{"id":185838,"date":"2025-10-08T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185838\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:14:12","slug":"konrad-hurrell-posts-emotional-farewell-to-st-helens-ahead-of-next-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185838\/","title":{"rendered":"Konrad Hurrell posts emotional farewell to St Helens ahead of next chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PC1_2723.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"St Helens\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Konrad Hurrell has posted an emotional farewell to St Helens after seeing his contract come to an end at the Totally Wicked Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Hurrell has spent four seasons with the Saints, with the centre making 64 appearances and scoring 26 tries along the way. During that time, he won the Super League Grand Final and the World Club Challenge, with the latter being the last trophy Saints won, back in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This year has been a challenging one for the Tongan, with his sole appearance in a St Helens shirt coming against West Hull in the Challenge Cup in February. As such, his only game time since has come on loan at Halifax Panthers, Swinton Lions and Bradford Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Serious About Rugby League has launched a brand new podcast which can be watched in full on our <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/86PEmyarFog?si=Ln5Z8V7doIyNL5fn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube channel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was de-registered back in August to make way for the arrival of Salford Red Devils loanee Shane Wright, and it was announced last month that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league-news-konrad-hurrell-secures-new-club-after-st-helens-exit-108476\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> he would spend the 2025-26 season with French outfit Lezignan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, in a message posted on Instagram, Hurrell has officially said goodbye to St Helens and Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p>Konrad Hurrell\u2019s St Helens farewell<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHANK YOU @saints1890,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am blessed to be a part of this great club\u2019s history. I can\u2019t thank enough the Club , Coaches , Staffs for putting up with me for the last 4 years. It has been an amazing journey even better making a Tongan kids dream come true by winning my first Ring<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all my tokos sorry for eating all your lunches and taking the p*** out of you guys. But seriously I am one of them lucky players that get to put on a jersey next to you all and get to train and learn from you all. No more extra time rest for you guys waiting for me to finish my running, all the very best lads<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll love to our crazy fans going to miss the singing photos videos and watching the craziness happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to take our @becbates St Helens born kids back home before they don\u2019t want to move back anymore<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you all again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759084633_634_srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Konrad Hurrell has posted an emotional farewell to St Helens after seeing his contract come to an end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-185838","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\/185838","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=185838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}