{"id":6274,"date":"2026-01-19T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:47:13","slug":"fehi-fineanganofo-newcastle-red-bulls-sign-winger-from-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6274","title":{"rendered":"Fehi Fineanganofo: Newcastle Red Bulls sign winger from next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Newcastle Red Bulls have signed winger Fehi Fineanganofo on a two-year deal from the beginning of the 2026-27 Prem season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old will join from New Zealand having turned out for Bay of Plenty at Provincial level and Hurricanes in Super Rugby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fineanganofo has also represented New Zealand in sevens, including at the Paris Olympics in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited for this new challenge and opportunity at Newcastle Red Bulls, but my main focus right now is Super Rugby and NPC here in New Zealand,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastleredbulls.com\/en\/articles\/fehi-fineaganofo-to-join-newcastle-red-bulls\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">he told the Bulls&#8217; club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m super grateful to New Zealand Rugby, the All Black 7s, Bay of Plenty and Hurricanes for the chance to achieve my dream of becoming a professional player. I&#8217;m especially grateful for the support I&#8217;ve had over the years, getting me through injuries and back on the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to end off this year the right way, and to chase trophies in both Super Rugby and NPC. After that I can&#8217;t wait to start a new chapter with Newcastle Red Bulls, and the brand of rugby they want to bring to the Gallagher Prem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fineanganofo has scored 16 tries in 24 games for Bay of Plenty, while he scored six tries in 12 games for the Hurricanes last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has enjoyed a pretty rapid rise in New Zealand through their sevens programme and into Super Rugby, and we see Newcastle Red Bulls as a great stage to showcase his talents,&#8221; sporting general manager Neil McIlroy added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Red Bulls have signed winger Fehi Fineanganofo on a two-year deal from the beginning of the 2026-27 Prem season. The 23-year-old will join from New Zealand having turned out for Bay of Plenty at Provincial level and Hurricanes in Super Rugby. Fineanganofo has also represented New Zealand in sevens, including at the Paris Olympics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6274","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\/6274","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=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}