{"id":212086,"date":"2025-06-25T03:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212086\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T03:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:21:17","slug":"premiership-sees-another-player-make-rugby-league-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212086\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership sees another player make rugby league switch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newcastle Falcons\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/jack-metcalf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Metcalf<\/a> has joined rugby league outfit Leeds Rhinos on a one-month trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Yorkshire-born back grew up playing rugby league before embarking on a career in union, but will mark his return with a Leeds side that side in fourth-place in the Super League ladder.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old joined the Falcons last summer from Doncaster Knights in the Championship and went on to make four appearances in the north east.<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf will follow in the footsteps of Gloucester\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/christian-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Wade<\/a>, who joined Super League champions Wigan Warriors at the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/premiership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallagher Premiership<\/a> season.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750821676_280_801.png.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> Argentina <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750821677_389_804.png.webp\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> England <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/argentina-vs-england\/?g=946252\/\" class=\"link-box\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">   <\/p>\n<p>Newcastle are set to see a number of players leave the club this summer, and Metcalf has become the latest player to join that list.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s fortunes may change, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/red-bulls-newcastle-deal-imminent-with-barrett-providing-inspiration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with energy drinks giant Red Bull on the verge of buying the club. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Falcons director of rugby Steve Diamond said: \u201cJack is a talented sportsman who applied himself well during his time with us, and I\u2019d like to thank him and wish him all the best for his move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity to head back to his home county of Yorkshire, and with the ability he has got I would back him to make a real go of it in rugby league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leeds Rhinos sporting director Ian Blease said: \u201cWe are pleased to give Jack an opportunity to join us on trial for a month. In Union, he has played full back, centre and wing and this will be a chance for him to test himself in rugby league. He is a Leeds lad and he has settled in well with the group already.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Falcons\u2019 Jack Metcalf has joined rugby league outfit Leeds Rhinos on a one-month trial. The Yorkshire-born back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-212086","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\/114741856712085191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212086","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=212086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}