{"id":235535,"date":"2025-10-23T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235535\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:17:10","slug":"adam-cook-leigh-leopards-sign-half-back-from-nrl-side-canberra-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235535\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Cook: Leigh Leopards sign half-back from NRL side Canberra Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leigh Leopards have signed half-back Adam Cook from National Rugby League side Canberra Raiders on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old joined the Raiders in 2019 and made his NRL debut for the club the following season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having mainly played in the NSW Cup, Cook has made a total of eight NRL appearances for Canberra, with one of those coming in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Adam is a player we have been tracking as a club for the past two years &#8211; he can take control of the game, something we feel we can add to our team,&#8221; Leigh boss Adrian Lam <a href=\"https:\/\/leighleopards.co.uk\/welcome-to-leigh-leopards-adam-cook\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As coaches here we feel we can develop him to the next level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a player who can influence our performances and the style we play will suit him. We are very excited with what he can bring to the club in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a goalkicker, has a great kicking game and his combinations with Lachlan Lam are going to be a key to our success in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards have signed half-back Adam Cook from National Rugby League side Canberra Raiders on a three-year deal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-235535","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\/235535","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=235535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}