{"id":259205,"date":"2025-11-12T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259205\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:12:09","slug":"castleford-hooker-aiden-doolan-joins-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259205\/","title":{"rendered":"Castleford: Hooker Aiden Doolan joins on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castleford Tigers have signed hooker Aiden Doolan on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old joins new head coach Ryan Carr&#8217;s Tigers squad for the 2026 season,  having most recently had a spell with Championship side Barrow Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Englishman came through the academy before spending a year in Australia with South Sydney Rabbitohs on a trial and train contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m over the moon to have got the deal sorted,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/castlefordtigers.com\/article\/85\/tigers-sign-aiden-doolan-on-a-two-year-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club&#8217;s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge opportunity for me to really kick on and develop as a player, with good players and coaching staff around me.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers have signed hooker Aiden Doolan on a two-year contract. The 22-year-old joins new head coach Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-259205","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\/259205","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=259205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}