{"id":112465,"date":"2021-08-06T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=112465"},"modified":"2021-08-06T02:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T02:58:15","slug":"former-test-stars-nephew-signs-with-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=112465","title":{"rendered":"Former Test star&#039;s nephew signs with Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nephew of former Test forward and boxing champion Solomon Haumono has signed with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"the Dragons\">the Dragons<\/a> after a three-way tug-of-war for his signature.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/penrith-panthers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Penrith\">Penrith<\/a> junior and NSW under 15 representative, Finau Latu is a powerhouse lock and his services were in high demand in recent months.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"49f1acc2-5339-45ba-948f-803cd446f4fe\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/49f1acc2-5339-45ba-948f-803cd446f4fe\" alt=\"Solomon Haumono&#x27;s nephew Finau Latu has signed with the Dragons.\" data-width=\"1104\" data-height=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the Patrician Brothers Fairfield 15-year-old has decided to join the Dragons and will enter their pathways system next year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was a tough decision but he ended up going for the Dragons because Kyle Stanley, the head of pathways at St George, scouted him and kept showing interest,&quot; Latu&#x27;s manager\u00a0Michael Chebl from Crown Sports Management told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d18743d3-7b4e-4fc9-bd13-3c37f90d8aa2\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d18743d3-7b4e-4fc9-bd13-3c37f90d8aa2\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"2770\" data-height=\"2273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Haumono was a talented forward with Manly, Canterbury, Balmain, and the Dragons who played for both Australia and Tonga in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>He made front page news around the league world in 1998 when he walked out on the Bulldogs mid-season to follow his then girlfriend, model Gabrielle Richens, to England.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The nephew of former Test forward and boxing champion Solomon Haumono has signed with the Dragons after a three-way tug-of-war for his signature. A Penrith <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=112465\" title=\"Former Test star&#039;s nephew signs with Dragons\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112467,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112465\/revisions\/112467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}