Peita had a year in Major League Rugby with New England Free Jacks in 2022 and this season was rewarded for his form in New Zealand’s National Provincial Championship with a call-up to the Blues squad.<\/p>\n
“Terrell has aspirations to keep improving and is a good fit for what we need. He will whack guys, is a physical player and his actions will do the talking,” said Tiatia.<\/p>\n
“In terms of character, he ticks a lot of boxes and is diligent around his work. He is going to be a great addition to the group.”<\/p>\n
Peita is Dragons’ second confirmed signing for next season with Tonga wing Anzelo Tuitavuki joining from Colomiers in France’s second tier.<\/p>\n
The Rodney Parade club are looking to bring in a handful of new recruits after securing new contracts with Rio Dyer, Brodie Coghlan, Chris Coleman, Che Hope and Angus O’Brien.<\/p>\n
“We are excited about the cohension of players we are retaining and how we can keep improving them,” said Tiatia.<\/p>\n
Dragons will aim to end a four-year winless streak on their travels in the United Rugby Championship at Zebre on Friday (19:45 BST) before taking on Montpellier in the semi-finals of the Challenge Cup on Sunday, 3 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peita had a year in Major League Rugby with New England Free Jacks in 2022 and this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-546191","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\/546191","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=546191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}