{"id":773339,"date":"2026-09-17T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773339\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:30:09","slug":"billy-searle-leicester-tigers-fly-half-agrees-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773339\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Searle: Leicester Tigers fly-half agrees new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester Tigers and England A fly-half Billy Searle has signed a new contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old joined Leicester in 2025 from French club Agen and scored 217 points in 24 appearances in all competitions during his debut season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His form earned him a nomination for the Prem player of the season award in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Geoff Parling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestertigers.com\/news\/re-signings-2026-27-billy-searle\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website:, external<\/a> &#8220;Billy has produced performances of great attacking intent and game management, but what&#8217;s impressed me the most is the professionalism he&#8217;s shown and his intent to keep improving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Searle added: &#8220;I really enjoyed my first season here so it was an easy decision to extend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester have not confirmed the length of Searle&#8217;s new contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester Tigers and England A fly-half Billy Searle has signed a new contract with the club. The 30-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773339","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\/773339","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=773339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}