{"id":210390,"date":"2025-10-13T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:31:10","slug":"another-lions-star-signs-on-for-more-at-northampton-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/210390\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Lions star signs on for more at Northampton Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

England<\/a> scrum-half Alex Mitchell<\/a> has signed a new multi-year contract with Northampton<\/a> Saints, extending a decade-long association with the club.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old becomes the second player this season to renew terms at cinch Stadium at Franklin\u2019s Gardens, further strengthening a core group after fellow halfback Fin Smith signed a contract extension last week.<\/p>\n

Mitchell has made 147 appearances in Black, Green and Gold, scoring 52 tries. One of them sealed Saints\u2019 first league crown in ten years at Twickenham.<\/p>\n

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Witness guitar virtuoso Sophie Lloyd set the stage alight at the Rugby World Cup 2025 Finals with an electrifying medley of Bon Jovi\u2019s \u201cLivin\u2019 on a Prayer\u201d and the Black Eyed Peas\u2019 \u201cPump It\u201d.
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The 5\u201911, 81kg scrumhalf joined from the Sale Sharks<\/a> Academy in 2015 and made his debut in 2017. <\/p>\n

\u201cNorthampton Saints has been my home for the last ten seasons and there\u2019s truly nowhere else I\u2019d rather be playing my rugby,\u201d said Mitchell. \u201cI get to come into the Club and train and play alongside lads I\u2019ve grown up with, some of my best friends, and call it work. It\u2019s not lost on me how lucky I am to be able to say that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel like we\u2019ve got to right some wrongs after last year. We want to get back to the top of the pile in the PREM, keep pushing forward in Europe, and put some more silverware in our trophy cabinet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell broke into the senior side properly under Chris Boyd in the 2018\/19 season, where he went on to play 30 matches as Saints reached the play-offs and lifted the PREM Rugby Cup.<\/p>\n

The Maidstone-born Mitchell has also now won 23 England caps and he featured in three Six Nations<\/a> campaigns and the 2023 Rugby World Cup, where he became England\u2019s starting scrum-half.<\/p>\n

His form earned him selection for the British & Irish Lions<\/a> this summer. He was the only player to feature in all nine matchday squads and ran out in two Tests against Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlex Mitchell is one of the best scrum-halves in the world, and to keep someone of his quality in our environment speaks volumes about the ambitions of this club,\u201d said Saints DoR Phil Dowson.\u00a0\u201cThe relationship he has with his teammates, his work ethic, and his ability to influence games at the highest level make him invaluable. We\u2019re thrilled he\u2019s staying and confident his best rugby is still to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England scrum-half Alex Mitchell has signed a new multi-year contract with Northampton Saints, extending a decade-long association with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-210390","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\/210390","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=210390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}