{"id":184825,"date":"2025-10-08T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184825\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:29:08","slug":"rob-du-preez-sale-sharks-back-to-leave-club-at-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184825\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob du Preez: Sale Sharks back to leave club at the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale Sharks back Rob du Preez will leave the club at the end of the 2025-26 campaign to &#8220;pursue an opportunity abroad&#8221;, the club have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old South African plays at fly-half or centre and has made more than 160 appearances for the Sharks since signing initially on loan in 2018, before making the move permanent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He holds the record for the most consecutive starts in Prem matches, with 76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Du Preez, who is out of contract at the end of the campaign, said the decision to leave had been a &#8220;really difficult&#8221; one to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks back Rob du Preez will leave the club at the end of the 2025-26 campaign to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-184825","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\/184825","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=184825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}