{"id":700067,"date":"2026-05-28T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:17:09","slug":"saracens-gareth-simpson-louie-johnson-and-sam-spink-among-eight-departing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700067\/","title":{"rendered":"Saracens: Gareth Simpson, Louie Johnson and Sam Spink among eight departing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scrum-half Gareth Simpson, fly-half Louie Johnson and centre Sam Spink are all to leave Saracens at the end of the season, with their contracts expiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simpson, 28, made 48 appearances for Sarries, including six this season in the Prem Rugby Cup and three off the bench in the Prem and the Champions Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnson, 22, played 13 times after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/68733019\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">move from Newcastle in 2024,<\/a> with seven in the Prem Rugby Cup this term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spink, 26, made three appearances in the Prem Rugby Cup this season and one in the Champions Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scrum-half Gareth Simpson, fly-half Louie Johnson and centre Sam Spink are all to leave Saracens at the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-700067","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\/700067","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=700067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}