{"id":345583,"date":"2026-01-01T01:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:13:09","slug":"josh-kemeny-northampton-saints-flanker-signs-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345583\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Kemeny: Northampton Saints flanker signs new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton Saints flanker Josh Kemeny has signed a new contract at Franklin&#8217;s Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/68317379\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined Saints in 2024<\/a> from Super Rugby side Melbourne Rebels, scoring six tries in 21 appearances for the Prem club in his debut season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel like I am just getting started here at Saints,&#8221; Kemeny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptonsaints.co.uk\/news\/josh-kemeny-signs-new-contract-northampton-saints\" 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 feel like I have improved as a player since being here and I have been a part of some incredibly exciting fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a clear goal to win silverware in Europe and in the Prem. The boys are ambitious; ambitious to win, and ambitious to raise a trophy again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Australian has scored a try in both of his previous two games for Saints, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c30j123e6v7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one against Pretoria Bulls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c623ky53lr5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another against Sale Sharks,<\/a> but missed the start of the season due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/teams\/northampton\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top of the Prem standings,<\/a> leading second-placed Exeter by one point after eight games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northampton Saints flanker Josh Kemeny has signed a new contract at Franklin&#8217;s Gardens. The 27-year-old joined Saints in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-345583","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\/345583","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=345583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}