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Reimis Smith celebrates a Catalans try.(Image: SW PIX)<\/p>\nAnother Catalans player is hanging up the boots.Reimis Smith celebrates a Catalans try.(Image: SW PIX)<\/p>\n
Catalans Dragons back Reimis Smith has confirmed he will retire at the end of the 2025 season \u2013 aged just 28. Smith joined Super League\u2019s French side last year, making five appearances, and has added 17 to his account this term, scoring nine tries.<\/p>\n
But he will now hang up the boots at the end of the year, with the player confirmed as one of 13 leaving the Dragons later this month<\/a>. He will be the third to retire after Sam Tomkins and Elliott Whitehead.<\/p>\n Smith made his professional rugby league debut in the NRL back in 2016. He first played for Canterbury Bulldogs before joining Melbourne Storm, playing 117 games down under and scoring 50 tries.<\/p>\n But Catalans will be his final club, with the player posting a video on his Instagram page to confirm his upcoming retirement.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m announcing my retirement at the season\u2019s end,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI want to thank the coaches who coached me and the physios that helped me out with injuries. Thank you so much for that; I appreciate it.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank all the players that I\u2019ve played with and trained with; I appreciate you guys as well.Also, I want to thank the fans who have followed me throughout my career since 2016 when I made my debut until now. I appreciate you guys,<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank my family. I love you guys so much and appreciate you so much. Thank you for helping me out. I want to thank my wife to be, you ride this rollercoaster as much as me and I want to tell you how much I appreciate and love you.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank you, rugby league, for giving me all I have today. I know I gave you all of me, 110%. Thank you for the good times and thank you for the bad times as well; I appreciate it all.<\/p>\n \u201cAs they say, when one chapter ends, another chapter starts, and I\u2019m super excited to move into the next chapter of my life. There are going to be a couple of exciting things come out.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Catalans are undergoing big changes for 2026 under Joel Tomkins. They have already confirmed several new signings for next season in what is set to be a new-look squad. A full round-up of Super League 2026 signings can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Catalans player is hanging up the boots.Reimis Smith celebrates a Catalans try.(Image: SW PIX) Catalans Dragons back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-113105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}