{"id":957546,"date":"2026-11-08T23:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/957546\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:16:29","slug":"cronulla-sharks-set-to-extend-promising-fullback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/957546\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronulla Sharks set to extend promising fullback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cronulla Sharks<\/a> have offered NSW Cup<\/a> and Newtown Jets star Liam Ison<\/a> an extension to stay at the club beyond 2027.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old impressed in 2024, winning the NSW Cup<\/a> premiership while making his NRL<\/a> debut.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN, the Sharks have Ison in their long-term plans.<\/p>\n

He had an injury setback in 2025, spending the season recovering from an ACL injury.<\/p>\n

In 2026, Ison returned to the NSW Cup<\/a> in round 8 against the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He played 19 games, averaging 165.2 running metres per game on 15.2 carries per game.<\/p>\n

Across the competition, he had 3140 run metres (5th in NSW Cup<\/a>), 113 tackle busts (4th in NSW Cup<\/a>), 18 line break assists (7th in NSW Cup<\/a>) and 11 try assists (22nd in NSW Cup<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"NSWRLSeptember 29, 2024 – Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, Liam Ison of the Newtown Jets during the NSWRL Knock On Effect NSW Cup Grand Final at CommBank Stadium in Parramatta, New South Wales. (Mario Facchini\/mafphotography)<\/p>\n

After the Newtown Jets finished 4th in the competition, Ison only featured in the first week of the finals against the Warriors, where he had 219 run metres, 1 line break and 7 tackle busts, having the most run metres in the game of all players (the 4th time he’s had the most run metres of all players in a game).<\/p>\n

Ison suffered a knee injury in the first week of the finals, which ruled him out for the rest of their finals campaign.<\/p>\n

The Newtown Jets made the NSW Cup<\/a> Grand Final, losing to the Penrith Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sharks have offered William Kennedy<\/a> one-year extensions on a pay-cut deal in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

Kennedy is among Briton Nikora<\/a> and Teig Wilton<\/a>, testing the open market and exploring their options.<\/p>\n

During the season, Kennedy was linked to options in Super League<\/a> and the Perth Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the experience the Sharks have lost, the club will see a lot of young talent competing for spots in the first-grade side.<\/p>\n

This new Ison deal could have made Kennedy expendable as the Sharks look to retool their roster around Nicho Hynes<\/a>, Braydon Trindall<\/a> and Blayke Brailey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cronulla Sharks have offered NSW Cup and Newtown Jets star Liam Ison an extension to stay at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-957546","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\/957546","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=957546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}