{"id":158324,"date":"2025-06-04T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158324\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:50:10","slug":"oliver-holmes-hull-fc-back-rower-retires-at-32-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158324\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Holmes: Hull FC back-rower retires at 32 with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hull FC back-rower Oliver Holmes has been forced to retire at the age of 32 because of a knee injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holmes joined the Black and Whites on a two-year deal for the 2025 season but his sole appearance for the club came in the Challenge Cup win over York Acorn in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Castleford Tigers and Warrington man won one cap for England in 2018 and lifted the Challenge Cup with Leigh in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Calling it a day has been one of the hardest decisions I&#8217;ve made throughout my career. The head still wanted to go, but unfortunately the body was saying no,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hullfc.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/04\/holmes-announces-retirement-from-rugby-league\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I gave myself every chance to get back playing again, but unfortunately that just didn&#8217;t happen and that&#8217;s the way it is in sport sometimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve tried different injections and I&#8217;ve been for surgery, but things just haven&#8217;t worked out how I wanted them to on the medical side of things and now&#8217;s the time to call it a day sadly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull FC back-rower Oliver Holmes has been forced to retire at the age of 32 because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-158324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626836741458560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}