRL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say Pearce-Paul didn\u2019t enjoy his two years in the Hunter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a good game. It\u2019ll be a weird one for me being the first time playing against an old club \u2013 so a bit of weird sensation for me playing against some mates,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve found some real good form and have obviously made a lot of changes in the style of play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI had some real good times there. When we were playing well, we played really well.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI really enjoyed my time there but I fell this year under Benji I\u2019ve been able to express myself more with my personal tools, like the offload and stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just two different systems and obviously I feel like being in this system suits me more.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one of the major moving points for me after having a few conversations with Benji \u2013 what he wanted out of me for the team and what he wanted me to do on the field. It was more of how I wanted to play.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pearce-Paul has scored three tries in four games but it\u2019s his second-phase football that is eye-catching.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Wests Tigers get the win in Golden Point!<\/p>\n
Against the Eels in the 22-20 win he had two line break assists, two try assists, five tackle breaks and the most offloads with prop Terrell May (four each).\u00a0<\/p>\n
His work on the right edge combined with Samuela Finau on the left \u2013 both players spent 85 minutes on the field on Monday \u2013 alongside Alex Twal at lock, is a potent back row.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just enjoying the boys around me… Jahream (Bula) is a great ball-player, Adam Doueihi as well. It\u2019s easy for me to get those offloads and play to my strengths,\u201d Pearce-Paul said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just helps when you have someone running that line and looking for that opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving the players we have around me ad Benji just wants everyone to play to their strengths.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously I like that ball a bit earlier, get that one-on-one and get the offload.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just the Benji way. He wants us to express ourselves and that\u2019s what he\u2019s allowing us to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kai Pearce-Paul is about to face his old club Newcastle for the first time but believes Knights fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-371322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371322","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=371322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}