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<\/p>\nTanginoa left Craven Park to join Warrington Wolves in the off-season<\/p>\n
Kelepi Tanginoa left Hull KR in the off-season<\/p>\n
Hull KR will be coming up against Kelepi Tanginoa on Sunday for the first time since he left the club during the off-season.<\/p>\n
Tanginoa played an important role during KR’s treble winning campaign, with the back-rower making 29 appearances last season and scoring six tries.<\/p>\n
However, with his contract up in 2026, he made the decision to move to Warrington Wolves in the off-season, in a switch that caught many off guard.<\/p>\n
The Australian has settled in well under the stewardship of Sam Burgess, playing that familiar role off the bench to great effect, and he managed to grab four tries in a single game back in round five as the Wolves hammered Castleford Tigers.<\/p>\n
A place at Wembley awaits for the winner of Sunday’s game at the Eco-Power Stadium and he certainly won’t lack motivation as he bids to bring his former club’s trophy-winning run to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n
KR, though, know all about the threat he carries and Willie Peters has now opened up on the circumstances that led to his exit.<\/p>\n
“It was tough, but it was driven from Kelepi,” Peters said. “The club weren’t in a position to extend him and he wanted to secure his future.<\/p>\n
“I’m a coach that, I look it, I talk about it with the player, talk about it with Paul Lakin and then we come to a decision of what’s best for both. There was one there that at his age, if he stayed here or if he didn’t get offered a contract, or that contract wasn’t there, then we’re not helping anyone.<\/p>\n
“It was a discussion initiated initially by Kelepi, but he’s found his feet there and we’re happy for him. He’s a great person, great family and it’s good to see him enjoying his footy.”<\/p>\n
On the prospect of coming up against him this weekend, Peters added: “Personally I’m glad I don’t have to face him, it’s not me.<\/p>\n
“Kelepi played an important part here, we value him and he’s great mate of ours. He’s gone to Warrington and found his feet.<\/p>\n
“Coming off the bench, I think he prefers that role and he does it really well. We know what we’re going to get from him but I’m just glad it’s them and not me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanginoa left Craven Park to join Warrington Wolves in the off-season Kelepi Tanginoa left Hull KR in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20372,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574290","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=574290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}