One of the Championship\u2019s top players is set to make the move to Super League in 2027, with Oldham\u2019s Cole Geyer joining York Knights system.<\/p>\n
Australian ace Geyer has made a major impression since arriving at Oldham from Queensland Cup outfit Burleigh Bears in the off-season, scoring four tries in 11 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n
Numerous Super League clubs keeping tabs on his performances in recent weeks, but Love Rugby League understands Geyer has now signed a contract that will see him head to York as part of their arrangement with Newcastle Thunder.<\/p>\n
The Knights and Championship outfit Thunder launched a High Performance & Pathways Partnership last year that has seen the clubs work closer in terms of playing rosters and other off-field structures.<\/p>\n
Geyer, the son of former NRL champion Matt, made 57 in the Q Cup between 2023 and 2025, first winning the competition with Brisbane Tigers before succeeding again with Burleigh Bears last year.<\/p>\n
He was also on the scoresheet in the State Championship final Down Under last autumn, but that ended in a 50-20 defeat to New Zealand Warriors\u2019 reserves, who had won the New South Wales Cup.<\/p>\n
Born in Fitzroy, Geyer\u2019s contract for 2027 has been sealed,\u00a0though it\u2019s unclear at present whether the plan is for him to be with York or Newcastle at this point.<\/p>\n
However, York\u2019s two contracted hookers in the shape of Paul McShane and Taylor Pemberton are both off-contract at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Fellow hooker Denive Balmforth meanwhile is on a season-long loan from Hull FC, meaning there is potential for change in the Knights\u2019 hooking department going into next season.<\/p>\n
Overseas ace Sam Cook was announced as a Newcastle signing before the season, but has featured for the Knights in Super League this year, making an impressive debut in last month\u2019s narrow 23-22 defeat at Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Championship\u2019s top players is set to make the move to Super League in 2027, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528791","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\/528791","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=528791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}