{"id":525060,"date":"2026-07-14T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525060\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:31:17","slug":"raiders-winger-offered-up-in-likely-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525060\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders winger offered up in likely exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canberra Raiders<\/a> outside back Michael Asomua<\/a> has been offered to English Super League<\/a> clubs as the hunt goes on for a new home.<\/p>\n

Rated highluy for his powerful running game, Asomua has made one NRL<\/a> appearance during his time with the Raiders, but has otherwise been a NSW Cup<\/a> regular.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, who was born in New Zealand<\/a>, stands at just 175 centimetres and weighs in at 94 kilograms, but was in the top three of the NSW Cup<\/a> for running metres last year during what was a strong season.<\/p>\n

Growing up in the Riverina, he moved to Canberra as a high school student, graduating through the junior ranks at the Raiders where he played SG Ball, Jersey Flegg and NSW Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A highly-rated winger, he also played for the Australian Schoolboys and NSW under-19 squad as part of his development, but has failed to see that materialise into an NRL<\/a> career.<\/p>\n

Stuck behind a host of good options in Canberra, he has now decided it’s time to move on with his current contract due to expire at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

It’s understood some NRL<\/a> clubs have asked about him, but as yet, nothing has been made official, and now Love Rugby League are reporting that he – through his management – has offered his services to clubs in the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

The publication reports that no English clubs are yet interested in Asomua, but it would be a surprise if he doesn’t manage to pick up a contract somewhere in either hemisphere given his running game, although he has struggled to find the tryline on a consistent basis, managing just 26 tries in his 88 games at NSW Cup<\/a> level where he debuted in 2021.<\/p>\n

As it stands, the Raiders have the likes of Savelio Tamalae, Xavier Savage<\/a>, Jed Stuart<\/a> (who is set to officially re-sign in the coming days) and Sione Fainu<\/a> on their book for 2027, leaving little hope of Asomua bridging the first-grade side – particularly given the number of centres they have at the club, and the face Sebastian Kris<\/a> has been used on the wing at times recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canberra Raiders outside back Michael Asomua has been offered to English Super League clubs as the hunt goes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-525060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525060","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=525060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}