{"id":434896,"date":"2026-02-19T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:29:07","slug":"jack-bird-leeds-rhinos-bring-in-experienced-centre-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434896\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Bird: Leeds Rhinos bring in experienced centre on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds Rhinos have signed experienced Australian centre Jack Bird on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old was released from his contract with NRL side Wests Tigers earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bird has also played for Cronulla Sharks, Brisbane Broncos and St George Illawarra Dragons in the Australian top tier as well as representing New South Wales in the State of Origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bird, who can also play in the halves and back row, will be available for the Rhinos for the home game against Castleford on Sunday, 8 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jack brings toughness, professionalism and a high level of football intelligence,&#8221; head coach Brad Arthur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therhinos.co.uk\/article\/22916\/rhinos-swoop-for-experienced-bird-to-bolster-squad\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s competed at the top level and understands what it takes to prepare and perform week in, week out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds Rhinos have signed experienced Australian centre Jack Bird on a two-year deal. The 30-year-old was released from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434896","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\/434896","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=434896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}