{"id":246340,"date":"2025-11-06T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246340\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:01:08","slug":"bradford-bulls-waqa-blake-signs-new-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246340\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls: Waqa Blake signs new two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradford Bulls centre Waqa Blake has signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old joined the Bulls on a two-year deal prior to the start of the 2025 campaign and made 31 appearances in all competitions, scoring 14 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blake previously played for Penrith Panthers, Paramatta Eels and St Helens before making the move to West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I came on board and Waqa had already signed it was something I was really excited about, he is someone I am really looking forward to working with,&#8221; Bulls head coach Kurt Haggerty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradfordbulls.co.uk\/article\/3371\/blake-pens-new-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls centre Waqa Blake has signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-246340","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\/246340","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=246340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}