{"id":26426,"date":"2025-07-28T02:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26426\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:31:14","slug":"cowboys-extend-clifford-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26426\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys extend Clifford | Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Queensland Toyota Cowboys have agreed to a one-year contract extension with homegrown half <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cowboys.com.au\/teams\/nrl-premiership\/north-queensland-cowboys\/jake-clifford\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Clifford<\/a> for the 2026 NRL season.<\/p>\n<p>The Tully Tigers junior is in his second stint at the Cowboys after returning prior to the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>Clifford made his NRL debut for the Cowboys in 2018 and departed mid-way through the 2021 season for the Newcastle Knights.<\/p>\n<p>After a season in the UK Super League with Hull FC in 2023, Clifford returned home in 2024 and played a key role in the club\u2019s charge to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in 10 games in 2025, scoring four tries, including a memorable double to lead the Cowboys to victory over the Raiders in Round 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a tribute to Jake\u2019s attitude and persistence that he has been able to come back to the club and compete for a spot and now when fit, he is in our best 17,\u201d Cowboys General Manager of Football Micheal Luck said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake has one of the bigger boots in the NRL, he is a dangerous runner of the football and he is a strong defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake is a proud North Queenslander with a young family and indicated his preference was to stay at home. We look forward to his contributions for the rest of this season and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Queensland Toyota Cowboys have agreed to a one-year contract extension with homegrown half Jake Clifford for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-26426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426","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=26426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}