{"id":816130,"date":"2026-10-28T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816130\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:50:10","slug":"nene-macdonald-st-helens-release-centre-by-mutual-consent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816130\/","title":{"rendered":"Nene MacDonald: St Helens release centre by mutual consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens have terminated the contract of centre Nene MacDonald by mutual consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old Papua New Guinea international joined Saints on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cn7ke3xzdk2o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a two-year deal last December<\/a> to link up with his former Salford coach Paul Rowley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, injuries restricted him to 13 appearances as the side failed to finish in the Super League play-offs for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MacDonald played in the NRL for Sydney Roosters, Gold Coast Titans, St George Illawarra Dragons, North Queensland Cowboys and Cronulla Sharks and has also had spells in England with Leigh and Leeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens have terminated the contract of centre Nene MacDonald by mutual consent. The 32-year-old Papua New Guinea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816130","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\/816130","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=816130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}