{"id":5320,"date":"2026-01-07T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:34:51","slug":"rusi-tuima-exeter-made-offer-to-keep-newcastle-bound-lock-at-sandy-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5320","title":{"rendered":"Rusi Tuima: Exeter made offer to keep Newcastle-bound lock at Sandy Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuima is the second Exeter player to agree a summer move to Kingston Park in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full-back Josh Hodge, who like Tuima has also had call-ups to England&#8217;s &#8216;A&#8217; side in recent seasons, will return to his former club after five years in Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are the latest recruits for the Newcastle side that have also agreed deals for  New Zealand international Hoskins Sotutu and Argentina lock Franco Molina as Red Bull&#8217;s investment in the squad begins to kick in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Austrian energy drinks giant bought the Prem club in August to add to its portfolio of sports teams around the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is an investment which Baxter feels will bear fruit in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You would think with how things are going that their squad will be stronger, but also I think one thing that Newcastle probably haven&#8217;t had quite a long period of time is the off-field investment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously for Newcastle travel is a massive element within what they have to do on a season-by-season basis and all those kind of things on all the sports science background, on the coaching numbers, there&#8217;ll be lots of areas of investment that will go beyond just the squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So those are the things that actually will probably, over a period of time, show the most benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You would think quite quickly they&#8217;ll be a more competitive team based on what they can spend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But the danger of Red Bull I suppose, is that if they get all the other bits right, if you get all your academy structures right, you invest in the right areas there around the coaching and around the facilities, those are the things that year on year will build a really strong side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I expect the bigger influence of Red Bull to happen in say three years time than probably in year one, but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuima is the second Exeter player to agree a summer move to Kingston Park in the past few weeks. Full-back Josh Hodge, who like Tuima has also had call-ups to England&#8217;s &#8216;A&#8217; side in recent seasons, will return to his former club after five years in Devon. They are the latest recruits for the Newcastle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}