{"id":232521,"date":"2025-10-29T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:33:10","slug":"st-helens-curtis-sironen-signs-new-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232521\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens: Curtis Sironen signs new two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian Curtis Sironen wants to help St Helens back to the top after agreeing a new two-year deal with the Super League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sironen, 32, joined Saints in 2022 from Manly Sea Eagles and his new contract will take him until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The back-rower helped Saints secure a fourth successive Super League title by winning the 2022 Grand Final and was also key in their historic 2023 World Club Challenge victory over Penrith Panthers in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Being a Saint reignited my love for rugby league again. Being here, I&#8217;ve met great people, made lifelong friends and even started my family,&#8221; he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintsrlfc.com\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m over the moon to still be part of this great club. We want to get back to winning ways. I also want to help the younger boys coming through and leave my mark on my career here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sironen is closing in on a century of Saints appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to get to 100 games for the club as soon as I can,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Hopefully, a strong pre-season will set me up for it and I can hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to build on last year and find ways to keep getting better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Curtis Sironen wants to help St Helens back to the top after agreeing a new two-year deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-232521","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\/232521","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=232521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}