{"id":950517,"date":"2026-11-03T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950517\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:48:11","slug":"bulldogs-forward-bound-for-super-league-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/950517\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs forward bound for Super League transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Castleford Tigers<\/a> are set to complete the signing of Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> forward Jack Todd<\/a>, who will join a group of NRL<\/a> players heading to the Super League<\/a> club.<\/p>\n

Todd has been with the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> since 2019 through the club’s academy pathways after moving to Sydney from Dungowan.<\/p>\n

He debuted in the NRL<\/a> during 2025 and played four games that year.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old has not played an NRL<\/a> game since last year.<\/p>\n

According to Love Rugby League, Todd has verbally agreed to a deal with the Castleford Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Castleford changed its head coach, shifting from newly signed Wests Tigers<\/a> assistant Ryan Carr<\/a> to Paul Rowley.<\/p>\n

The English club has made several signings with NRL<\/a> experience for 2027, including Damien Cook<\/a>, Mathew Feagai<\/a>, Tyrell Sloan<\/a> and Mason Lino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Todd has been playing for the Bulldogs NSW Cup<\/a> side, featuring in 12 games this season.<\/p>\n

In 38 minutes per game, he averaged 84 running metres and made 20.5 tackles per game at 92.5% tackle efficiency per contest.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs NSW Cup<\/a> side finished 7th this season and missed the finals for their fourth consecutive season.<\/p>\n

Castleford were initially targeting Josh Kerr<\/a> from the Dragons NRL<\/a> side; however, he has agreed to a deal with Hull FC<\/a> alongside Daly Cherry-Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The club has reportedly ‘earmarked’ Todd to be the Tigers’ starting lock next season.<\/p>\n

However, any deal involving Jack Todd<\/a> will require the club to release players, as they are already over the 10-overseas-players quota.<\/p>\n

Castleford has 11 overseas players and would have to release two to sign Todd.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the Tigers have Renouf Atoni<\/a>, Damien Cook<\/a>, Mathew Feagai<\/a>, Brock Greacen<\/a>, Mason Lino<\/a>, Krystian Mapapalangi<\/a>, Mikaele Ravalawa<\/a>, Tyrell Sloan<\/a>, Blake Taaffe<\/a>, Semi Valemei<\/a> and Thomas Weaver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ravalawa and Weaver are likely to look for a new club, per Love Rugby League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the club finalising Todd’s deal, they will now look for outside backs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Castleford Tigers are set to complete the signing of Canterbury Bulldogs forward Jack Todd, who will join…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-950517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950517","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=950517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}