{"id":346859,"date":"2026-01-01T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T19:19:11","slug":"ulster-scrum-half-resists-english-interest-to-sign-new-contract-with-northern-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346859\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster scrum-half resists English interest to sign new contract with northern province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ulster scrum-half Nathan Doak\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nathan_Doak (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ulster scrum-half Nathan Doak<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Scrum-half Nathan Doak says he believes Ulster can reach greater heights after resisting the lures of England and agreeing a new two-year deal with his home province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 24-year-old was believed to be on the radar of Sale Sharks as a potential replacement for Raffi Quirke, however the former Ireland Under-20s star has turned down the option of moving to the PREM and extended his stay at Ravenhill until the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ulster scrum-half Nathan Doak Scrum-half Nathan Doak says he believes Ulster can reach greater heights after resisting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48325,5903,101,56,41315,54,16296,55],"class_list":["post-346859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-adam-mckendry","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-ulster-rugby","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-rugby-championship","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346859","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=346859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}