{"id":283480,"date":"2025-11-26T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283480\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:09:11","slug":"york-knights-ben-jones-bishop-paul-mcshane-jordan-thompson-sign-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283480\/","title":{"rendered":"York Knights: Ben Jones-Bishop, Paul McShane &#038; Jordan Thompson sign new deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul McShane, Jordan Thompson and Ben Jones-Bishop have all signed new deals with Super League newcomers York Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Leeds winger Jones-Bishop scored 29 tries in 2025 and was the Championship&#8217;s leading try-scorer, while ex-Castleford and England hooker McShane &#8211; Super League&#8217;s Man of Steel in 2020 &#8211; was named Championship player of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thompson will spend a fifth season with the Knights, having been named the club&#8217;s players&#8217; player of the year in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three have significant previous experience in Super League and will appear in the top flight again next year after York were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cly24zvxw3no\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selected to join Super League<\/a> by an independent panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McShane, Jordan Thompson and Ben Jones-Bishop have all signed new deals with Super League newcomers York Knights.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283480","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\/283480","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=283480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}