{"id":378252,"date":"2026-01-19T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378252\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:02:09","slug":"oliver-partington-wigan-warriors-sign-catalans-dragons-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378252\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Partington: Wigan Warriors sign Catalans Dragons forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wigan Warriors have re-signed prop forward Oliver Partington from Catalans Dragons, with Kruise Leeming making the opposite move on loan.<\/p>\n

Partington, who emerged through the Wigan ranks as a youngster, played 91 games for the club before joining Salford in 2023 and then Catalans from the middle of 2024.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old returns to the Warriors on a five-year contract and will join Matt Peet’s squad at their pre-season training camp in Tenerife next week.<\/p>\n

“I am absolutely buzzing to be coming back to Wigan,” said Partington. “I’m really looking forward to earning the respect of the group and the fans.<\/p>\n

“To play for Wigan Warriors was always my childhood dream and I’ve lived that dream once \u2013 I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to live that dream again.”<\/p>\n

Partington helped Wigan to win the League Leaders Shield in 2020, as well as featuring in their Grand Final defeat by St Helens the same season.<\/p>\n

Leeming, 30, who was part of the Warriors’ quadruple-winning side in 2024, moves to the Dragons on a one-year loan deal.<\/p>\n

“I believe we have the coaching staff and playing squad to achieve something really special,” Leeming said of his move to France., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’ll be doing everything I can to play my part, and I’m very excited that I will soon get to pull on the blood and gold shirt at Brutus and get stuck in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wigan Warriors have re-signed prop forward Oliver Partington from Catalans Dragons, with Kruise Leeming making the opposite move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-378252","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\/378252","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=378252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}