{"id":658683,"date":"2026-05-08T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658683\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:35:13","slug":"hooker-damien-cook-to-join-castleford-tigers-for-2027-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658683\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooker Damien Cook to join Castleford Tigers for 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Australia international and State of Origin hooker Damien Cook has agreed a two-year deal with Castleford Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old, who currently plays for St George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League, will join the Super League club for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cook has played in four Tests for the Kangaroos and 17 State of Origin matches for New South Wales, as well as making 248 appearances in the NRL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Damien is a terrific signing for our club,&#8221; Cas head coach Ryan Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefordtigers.com\/article\/327\/castleford-tigers-sign-damien-cook\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a great person, a proven leader and an outstanding rugby league player who brings a wealth of experience and a real competitive edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His professionalism and desire for success fit perfectly with what we&#8217;re building here at Castleford.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australia international and State of Origin hooker Damien Cook has agreed a two-year deal with Castleford Tigers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-658683","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\/658683","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=658683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}