{"id":496163,"date":"2026-06-26T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/496163\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:00:08","slug":"all-blacks-one-test-loose-forward-cullen-grace-to-join-welsh-club-scarlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/496163\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks: One-test loose forward Cullen Grace to join Welsh club Scarlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The H\u0101wera-born forward represented New Zealand Secondary Schools, Canterbury Under-19, the New Zealand U20 side, and the M\u0101ori All Blacks, earning him All Blacks selection in 2020, playing his sole test against Australia in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Grace said he\u2019s looking forward to embracing a new challenge in the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cScarlets is a very proud rugby club with a great history and tradition and that was something that really appealed to me. It is a challenge I am really looking forward to and I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">He joins a growing list of All Blacks departing Aotearoa, including fellow Crusaders Sevu Reece, Braydon Ennor and Dallas McLeod, as well as Blues trio Stephen Perofeta, Dalton Papali\u2019i and Hoskins Sotutu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The H\u0101wera-born forward represented New Zealand Secondary Schools, Canterbury Under-19, the New Zealand U20 side, and the M\u0101ori&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,8136,18836,164,19134,5912,19755,114231,111,139,69,248279,59378,213,61,135157],"class_list":["post-496163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-club","tag-cullen","tag-forward","tag-grace","tag-join","tag-loose","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onetest","tag-scarlets","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496163","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=496163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}