{"id":162493,"date":"2025-09-26T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162493\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:09:08","slug":"mikey-lewis-hull-kr-half-back-signs-new-five-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162493\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Lewis: Hull KR half-back signs new five year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t see why we can&#8217;t do that and create our own legacy as a team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis was given the number six shirt last December after the club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c4gl2l80z0wo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought the number out of retirement<\/a> with the blessing of club legend Roger Millward&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has followed that up with a stellar 2025, as KR won the Challenge Cup for the first time in 45 years, and a first ever League Leaders&#8217; Shield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lewis, who is likely to end the year in England&#8217;s Ashes Test side against Australia, was named in the Super League Dream Team and can now potentially become the first player to win back-to-back Man of Steel awards since Paul Sculthorpe in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Willie Peters said his new deal was &#8220;important&#8221; for the game in this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a significant signing not just for Hull KR but for the Super League and the game in the UK,&#8221; the Australian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s important for clubs to keep their up-and-coming stars over here with the expansion of the NRL.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t see why we can&#8217;t do that and create our own legacy as a team.&#8221; Lewis was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-162493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}