{"id":638785,"date":"2026-04-29T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:41:10","slug":"gloucester-hartpury-props-maud-muir-niamh-odowd-sign-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638785\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucester-Hartpury: Props Maud Muir &#038; Niamh O&#8217;Dowd sign new deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England loose-head prop Maud Muir has signed a new deal to stay with Gloucester-Hartpury beyond the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old has already surpassed 50 caps for the Red Roses since her international debut in 2021, winning four Six Nations Grand Slams as well as the World Cup last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muir signed for Gloucester-Hartpury in 2022 from Wasps and has played a part in all three of their Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby titles for the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head of rugby Dan Murphy said Muir is &#8220;one of the best props in the game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She brings a huge amount to the squad, not just in her performances, but in her character within the environment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a real hunger in her to keep improving, which is exciting for us as a club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muir is the third England player to extend her contract with the club following number eight Alex Matthews and winger Emma Sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England loose-head prop Maud Muir has signed a new deal to stay with Gloucester-Hartpury beyond the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-638785","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\/638785","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=638785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}