{"id":423295,"date":"2026-01-19T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423295\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:29:12","slug":"ex-salford-and-st-helens-star-retires-aged-30-total-rugby-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423295\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Salford and St Helens star retires aged 30 \u2013 Total Rugby League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalrl.com\/ex-salford-and-st-helens-star-retires-aged-30\/\" title=\"Permanent Link to Ex-Salford and St Helens star retires aged 30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"675\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/LussickJoey-AHFC-ACCQF-BP-2-crop-675x360.jpg\" class=\"bestwp-post-thumbnail-single wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JOEY LUSSICK has retired from rugby league at the age of just 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian hooker has made the decision following his release from Parramatta Eels at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Lussick played in Super League for Salford Red Devils (2018-20) and St Helens (2022-23).<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in two major final defeats while with Salford, the 2019 Grand Final and 2020 Challenge Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The only trophy successes of Lussick\u2019s career came in his year and a half at Saints, coming off the bench in both their 2022 Grand Final triumph over Leeds Rhinos and then their subsequent World Club Challenge victory against Penrith Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Lussick returned to Australia in July 2023 for a second spell with Parramatta, where he totalled 37 appearances. Before joining Salford, he also played one NRL game for Manly Sea Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOEY LUSSICK has retired from rugby league at the age of just 30. The Australian hooker has made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-423295","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\/423295","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=423295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}