{"id":358501,"date":"2026-01-08T06:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358501\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:55:19","slug":"york-knights-experienced-prop-mitch-clark-signs-contract-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358501\/","title":{"rendered":"York Knights: Experienced prop Mitch Clark signs contract for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">York Knights have agreed a full-time contract for 2026 with prop Mitch Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old joined York in March from Sheffield Eagles, going on to make 15 appearances as they finished top of the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now Clark, who has played for New Zealand Maori, will be part of the Knights squad as they prepare for their first ever campaign in Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved my first year at the club,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkrlfc.com\/post\/clark-agrees-new-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 great group of lads and staff and with a full pre-season under my belt working with Mark Applegarth and the coaching team, I&#8217;m looking forward to getting to work, giving it my all, and building on what we achieved last season.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"York Knights have agreed a full-time contract for 2026 with prop Mitch Clark. The 32-year-old joined York in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-358501","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\/358501","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=358501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}