{"id":168983,"date":"2025-09-29T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:31:07","slug":"super-league-castleford-tigers-sign-renouf-atoni-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168983\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League: Castleford Tigers sign Renouf Atoni on two year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castleford Tigers have signed Kiwi forward Renouf Atoni on a two-year deal from Wakefield ahead of the 2026 Super League season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loose forward spent three seasons with Trinity in both Super League and the Championship but has a wealth of experience in the NRL in Australia and the NSW Cup for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My agent and I reached out to Chris [Chester] and he seemed pretty keen. So we had a conversation and I&#8217;m pretty excited with the vision he has for the club, and I jumped at the chance to come over,&#8221; Atoni <a href=\"https:\/\/castlefordtigers.com\/article\/63\/atoni-is-a-castleford-tiger\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really keen to get over and rip in. I know for a fact how passionate the fans are about the rebuild of the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of rugby Chester added: &#8220;Renouf has been a stand-out performer for Wakefield and he will add size and power to our existing forward pack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers have signed Kiwi forward Renouf Atoni on a two-year deal from Wakefield ahead of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}