{"id":556873,"date":"2026-04-29T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:11:08","slug":"st-helens-hull-kr-hooker-bill-leyland-joins-for-second-loan-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556873\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens: Hull KR hooker Bill Leyland joins for second loan spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hull KR hooker Bill Leyland has joined St Helens on a short-term loan for the second time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leyland initially went to Saints last month for the Good Friday home derby clash with Wigan Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old played that one game and ended up being the match-winner as he scored two late tries &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c5y80129p91o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his first in Super League<\/a> &#8211; as St Helens beat their old rivals 34-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now after being involved in the Robins&#8217; last two league games, he is available to play for Saints again in their home game with York Knights on Friday (20:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull KR hooker Bill Leyland has joined St Helens on a short-term loan for the second time this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556873","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\/556873","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=556873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}