{"id":18452,"date":"2025-08-14T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tom-christie-newcastle-red-bulls-sign-crusaders-flanker-on-two-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:00:59","slug":"tom-christie-newcastle-red-bulls-sign-crusaders-flanker-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tom-christie-newcastle-red-bulls-sign-crusaders-flanker-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Christie: Newcastle Red Bulls sign Crusaders flanker on two-year deal"},"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 flanker Tom Christie on a two-year deal from Super Rugby side Crusaders.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old is a three-time Super Rugby winner with Crusaders having won the Pacific finals in three of the past four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Christie, a former New Zealand Under-20 captain, has made over 50 appearances for the Crusaders and skippered them for the first time against the Chiefs in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly excited to be joining Newcastle, a club with such a rich history and passionate fanbase,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastlefalcons.co.uk\/tom-christie-joins-newcastle-red-bulls\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the plans and backing from the new investors, I believe we can achieve something special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After my conversation with Steve [Diamond] I knew this was where I wanted to be. I can&#8217;t wait to contribute to the team and help the club achieve its goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cvgpd7qpn8zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Red Bulls have signed flanker Tom Christie on a two-year deal from Super Rugby side Crusaders. The 27-year-old is a three-time Super Rugby winner with Crusaders having won the Pacific finals in three of the past four years. Christie, a former New Zealand Under-20 captain, has made over 50 appearances for the Crusaders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}