{"id":175722,"date":"2025-10-02T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175722\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:39:07","slug":"liam-hood-castleford-sign-hooker-from-wakefield-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175722\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Hood: Castleford sign hooker from Wakefield Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castleford Tigers have made their second acquisition from Wakefield Trinity this week with the signing of hooker Liam Hood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old joins loose forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cz697g4z4ypo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renouf Atoni<\/a> at the newly re-named OneBore Stadium for the 2026 Super League campaign, signing a one-year deal with an option of a further year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hood started his career at Leeds Rhinos back in 2009 and has also turned out for clubs including Salford Red Devils, Leigh and Widnes Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After speaking to Chris [Chester] myself, and him telling me about all the positive things going on at the club, I thought it would be a great move for me,&#8221; Hood <a href=\"https:\/\/castlefordtigers.com\/article\/67\/hood-joins-the-tigers\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Castleford&#8217;s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know it&#8217;s not been a great season this year but I&#8217;m hoping we as a group can change that next year and I&#8217;ll be doing everything I can to play my part in that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of rugby Chester added: &#8220;Liam&#8217;s an experienced, calm head who knows how to control a game through the middle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers have made their second acquisition from Wakefield Trinity this week with the signing of hooker Liam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175722","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\/175722","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=175722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}