{"id":610849,"date":"2026-09-25T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610849\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:40:10","slug":"all-blacks-ardie-savea-teases-new-super-rugby-team-in-cryptic-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610849\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks: Ardie Savea teases new Super Rugby team in cryptic social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Numerous All Blacks have also liked and commented on the video, as has Springboks captain Siya Kolisi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Savea signed a three-year deal with Moana from 2025 but took a sabbatical in Japan during the second year, playing just 12 games for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">He remains under contract with New Zealand Rugby for next year, but has been touted to leave after the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The Blues remain a logical choice, with senior loose forwards Hoskins Sotutu and Dalton Papali\u2019i departing the club, while Savea\u2019s former Hurricanes coach, Jason Holland, will take charge in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The 32-year-old is currently recovering from surgery on a dislocated shoulder with no date confirmed for him to return to rugby, although it\u2019s expected he will miss the upcoming Bledisloe Cup tests against the Wallabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">He was taken off just after the half-hour mark during the third test against the Springboks in Soweto after he was seen being cleared out of a ruck by Malcolm Marx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The 2027 Super Rugby Pacific season starts on  February 12, with the Crusaders playing the Reds in Christchurch, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby\/super-rugby\/christchurch-back-to-host-super-round-in-2027\/LTSXMQPH7RBXNEDB7HN3BCY3UE\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby\/super-rugby\/christchurch-back-to-host-super-round-in-2027\/LTSXMQPH7RBXNEDB7HN3BCY3UE\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Round will be in the same city, starting on April 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Numerous All Blacks have also liked and commented on the video, as has Springboks captain Siya Kolisi. Savea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,9344,16425,9082,8136,13381,38123,3273,29812,78,1073,117,111,139,69,28630,5415,3117,45788,6327,9083,1072,213,313,7187,73885,416,102],"class_list":["post-610849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all","tag-announcement","tag-appears","tag-ardie","tag-blacks","tag-captain","tag-cryptic","tag-future","tag-imminent","tag-in","tag-media","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-page","tag-playing","tag-post","tag-posting","tag-rugby","tag-savea","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-super","tag-team","tag-teases","tag-video","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610849","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=610849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}