{"id":435681,"date":"2026-02-20T07:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435681\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:16:14","slug":"ashton-golding-castleford-tigers-sign-experienced-full-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435681\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Golding: Castleford Tigers sign experienced full-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castleford Tigers have signed experienced full-back Ashton Golding on a deal until the end of the Super League season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old Jamaica international left Huddersfield Giants at the end of last season after five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cas confirmed on Tuesday that Australian full-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c9v0yxl2mk8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Taaffe had been ruled out for the year<\/a> with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament suffered in Sunday&#8217;s Super League opener against Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to get Ashton over the line for the 2026 season,&#8221; director of rugby Chris Chester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefordtigers.com\/article\/182\/tigers-sign-ashton-golding\" 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;Ashton can cover many positions across the back line and in and around the middle of the field playing nine and thirteen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has worked with [head coach] Ryan [Carr] before at Featherstone and the one thing we know he will bring to the club is a real competitive edge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers have signed experienced full-back Ashton Golding on a deal until the end of the Super League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435681","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\/435681","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=435681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}