{"id":250061,"date":"2025-11-07T21:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250061\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:31:13","slug":"former-bradford-bulls-man-lands-new-club-following-odsal-exit-as-ex-castleford-tigers-man-re-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/250061\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bradford Bulls man lands new club following Odsal exit as ex-Castleford Tigers man re-signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/JC_250822_046.jpg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bradford Bulls\" 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>Bradford Bulls full-back Tom Holmes was one of seven players to leave Odsal this off-season, and has now landed a new club ahead of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league\/castleford-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castleford Tigers<\/a> playmaker, who returned to the sport in the summer of 2024, after overcoming a rare form of skin cancer, has spent the past three seasons at the West Yorkshire outfit, making 68 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old, who also had spells at Huddersfield Giants and Featherstone Rovers among others, <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\">left the club upon the expiry of his contract<\/a>, but was immediately picked up by another Championship side, who themselves have already made some bright additions to their squad for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Doncaster RLFC will be where Holmes plies his trade for the next two seasons, and will join new recruits Muizz Mustapha, Cory Aston and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/championship-club-land-prolific-overseas-hooker-in-major-2026-boost-110038\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Jones<\/a> in forming part of Richard Horne\u2019s squad next year.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the move, Holmes said he will be \u201cproud\u201d to represent his new club, as he begins the next chapter of his career.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI\u2019m excited for the next two years to be at Doncaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully myself and the other signings can add to the existing group. It\u2019s a great group that the club has got the minute but hopefully together we can help push that one step further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be proud to wear the Doncaster shirt, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Castleford Tigers prop re-signs with club as former Bradford Bulls man joins<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the news of Holmes\u2019 signature this week, Doncaster also announced that one of their forward pack has agreed new terms with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Castleford man Tyla Hepi, who also has Super League experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriousaboutrl.com\/rugby-league\/hull-kr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hull KR<\/a>, will stay with the club for another two seasons, taking him into a third and fourth season under former Hull FC man Horne.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has made 27 appearances for the club so far, and will look to continue providing experience and strength to the Dons pack.<\/p>\n<p>On the new contract, coach Horne had nothing but praise to say about his prop forward.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe\u2019re really pleased to keep hold of Tyla. He\u2019s shown a strong desire to stick with us and help to achieve the goals that we have over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the sort of character that you need in a changing room and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll continue to make a big impact.\u201d<\/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\/@SeriousAboutRL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube channel here<\/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\/1761234489_461_srl-logo.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls full-back Tom Holmes was one of seven players to leave Odsal this off-season, and has now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-250061","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\/250061","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=250061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}