{"id":383778,"date":"2026-01-22T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383778\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:00:11","slug":"lewis-dodd-ex-st-helens-scrum-half-extends-catalans-deal-by-another-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/383778\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Dodd: Ex-St Helens scrum-half extends Catalans deal by another year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former St Helens scrum-half Lewis Dodd has signed a contract extension with Catalans Dragons before playing a game for the French club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dodd initially joined the Perpignan-based outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cr4qve1rx6ro\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on a one-year deal<\/a> for the 2026 Super League season, but he will now remain in France for the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old left Saints at the end of 2024 to head to South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL on a three-year-deal but only made six appearances before being released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Saints, Dodd won three Super League titles, the Challenge Cup and he kicked the winning drop goal in the 2023 World Club Challenge success over Penrith Panthers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am delighted to extend Lewis for an extra year,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalansdragons.com\/en\/articles-9\/307-13135-lewis-dodd-signs-contract-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> Dragons head coach Joel Tomkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has settled in really well in France and is already a very well-liked member of the squad. This signing gives us some consistency in an important position for the next couple of seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former St Helens scrum-half Lewis Dodd has signed a contract extension with Catalans Dragons before playing a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383778","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\/383778","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=383778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}