{"id":565396,"date":"2026-03-26T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:20:09","slug":"leighs-trout-to-join-sharks-for-2027-nrl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565396\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh&#8217;s Trout to join Sharks for 2027 NRL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Leopards forward Owen Trout will join National Rugby League side Cronulla Sharks for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>The England international, who won his first cap against Australia in last year&#8217;s Ashes series, has agreed a two-year deal with the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The move will bring to an end the 26-year-old&#8217;s three-season stint with Leopards, having signed for them in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Owen&#8217;s style of play is well suited for success in the NRL,&#8221; Sharks&#8217; general manager Darren Mooney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharks.com.au\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/sharks-reel-in-trout-as-englishman-signs-two-year-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told the club website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told the club website.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told the club website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he is at the right stage of his career to make the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He still has a job to do at Leigh, and our focus is firmly on the current NRL season, but we look forward to welcoming him to the club in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trout played all 27 games for Leigh in the 2025 Super League season, plus their semi-final play-off loss to rivals Wigan.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774520409_929_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards forward Owen Trout will join National Rugby League side Cronulla Sharks for the 2027 season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,4565,278333,278332,276664,94195,94196,204287,761,762,158,278331,85],"class_list":["post-565396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-darren-mooney","tag-dewsbury-rams","tag-featherstone-rovers","tag-huddersfield-giants","tag-leeds-rhinos","tag-leigh-leopards","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-owen-trout","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565396","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=565396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}