{"id":490282,"date":"2026-02-19T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:20:25","slug":"lindsay-smith-re-signs-with-penrith-panthers-on-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490282\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Smith re-signs with Penrith Panthers on three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penrith<\/a> have been given a major boost heading into the season, with representative forward Lindsay Smith<\/a> committing to the club for a further three years.<\/p>\n

Smith, who played two games for the Kangaroos<\/a>, has developed into one of the Panthers’ main men in the middle and is already a two-time premiership winner.<\/p>\n

He stepped into the void left by James Fisher-Harris<\/a> last season and with his contract set to expire at the end of this year, Penrith moved quickly to extend him until 2029.<\/p>\n

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“Lindsay is a tremendous asset to our team, both in what he delivers on the field and the standards he sets every day at training,” head coach Ivan Cleary said.<\/p>\n

“His work ethic, consistency and physicality are invaluable to our forward pack.”<\/p>\n

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Lindsay Smith.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Penrith general manager Shane Elford said it was a priority re-signing for the club.<\/p>\n

“Lindsay is developing into one of the elite props in the competition, and we’re extremely pleased to have re-signed him,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He has come through our pathways and understands what it means to represent the Panthers and our community.”<\/p>\n

Smith has played 80 games for Penrith, featuring in the 2023 and 2024 grand final wins.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old’s retention is a crucial one for the Panthers, who will lose Liam Henry to the Perth Bears at the end of this season<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penrith have been given a major boost heading into the season, with representative forward Lindsay Smith committing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-490282","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\/490282","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=490282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}