{"id":480371,"date":"2026-03-17T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480371\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:37:09","slug":"mikolaj-oledzki-leeds-rhinos-prop-to-move-to-perth-bears-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480371\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikolaj Oledzki: Leeds Rhinos prop to move to Perth Bears in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England and Leeds Rhinos prop Mikolaj Oledzki will leave the club at the end of this season to move to Perth Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oledzki has signed a three-year contract with the Australian team who will join the NRL in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old prop is the third Leeds player to make the same move following centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c23e0e9d7g5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Newman<\/a> and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/ckgj1y8lpdvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James McDonnell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oledzki, who made his debut for the Rhinos in 2017, has played 158 Super League games and won four England caps, including playing in two Ashes Tests against Australia last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Leeds Rhinos and rugby league was so important to me growing up and I owe so much to the club for enabling me to live out my dream,&#8221; Oledzki told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therhinos.co.uk\/article\/23050\/rhinos-confirm-oledzki-set-to-leave-at-end-of-2026-season\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This opportunity has come at the right time for me and my family to experience something completely new and was a chance that I could not turn down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England and Leeds Rhinos prop Mikolaj Oledzki will leave the club at the end of this season to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480371","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\/480371","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=480371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}