{"id":364041,"date":"2026-01-11T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364041\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T07:14:15","slug":"will-roberts-nikau-williams-super-league-newcomers-york-knights-sign-pair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364041\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Roberts &#038; Nikau Williams: Super League newcomers York Knights sign pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Super League newcomers York Knights have signed half-back Will Roberts and utility back Nikau Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roberts, 20, was released by St Helens at the end of last season after having had loan spells with Swinton, Rochdale and Widnes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealander Williams, 26, spent the 2024 campaign with the Knights and scored 10 tries in 26 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Knights, who open their inaugural Super League campaign against reigning champions Hull KR on Thursday, 12 February, have not confirmed the length of contract either player has signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super League newcomers York Knights have signed half-back Will Roberts and utility back Nikau Williams. Roberts, 20, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-364041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364041","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=364041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}