The 19-year-old \u2013 who has played throughout the Penrith Panthers system \u2013 arrives at Concord following a strong 2025, having made his SG Ball Cup, Jersey Flegg Cup and Knock on Effect NSW Cup all in the same season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This follows Attard\u2019s selection in the 2024 Australian Schoolboys squad, courtesy of an outstanding Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League (ASSRL) Championship campaign, which included a dominant Grand Final performance, as he led NSW Combined Catholic Colleges to a 40-12 win over NSW Combined High Schools.<\/p>\n
Attard was joined on the Australian Schoolboys tour by Wests Tigers Pathways player, Jared Haywood, with the pair set to be part of the first wave of returning players for the 2026 pre-season.<\/p>\n
On signing his new deal, Attard said he was looking forward to meeting his teammates and getting started with his new Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery excited to be joining the Wests Tigers and ripping in with the boys to kick off pre-season,\u201d Attard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter speaking with Benji and seeing what\u2019s been happening around the Club, I\u2019m looking forward to what\u2019s ahead and being part of this group. There\u2019s a lot of great players and coaches here at the Tigers and I\u2019m keen to learn as much as I can and continue to improve my game,\u201d Attard concluded.<\/p>\n
Wests Tigers Head Coach, Benji Marshall welcomed Attard\u2019s arrival to the Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cA great young kid who we\u2019re really happy to have joining us this year,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack will be a great fit for our group. He\u2019s got a lot of talent but also a really good young character who wants to develop and grow as player.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to welcoming Jack and his family into the Club and getting started with pre-season,\u201d Marshall concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 19-year-old \u2013 who has played throughout the Penrith Panthers system \u2013 arrives at Concord following a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-260822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260822","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=260822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}