{"id":381379,"date":"2026-01-21T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:55:10","slug":"george-flanagan-huddersfield-giants-full-back-signs-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381379\/","title":{"rendered":"George Flanagan: Huddersfield Giants full-back signs new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield Giants full-back George Flanagan has signed a new deal to remain with the Super League side until the end of the 2029 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old made his breakthrough in 2025, making 25 appearances and scoring 10 tries for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cy4vvk9xj8lo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously committed to the club until 2027<\/a> following an impressive start, he has now extended his contract for a further two seasons ahead of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m over the moon to re-sign again. I&#8217;m glad to get it over the line now and focus on what could be a big year for the Giants,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giantsrl.com\/article\/9685\/flanagan-commits-to-giants-unleashed\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been focusing on getting more physicality. I want to kick on and be better than I was last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Huddersfield will begin their season by facing either Stanningley or Hunslet in the Challenge Cup on 6 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will kick off their 2026 Super League campaign a week later, away at Catalans Dragons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Giants full-back George Flanagan has signed a new deal to remain with the Super League side until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381379","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\/381379","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=381379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}