{"id":178346,"date":"2025-06-12T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178346\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:14:10","slug":"amy-rule-exeter-chiefs-sign-new-zealand-prop-in-historic-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/178346\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Rule: Exeter Chiefs sign New Zealand prop in historic deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rule is the second overseas player to agree to move to Sandy Park this month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2x1ge2jq0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy winger Francesca Granzotto.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rugby has given me so many opportunities and has made me the person I am today,&#8221; Rule said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Getting the chance to join Exeter is a part of that journey to grow my rugby but also make new connections and see what the hype is about this England comp[etition] that I keep hearing about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The plan is to make Black Ferns&#8217; Rugby World Cup squad then carry on to join Exeter later in the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All I can say at this point is all my focus is on the World Cup but once that&#8217;s done, I&#8217;m really excited to rip into the season with Exeter Chiefs and hopefully play lots of rugby and take my game to another level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter finished fifth in the PWR last season, narrowly missing out on a place in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Women&#8217;s World Cup takes place in England between 22 August and 27 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rule is the second overseas player to agree to move to Sandy Park this month after Italy winger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-178346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114670343491865781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}