{"id":766838,"date":"2026-09-11T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766838\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T03:22:10","slug":"christian-tuipulotu-st-helens-sign-winger-from-2027-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/766838\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Tuipulotu: St Helens sign winger from 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Helens have signed winger Christian Tuipulotu from NRL side St George Illawarra Dragons on a three-year deal which will begin from the start of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old joins Saints after they missed out on making it into this year’s play-offs for the first time in the Super League era.<\/p>\n

Tuipulotu made his NRL debut for Sydney Roosters and also played for Manly Sea Eagles before moving to the Dragons in 2024.<\/p>\n

In total, he has scored 33 tries in 63 NRL appearances but has had a less prolific campaign this year for the Dragons as they finished bottom of the standings.<\/p>\n

Tuipulotu becomes incumbent head coach Kevin Walters’ second addition to Saints’ squad after it was announced centre Solomona Faataape<\/a> will arrive from Catalans Dragons.<\/p>\n

“I’m very excited,” Tuipulotu told Saints’ website., external<\/a> “I know a few of the boys already, and I know the club has got such a long and storied history.<\/p>\n

“I’m pumped to come and add to the team. It’s going to be a big change for my partner and me, but I’m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

“Kevin’s [Walters] played and coached at some of the best teams in the world. I’ve got no doubt he’s going to be great at St Helens. I’m excited to learn off him, pick his brains, and be part of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens have signed winger Christian Tuipulotu from NRL side St George Illawarra Dragons on a three-year deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-766838","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\/766838","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=766838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}