{"id":574187,"date":"2026-05-09T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:10:08","slug":"st-helens-winger-lewis-murphy-signs-new-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574187\/","title":{"rendered":"St Helens winger Lewis Murphy signs new three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens winger Lewis Murphy has signed a new three-year contract extension with the Super League club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old joined the Saints for the 2025 season on a two-year deal and has since made 18 appearances, scoring 11 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murphy started his career at Wakefield Trinity and a had spell in the National Rugby League in Australia with Sydney Roosters before returning to England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Murph is a fantastic lad, a real athlete, and a finisher &#8211; he can do things that other players can&#8217;t, so he is exactly what we want in the team,&#8221; Saints head coach Paul Rowley <a href=\"http:\/\/saintsrlfc.com\/2026\/05\/08\/saints-lock-in-lewis-murphy-with-extension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens winger Lewis Murphy has signed a new three-year contract extension with the Super League club. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574187","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\/574187","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=574187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}