{"id":604742,"date":"2026-05-26T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:36:11","slug":"st-helens-prop-daniel-suluka-fifita-joins-from-nrl-side-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604742\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens: Prop Daniel Suluka-Fifita joins from NRL side Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens have signed prop forward Daniel Suluka-Fifita on a two-and-a-half-year deal from NRL side Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suleka-Fifita has signed immediately and will link up with Paul Rowley&#8217;s squad in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old has played 46 games in Australia&#8217;s premier competition since his debut in 2020, including 11 for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With captain and fellow prop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cj4pevgvpj1o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matty Lees<\/a> out for the rest of the season, Suluka-Fifita will help to plug that gap in the front row. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After a difficult run with injuries has stretched the squad this season, it&#8217;s great to bring in a player of Daniel&#8217;s quality and character,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintsrlfc.com\/2026\/05\/26\/daniel-suluka-fifita-joins-saints\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> head coach Rowley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens slipped from first to third in Super League over the weekend following their defeat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/crmpdpmg38wo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at Castleford Tigers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens have signed prop forward Daniel Suluka-Fifita on a two-and-a-half-year deal from NRL side Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Suleka-Fifita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604742","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\/604742","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=604742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}