{"id":224057,"date":"2025-10-25T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:58:12","slug":"liam-horne-leigh-leopards-sign-castleford-tigers-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224057\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Horne: Leigh Leopards sign Castleford Tigers forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leigh Leopards have signed Papua New Guinea forward Liam Horne following his release by Castleford Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/crgg7wknrlno\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a Castleford contract<\/a> until the end of next season, has joined Leigh on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The West Yorkshire club said in a statement that Horne &#8220;has been released from the final year of his contract to pursue playing opportunities elsewhere&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will join fellow PNG internationals Edwin Ipape, Lachlan Lam and Jacob Alick-Wienke at his new club, and is set to play alongside them for his country against the Cook Islands on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards have signed Papua New Guinea forward Liam Horne following his release by Castleford Tigers. The 27-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224057","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\/224057","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=224057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}