{"id":518536,"date":"2026-03-04T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518536\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:23:08","slug":"george-barton-gloucester-rugby-back-signs-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518536\/","title":{"rendered":"George Barton: Gloucester Rugby back signs contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Versatile Gloucester back George Barton has signed a contract extension with the Prem club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old, who joined the club&#8217;s academy in 2014 and made his first-team debut in 2019, has made over 70 appearances for the Cherry and Whites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Comfortable at both fly-half and full-back, Barton has become an important part of the first-team squad in the Prem, Prem Rugby Cup and Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach George Skivington told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club website, external<\/a> he was delighted to have secured Barton&#8217;s immediate future at Kingsholm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;George is highly regarded here at the club and by our supporters, especially as a local lad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He is a highly competitive individual and can cover multiple positions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He also has one of the best kicking percentages in the PREM. I believe the best is yet to come for George and I&#8217;m really pleased he&#8217;s chosen to stay at his hometown club.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Versatile Gloucester back George Barton has signed a contract extension with the Prem club. The 25-year-old, who joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-518536","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\/518536","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=518536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}