{"id":441978,"date":"2026-02-23T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441978\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:20:07","slug":"oldham-wing-matty-russell-exits-to-join-super-league-catalans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441978\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldham wing Matty Russell exits to join Super League Catalans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matty Russell has joined Catalans Dragons from Championship club Oldham for an undisclosed fee until the end of the season.<\/p>\n

The experienced Scotland winger will bolster the Super League club’s backline options as he returns to the top level after spending less than three months with the Roughyeds.<\/p>\n

Catalans will be Russell’s eighth Super League club after spending last season at Wakefield Trinity where he scored six tries in seven appearances in an injury-hit campaign.<\/p>\n

“I’m very excited to have signed for the Catalans Dragons for the upcoming season,” Russell told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’ve admired the club for a long time throughout my career and to have the opportunity to represent them now is something I’m really proud of.<\/p>\n

“The Dragons’ fast-paced, aggressive style of play suits me perfectly and I can’t wait to get involved and contribute.<\/p>\n

“I feel ready and motivated. I believe in my abilities and now it’s about letting my performances speak for themselves throughout the season.”<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old, who enjoyed his most prolific period at Toronto where he scored 38 tries in 40 games, passed the career century mark for Trinity last season.<\/p>\n

“I’m delighted to welcome Matty to our squad for the rest of the season,” said Catalans head coach Joel Tomkins.<\/p>\n

“He has proven himself in Super League and will bring great quality.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matty Russell has joined Catalans Dragons from Championship club Oldham for an undisclosed fee until the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-441978","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\/441978","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=441978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}