{"id":216768,"date":"2025-10-22T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/216768\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:43:11","slug":"championship-club-sign-star-centre-from-promoted-super-league-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/216768\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship club sign star centre from promoted Super League club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2400\" height=\"1720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AM20906.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" 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>One of the sides hoping to compete atop the Championship in 2026 have signed another player from Super League, with Sheffield Eagles now creating a formidable squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles, who had a torrid first year under Craig Lingard when they finished 11th in the Championship, have been very aggressive in the market already and signed a host of Super League names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league-news-super-league-veteran-makes-championship-switch-to-link-up-with-former-coach-109478\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Griffin and Josh Hodson have both arrived from Castleford Tigers<\/a> whilst Joe Brown and Conor Fitzsimmons have both signed from promoted club York Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Now,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league-news-bradford-bulls-announce-seven-departures-from-club-including-retiring-super-league-veterans-109617\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> released Bradford Bulls centre Kieran Gill<\/a> becomes the club\u2019s latest signing as yet another player from one of the promoted Super League sides signs in the Steel City.<\/p>\n<p>Gill has incredible pedigree in the Championship with his record at Bradford speaking for itself, scoring 74 tries in 111 games across four years, including 15 in 23 during the most recent 2025 season.<\/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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AN74tIPzyp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube channel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Eagles sign Kieran Gill from Super League side Bradford Bulls<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield had little time to build a squad under Craig Lingard ahead of the 2025 season with the former Castleford coach only arriving late in the off-season, however, they\u2019ve rectified that this year by going early and going aggressive in the market.<\/p>\n<p>Gill is the seventh signing and perhaps the most exciting given the sheer number of tries he has scored, 146 in 188 career games and the 29-year-old has now penned a two-year deal with the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield will become his sixth side after Oldham, Oxford, Castleford, Newcastle and Bradford and he\u2019s now been described by new head coach Craig Lingard as a \u2018try-scoring machine\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lingard said: \u201cGilly has been a top-end Championship player for most of his career, a try-scoring machine and hopefully he can continue to score tries here at Sheffield next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s really a nice and genuine bloke to have around, everyone speaks highly of him and for us to get someone of his ability is a good coup for us. Hopefully it shows what we\u2019re about and what we want to do this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udef5 \ud835\ude54\ud835\ude4a\ud835\ude50 \ud835\ude46\ud835\ude49\ud835\ude4a\ud835\ude52 \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude43\ud835\ude40 \ud835\ude3f\ud835\ude4d\ud835\ude44\ud835\ude47\ud835\ude47<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0f Sheffield Eagles are thrilled to announce the signing of centre Kieran Gill from Bradford Bulls on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcd6 READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PCCCkBppib\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/PCCCkBppib<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneClub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#OneClub<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2I6SVmGdjW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2I6SVmGdjW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheffield Eagles (@SheffieldEagles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheffieldEagles\/status\/1980333723846373643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/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\/10\/srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the sides hoping to compete atop the Championship in 2026 have signed another player from Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-216768","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\/216768","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=216768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}