{"id":781568,"date":"2026-09-24T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781568\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:08:13","slug":"gareth-obrien-leigh-leopards-full-back-signs-one-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781568\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth O&#8217;Brien: Leigh Leopards full-back signs one-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leigh Leopards full-back Gareth O&#8217;Brien has signed a new contract to remain with the Super League club next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old started his career with hometown club Warrington and has also had spells with Salford, Toronto and Castleford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his time with Leigh, O&#8217;Brien won the 2023 Challenge Cup and has gone on to make 97 appearances in four seasons with the Leopards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanted to stay, whether that&#8217;s in a different sort of role again, similar to this year, I&#8217;m happy with that,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/leighleopards.co.uk\/gaz-obrien-extends-leigh-stay\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful to still be doing what I do at my age. I&#8217;ve just got to keep enjoying it while it lasts, and I&#8217;m already looking forward to next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leigh Leopards full-back Gareth O&#8217;Brien has signed a new contract to remain with the Super League club next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781568","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\/781568","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=781568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}