{"id":793326,"date":"2026-10-06T03:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793326\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:50:15","slug":"lachlan-walmsley-departing-wakefield-trinity-winger-hopeful-of-finding-new-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793326\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachlan Walmsley: Departing Wakefield Trinity winger &#8216;hopeful&#8217; of finding new team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Departing Wakefield Trinity winger Lachlan Walmsley is hopeful his starring role in their Grand Final win over Warrington Wolves can help him pick up a new team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trinity confirmed last month the 28-year-old Australia-born Scotland international would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c70le2j5dlko\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving at the end of his contract this winter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walmsley&#8217;s flick pass sent Cameron Scott over for Wakefield&#8217;s first try as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c39w4w7pzqv4o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed the Super League title for the first time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully there&#8217;s a few clubs out there that are interested,&#8221; he told BBC Radio Leeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whatever will be will be. If I had a good game and there&#8217;s clubs out there that want me but if not then it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll leave it in God&#8217;s hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Walmsley joined Trinity in the Championship for the 2024 season and scored 47 tries in 61 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His parents travelled over at short notice from Australia for the showpiece and his father Simon said he had &#8220;tears in his eyes&#8221; after his son&#8217;s assist for Trinity&#8217;s first score, while his mother Jane called it &#8220;unique&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These are my two biggest supporters right here, I&#8217;m so grateful,&#8221; the former Whitehaven and Halifax man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The love and support they have shown me over my whole career &#8211; to have them come across and be there just to support me, I can&#8217;t think of anything better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be here without them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departing Wakefield Trinity winger Lachlan Walmsley is hopeful his starring role in their Grand Final win over Warrington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793326","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\/793326","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=793326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}