{"id":447343,"date":"2026-02-26T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:27:08","slug":"urc-che-hope-signs-dragons-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447343\/","title":{"rendered":"URC: Che Hope signs Dragons contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dragons scrum-half Che Hope has signed a contract extension to stay at Rodney Parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old&#8217;s deal was due to expire in the summer and he has committed to at least another two years with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hope is having a strong season, with four tries in 10 appearances, and his exploits have put him on the radar of Wales head coach Steve Tandy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Che has got our attack flowing, particularly in the last block of games, and we&#8217;re excited to see that impact in the years to come,&#8221; said assistant coach Matt O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What is really pleasing is that Che still has a lot of growth in his game and we can now look forward to him to continuing to kick on with us in the seasons ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dragons scrum-half Che Hope has signed a contract extension to stay at Rodney Parade. The 23-year-old&#8217;s deal was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447343","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\/447343","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=447343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}