{"id":782094,"date":"2026-09-25T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782094\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:08:08","slug":"sean-osullivan-st-helens-sign-canterbury-bankstown-bulldogs-half-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782094\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean O&#8217;Sullivan: St Helens sign Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs half-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens have signed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs half-back Sean O&#8217;Sullivan for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Rugby League side have released the 28-year-old from the final year of his contract to allow him to make the move to Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Sullivan has also had spells with hometown club Sydney Roosters, Brisbane Broncos, New Zealand Warriors, Penrith Panthers and Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the second player to sign for Saints, who missed out on a place in the Super League play-offs for the first time this season, since fellow Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cvgx0x2zy5xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Walters was announced as their new head coach<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve bumped into Kevvie over in Australia, and once he was announced as the coach, it showed the ambitions of the club,&#8221; O&#8217;Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintsrlfc.com\/2026\/09\/25\/sean-osullivan-is-a-saint\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All my talks with him have been super positive, and I know that he and I are going to get on really well, which is a big part of me wanting to come to St Helens, because I think he can help my footy a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens have signed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs half-back Sean O&#8217;Sullivan for the 2027 season. The National Rugby League side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782094","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\/782094","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=782094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}