{"id":327744,"date":"2025-12-04T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327744\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:42:08","slug":"lewis-ludlow-gloucester-flanker-signs-new-deal-to-stay-with-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327744\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Ludlow: Gloucester flanker signs new deal to stay with club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloucester stalwart Lewis Ludlow has signed a new contract to stay with the club into the 2026-27 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back row Ludlow made his 250th appearance for the Cherry and Whites last weekend in what is his 11th campaign with the club having come through their academy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old was Gloucester captain for five seasons from 2020 before being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c99m8edlvg1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replaced by Tomos Williams<\/a> at the start of this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of rugby George Skivington said Ludlow would go down as a &#8220;legend&#8221; of the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His professionalism, warrior-like mentality, and the passion he brings to the club set the standard for any player,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On the field, Luds continues to deliver when it matters, and that&#8217;s ultimately why we&#8217;ve extended his contract ahead of the 2026-27 season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucester stalwart Lewis Ludlow has signed a new contract to stay with the club into the 2026-27 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-327744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327744","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=327744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}