{"id":445742,"date":"2026-01-29T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:14:17","slug":"will-butt-exeter-sign-bath-centre-on-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445742\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Butt: Exeter sign Bath centre on three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter have agreed a deal to sign Bath centre Will Butt on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old will move to Sandy Park in the summer after spending his entire career with Bath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Butt, who came up through their academy, has played 46 times since making his senior debut in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started both Bath&#8217;s European Challenge Cup and Premiership Rugby Cup final wins last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Butt&#8217;s switch comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cdxjp2e8l2qo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Rigg agreed a move from Exeter to Newcastle in the summer.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a big, physical guy,&#8221; Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter told BBC Sport of his new signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think he&#8217;s played a lot of rugby in a good side, he understands how Bath play and understands the tactical side of what they need from him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s had some very, very good games in a very, very competitive squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We feel he&#8217;s got that kind of right combination of size and strength and skill base that we think will improve us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter have agreed a deal to sign Bath centre Will Butt on a three-year contract. The 26-year-old will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-445742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445742","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=445742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}