{"id":53079,"date":"2025-07-05T20:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T20:51:43","slug":"breaking-josh-papalii-confirms-shock-switch-to-st-helens-for-2026-super-league-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d79db4796efc26332eabfc3f5dafbc76\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inarticle\">\r\n    <div class=\"hb-ad-inner\"> \r\n    <div class=\"hbagency_cls\"  id=\"hbagency_space_111930\"><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Josh Papali\u2019i Set for Super League Switch in 2026 with St Helens<\/p>\n<p>Veteran NRL forward Josh Papali\u2019i has confirmed he will leave the Canberra Raiders at the end of the 2025 season and take up a new challenge with English Super League giants **St Helens** in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Papali\u2019i, 33, announced his plans during a radio interview, revealing that the 2025 season will be his last in the NRL. \u201cWhen it comes to the end of 2025, it\u2019ll be the last time people see me in a green jersey,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d love to keep playing on, but just not in Canberra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Samoa and Queensland representative has spent his entire NRL career with the Raiders, debuting in 2011 and amassing over 280 appearances. Known for his toughness and work ethic, Papali\u2019i has long been regarded as one of the game\u2019s premier front-rowers.<\/p>\n<p>St Helens, one of Super League\u2019s most successful clubs, are understood to have made initial enquiries earlier this year, and Papali\u2019i is now set to join the four-time champions as part of their forward rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>While the move is not expected to be officially registered until closer to the end of 2025, Papali\u2019i\u2019s experience and leadership are expected to be a major asset for Saints in their 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;. &nbsp; &nbsp; Josh Papali\u2019i Set for Super League Switch in 2026 with St Helens Veteran NRL forward Josh Papali\u2019i has confirmed he will leave the Canberra Raiders at the end of the 2025 season and take up a new challenge with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":53082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St ..<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season.......................\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St ..\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season.......................\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"letsportsrock\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-05T20:51:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"739\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shughun Ivory\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shughun Ivory\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Shughun Ivory\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/674619adef31b09138e9ccd4e2852ee0\"},\"headline\":\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;.\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-05T20:51:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/images-67.jpeg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079\",\"name\":\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St ..\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/images-67.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-05T20:51:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/674619adef31b09138e9ccd4e2852ee0\"},\"description\":\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season.......................\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/images-67.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/images-67.jpeg\",\"width\":739,\"height\":415},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?p=53079#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"letsportsrock\",\"description\":\"Sport News and Updates\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/674619adef31b09138e9ccd4e2852ee0\",\"name\":\"Shughun Ivory\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0461d8b87ac229159ac526ebabd85108a5009b97923e896e2a506577805f8fc1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0461d8b87ac229159ac526ebabd85108a5009b97923e896e2a506577805f8fc1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/0461d8b87ac229159ac526ebabd85108a5009b97923e896e2a506577805f8fc1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Shughun Ivory\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/Letsportsrock.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.letsportsrock.com\\\/?author=11\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St ..","description":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season.......................","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St ..","og_description":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season.......................","og_url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079","og_site_name":"letsportsrock","article_published_time":"2025-07-05T20:51:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":739,"height":415,"url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Shughun Ivory","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Shughun Ivory","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079"},"author":{"name":"Shughun Ivory","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/#\/schema\/person\/674619adef31b09138e9ccd4e2852ee0"},"headline":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;.","datePublished":"2025-07-05T20:51:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079"},"wordCount":243,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079","url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079","name":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St ..","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg","datePublished":"2025-07-05T20:51:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/#\/schema\/person\/674619adef31b09138e9ccd4e2852ee0"},"description":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season.......................","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg","width":739,"height":415},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?p=53079#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BREAKING: Josh Papali\u2019i Confirms Shock Switch to St Helens for 2026 Super League Season&#8230;."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/","name":"letsportsrock","description":"Sport News and Updates","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/#\/schema\/person\/674619adef31b09138e9ccd4e2852ee0","name":"Shughun Ivory","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0461d8b87ac229159ac526ebabd85108a5009b97923e896e2a506577805f8fc1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0461d8b87ac229159ac526ebabd85108a5009b97923e896e2a506577805f8fc1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0461d8b87ac229159ac526ebabd85108a5009b97923e896e2a506577805f8fc1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Shughun Ivory"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/Letsportsrock.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/?author=11"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images-67.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53083,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53079\/revisions\/53083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.letsportsrock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}