{"id":594313,"date":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594313\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:51:08","slug":"xavier-roe-sale-sign-scrum-half-from-new-zealand-side-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594313\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Roe: Sale sign scrum-half from New Zealand side Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale Sharks have signed scrum-half Xavier Roe on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old joins from New Zealand side Chiefs, having spent five years there, scoring 40 points in 58 appearances for the Super Rugby club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will join up with Alex Sanderson&#8217;s squad in time for beginning of the 2026-27 Prem season in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roe, who is officially uncapped but featured for an All Blacks XV on a 2025 tour, said he wanted to &#8220;experience a new environment, new players, and another country&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks have signed scrum-half Xavier Roe on a two-year deal. The 27-year-old joins from New Zealand side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594313","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\/594313","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=594313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}