{"id":496624,"date":"2026-03-26T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:43:11","slug":"leigh-leopards-owen-trout-to-join-nrls-cronulla-sharks-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496624\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards: Owen Trout to join NRL&#8217;s Cronulla Sharks in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leigh Leopards forward Owen Trout will join National Rugby League side Cronulla Sharks for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England international, who won his first cap against Australia in last year&#8217;s Ashes series, has agreed a two-year deal with the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move will bring to an end the 26-year-old&#8217;s three-season stint with Leopards, having signed for them in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Owen&#8217;s style of play is well suited for success in the NRL,&#8221; Sharks&#8217; general manager Darren Mooney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharks.com.au\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/sharks-reel-in-trout-as-englishman-signs-two-year-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards forward Owen Trout will join National Rugby League side Cronulla Sharks for the 2027 season. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496624","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\/496624","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=496624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}