\n Percival’s current contract expires at the end of 2026 but he will be looking to secure a new deal.\n<\/p>\n
\n The long-serving Widnesian has missed the start of the year with a knee injury, with Harry Robertson and new recruit Nene Macdonald taking the centre berths.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Rowley, speaking after Saints\u2019 98-2 win in Cumbria against Workington, said he is looking forward to working with all three of his top quality centres.\n<\/p>\n
\n Rowley said: \u201cFor me it is simple \u2013 I am coming in and I have got at least three good centres this year and I am looking forward to working with Nene, Percy and Harry.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat is as clear as it is for me and that is how it needs to be for Saints fans too, which is the most important.\n<\/p>\n
\n When asked if Mark Percival could be moving on this year Rowley replied: \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Although Saints won the game comfortably and rattled in 17 tries against the Championship outfit, they lost skipper Matty Lees with a knee injury early on in the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n Lees caught his knee in the tackle after a powerful surge to the line and gingerly limped off.\n<\/p>\n
\n Saints will not want to be without their skipper for next Friday\u2019s Super League opener at Warrington.\n<\/p>\n
\n On Lees Rowley said: \u201cWe are cautiously optimistic. He has just got a bit of a bang to his knee when he got stuck in the tackle.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAgain, we\u2019ll have little look at it tomorrow but hopefully he is ok.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Percival’s current contract expires at the end of 2026 but he will be looking to secure a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-414037","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\/414037","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=414037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}