{"id":50350,"date":"2025-08-07T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:04:10","slug":"hull-fc-matty-laidlaw-one-of-three-young-players-to-get-new-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50350\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull FC: Matty Laidlaw one of three young players to get new deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hull FC prop Matty Laidlaw has signed a one-year contract extension to stay until the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laidlaw, 21, has played 31 times for the club since his debut in 2022, including nine in the Super League this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two other youngsters have also agreed new two-year deals &#8211; forward Will Kirby and winger Joe Ward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirby, 19, has played three Super League games this year, while Ward, also 19, made his senior debut in the Challenge Cup in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All three players have applied themselves really well both on and off the field, and we&#8217;re really pleased to maintain that strong core of homegrown academy products within our squad as we move forward,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hullfc.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/young-trio-sign-extensions-2\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said, external<\/a> Hull&#8217;s director of rugby Gareth Ellis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull FC prop Matty Laidlaw has signed a one-year contract extension to stay until the end of next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-50350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50350","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=50350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}