{"id":241749,"date":"2025-11-03T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241749\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:49:12","slug":"jake-burns-st-helens-hooker-signs-new-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241749\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Burns: St Helens hooker signs new two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens hooker Jake Burns has signed a two-year contract extension to keep him with the Super League club until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old joined them in early 2022, having signed on an initial three-month trial, and went on to remain with the club for that season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then he has spent time on loan with North Wales Crusaders and Swinton Lions and has also made 19 first team Saints appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My goal is just to play as many games as possible and build on my experience. I want to get consistent game time and keep improving,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintsrlfc.com\/2025\/11\/03\/jake-burns-signs-two-year-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I definitely think we can build on this year, too. We reached the semi-final, but I know the team we&#8217;ve got can go even further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burns made his first team Super League debut for Saints against Castleford Tigers in 2024 and scored his first tries in his second appearance, away at Hull FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2025 he made 10 appearances for St Helens, all but one of which came off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m thankful for every opportunity I get to play for St.Helens,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully, I can keep building on the past two years and do well for the club in the next two.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens hooker Jake Burns has signed a two-year contract extension to keep him with the Super League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-241749","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\/241749","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=241749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}