{"id":336485,"date":"2025-12-09T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336485\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:32:09","slug":"destructive-bulldogs-star-signs-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336485\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Destructive\u2019: Bulldogs star signs two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off-contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bulldogs<\/a> forward Viliame Kikau could have tested the NRL market\u2014but he isn\u2019t going anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Fijian international has signed a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bulldogs.com.au\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/kikau-kicks-on-bulldogs-re-sign-fijian-powerhouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-year extension<\/a> which will keep him with the Canterbury Bulldogs until at least the end of the 2028 NRL season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kikau arrived at Belmore in 2023 after winning back-to-back premierships with Penrith and quickly became a senior leader under head coach Cameron Ciraldo, winning the Dr. George Peponis Medal in 2024 as the club\u2019s player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to be staying at the Bulldogs,\u201d Kikau said as news of his extension was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/katoa-solution-smart-mouthguards-martin-lang-nrl-concussion\/9d69f7a6ebadbedfee12054e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Katoa \u2018solution\u2019 is mouthguards says former NRL, Origin forward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis club has embraced my family and I since day one so it was an easy decision to re-sign,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love being part of what we&#8217;re building here, we\u2019ve made great progress over the past couple of years, but we want to achieve more &#8211; I want to help this club win its next premiership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulldogs boss Phil Gould\u00a0was understandably delighted with the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re absolutely thrilled to secure Viliame\u2019s services for another two years,\u201d Gould said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince arriving at the club, Viliame has been everything we hoped for and more, he\u2019s a genuine leader, a wonderful person and one of the most destructive players in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to call Viliame a Bulldog and are excited that he\u2019s with us for the long-haul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-contract Bulldogs forward Viliame Kikau could have tested the NRL market\u2014but he isn\u2019t going anywhere.\u00a0 The 30-year-old Fijian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-336485","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\/336485","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=336485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}