{"id":171832,"date":"2025-09-27T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171832\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:11:09","slug":"newtown-jets-icon-and-ex-nrl-utility-announces-retirement-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171832\/","title":{"rendered":"Newtown Jets icon and ex-NRL utility announces retirement – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An icon of the NSW Cup<\/a> competition for the Newtown Jets and former utility for the Cronulla Sharks<\/a>, Billy Magoulias<\/a>, has announced his retirement from rugby league.<\/p>\n

Playing with the Newtown Jets for the past eight seasons, Magoulias has decided to hang up the boots on his playing career after stints in the NSW Cup<\/a>, NRL<\/a> and Super League<\/a> competitions.<\/p>\n

Although he is mainly known for his time with the Jets, he also featured in 17 matches for the Cronulla Sharks<\/a> between 2019-2021 and had a one-year stint at the Warrington Wolves<\/a> where he appeared for the club on 12 different occasions.<\/p>\n

Also a five-time international for Greece<\/a>, Magoulias will be fondly remembered for his heroics with the Newtown Jets, which saw him win two NSW Cup<\/a> titles and one State Championship with them.<\/p>\n

In particular, six years ago, in 2019, where he produced two moments of magic for the Jets.<\/p>\n

In the 2019 NSW Cup<\/a> Grand Final, he set up the game-winning try, which saw fullback William Kennedy<\/a> cross the line, and a week later, he produced a chip-kick, which saw them defeat the Burleigh Bears in the State Championship match.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it is pretty crazy when you look back at it to think how did you do that? But, for me, I don’t sit there and talk about it personally \u2013 that doesn’t really [play] on my mind \u2013 but every time I talk to a Newtown fan, they always remind you of it,” he told\u00a0The Sydney Morning Herald\u00a0in 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI guess it’s good when the fans are getting enjoyment, because the Newtown fans, it’s not just like a feeder club to an NRL<\/a> club, they’ve got their own set of fans, and they’ve got their own club and their own culture, their own sponsors, so they run their own show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess that’s probably the coolest part, is them enjoying that experience where we did win the competition and then go on to win it the next week.<\/p>\n

“For me, that’s probably the best thing that comes out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An icon of the NSW Cup competition for the Newtown Jets and former utility for the Cronulla Sharks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-171832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171832","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=171832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}