{"id":527712,"date":"2026-04-13T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:30:10","slug":"bradford-bulls-let-ronan-michael-leave-for-shot-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/527712\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls let Ronan Michael leave for shot elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 25-year-old prop joined the Bulls prior to the start of the 2025 season from York.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While at the club, he made 30 appearances and scored two tries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keighleynews.co.uk\/sport\/25870537.bradford-bulls-loan-ronan-michael-keighley-cougars\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">He had already spent time away from Bulls this year, on loan at Keighley Cougars<\/a>, but this time, his departure from Odsal is a permanent one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Irishman told the club website: \u201cI\u2019d like to thank all the Bulls supporters for the support you\u2019ve shown me since day one, it\u2019s been massively appreciated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m grateful for the opportunity to represent the club and for the memories made along the way.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI wish my teammates, staff, fans and everyone connected with Bradford Bulls all the very best for the future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bulls CEO Jason Hirst said: \u201cAfter being an integral part of our 2025 Championship season, Ronan has found regular opportunities to play hard to come by since the start of the 2026 Super League season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAs a result, we have mutually agreed to release him from the final year of his contract to seek opportunities elsewhere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBoth personally and on behalf of our club, I would like to thank Ronan for his wholehearted contribution since joining the Bulls prior to the start of the 2025 season and wish him all the best moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old prop joined the Bulls prior to the start of the 2025 season from York. While at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-527712","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\/527712","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=527712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}