{"id":206925,"date":"2025-10-17T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206925\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:45:12","slug":"bradford-bulls-and-jordan-lilley-part-ways-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/206925\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls and Jordan Lilley part ways after eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Comfortably their top points scorer in the post-Super League era, Lilley helped Bulls to promotion from League 1 in 2018, while he has also been part of a side that has reached the Championship play-offs in four of the last five seasons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Primarily a half back, Lilley has also shown his ability at hooker over the last couple of years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the second half of last season, with Tom Holmes and Joe Keyes making the halves positions their own, Lilley tended to start at number nine ahead of talented Mitch Souter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Jordan Lilley playing for Bulls during the 2023 play-off semi-final defeat against Toulouse. (Image: Tom Pearson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  By while the Australian is set to stay at Odsal, Lilley is not, and he said on social media: \u201cProud as anything to be able to play a small part in this great club back where it belongs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cUnfortunately, that\u2019s where my journey ends.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cEight long years and unbelievable memories that I\u2019ll never forget.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThank you to every player and staff member I\u2019ve worked with over the years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cLastly, thank you to all the fans who sang my song week in, week out and made me feel at home since the day I walked through the door.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s now time for me, my boys and step-daughter to sit back and be fans from the stands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comfortably their top points scorer in the post-Super League era, Lilley helped Bulls to promotion from League 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-206925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206925","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=206925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}