{"id":330371,"date":"2025-12-22T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:39:10","slug":"hull-fc-man-discusses-new-role-for-2026-as-switch-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330371\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull FC man discusses new role for 2026 as switch confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hull FC star Cade Cust is raring to go for 2026 with the Australian speaking about his new position and where the club are at in pre-season.<\/p>\n

Cust arrived ahead of the 2025 season<\/a> as one of a host of new signings, including Aidan Sezer, with whom he formed a strong halves partnership for much of the year.<\/p>\n

The Black and Whites had signed Jordan Abdull to play six with Cust recruited as a hooker or utility, a role that he still did play at times, but Abdull\u2019s release saw the former Wigan man spend much of his time in the halves.<\/p>\n

With Jake Arthur signed from the NRL ahead of the 2026 season<\/a>, it was expected that Cust would revert to his hooker role alongside Amir Bourouh, and a post on social from Hull FC has confirmed that to be the plan.<\/p>\n

Their squad numbers<\/a> had previously suggested that with Cust handed the number 14 shirt, however, this recent post has locked it in.<\/p>\n

Hull FC star locks in expected role for 2026<\/p>\n

Taking to Instagram, the Black and Whites shared some quotes from Cust, captioned: \u201cA live wire out of nine\u201d, confirming Cust\u2019s role once again and it\u2019s one he is very familiar with.<\/p>\n

Despite signing with Wigan to play six, Cust has transitioned into a nine during his time in England and looking ahead to 2026, he explained:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve played plenty of nine throughout my career so it\u2019s not a position that I\u2019m unfamiliar with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to interchanging in that role with Amir (Bourouh) and playing off the back of our big forward pack.\u201d<\/p>\n

That forward pack includes new signings Harvie Hill, Sam Lisone, Joe Batchelor and James Bell, whilst Ligi Sao is also back from injury.<\/p>\n

Such recruits have seen some talk of Hull FC as a dark horse for 2026 and Cust offered an update on pre-season so far, with the Black and Whites set to ramp things up in the New Year.<\/p>\n

He expalined: \u201cIt should be a great year, we\u2019ve started well in pre-season. The balance between having some fun and getting our work done has been spot on.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we\u2019ve got one big push in the New Year to get ourselves ready for the warm-up matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the latest episode of The Serious About Rugby League Show on our YouTube channel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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