{"id":64540,"date":"2025-10-08T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:45:08","slug":"josh-jacomb-highlanders-sign-taranaki-playmaker-for-super-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64540\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Jacomb : Highlanders sign Taranaki playmaker for Super Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Highlanders have bolstered their future first five-eighths stocks with the signing of Taranaki playmaker Josh Jacomb for two years beginning in 2027.<\/p>\n

\n Jacomb has played back up to Damian McKenzie at the Chiefs since his debut in 2024, but will take his talents south after one more season in
\n Hamilton.\n <\/p>\n

His opportunities for the Chiefs have been limited with just nine starting appearances over the last two years.<\/p>\n

Jacomb said he has learnt a lot playing under McKenzie.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking alongside someone like D-Mac, but I feel I\u2019m ready to take the next step in my career and hopefully play a more prominent role. I believe a move to the Highlanders is the best place for me to do that. I know that I will have to continue to work hard as they already have some good young talent down there, but I am genuinely excited by the prospect of playing for the Highlanders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"nzme 8 Oct, 2025 01:28 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18516,52364,52363,1888,23841,2082,3273,305,42,52362,52361,1433,43,33320,6327,7806,48613,643,313,16715,165,40,38,41,39,102,1530],"class_list":["post-64540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-18516","tag-beginning","tag-bolstered","tag-first","tag-fiveeighths","tag-for","tag-future","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-highlanders","tag-jacomb","tag-josh","tag-news","tag-playmaker","tag-rugby","tag-sign","tag-signing","tag-stocks","tag-super","tag-taranaki","tag-their","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64540","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=64540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}