{"id":379263,"date":"2025-12-30T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:09:13","slug":"ex-nrl-hooker-signs-with-new-team-for-2026-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379263\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NRL hooker signs with new team for 2026 &#8211; NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A former dummy-half and playmaker for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/st-george-illawarra-dragons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/craig-garvey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Garvey<\/a> has agreed to join a new team, which will see him continue his rugby league playing career.<\/p>\n<p>Named the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/ron-massey-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Massey Cup<\/a> Player of the Year, the 32-year-old has agreed to link up with the Nambucca Heads Roosters, who compete in the Tooheys New Group 2 competition and are coming off a premiership victory in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Last playing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> in 2017, Garvey featured in 23 matches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> with ten of those coming during his time with the Dragons and the other 13 from his tenure at the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>He also represented the Indigenous All Stars in the annual pre-season clash in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Garvey&#8217;s younger brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/grant-garvey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Garvey<\/a>, also played in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a>, registering a single match for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nrl\/teams\/sydney-roosters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Roosters<\/a> and was also a two-time Under-18s representative for the New South Wales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/rugby-league\/teams\/nsw-blues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely happy to announce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/players\/craig-garvey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Garvey<\/a> has signed up for the 2026 season.<br class=\"html-br\"\/>Craig has played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NRL<\/a> for the Dragons and the Bulldogs and is an extremely professional rugby league player,&#8221; a statement from the club read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerotackle.com\/nswrl-competitions\/ron-massey-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Massey Cup<\/a> with the Glebe Dirty Reds, Craig will be a massive asset to our young squad. We are very excited to see what 2026 will bring for Craig at our proud club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; A former dummy-half and playmaker for the Canterbury Bulldogs and St George Illawarra Dragons, Craig Garvey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-379263","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\/379263","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=379263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}