{"id":469601,"date":"2025-10-02T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:04:16","slug":"fitz-harding-bristol-bears-captain-signs-new-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469601\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitz Harding: Bristol Bears captain signs new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol Bears captain Fitz Harding has signed a new contract fresh off his 100th appearance for the club.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old back row has played half of those games as skipper since joining Bristol from the University of Durham in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harding scored the Bears&#8217; first try of the new Prem season as they beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c5y4p94p4qdo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leicester Tigers 42-24<\/a> at Ashton Gate on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an honour to represent Bristol Bears and to lead such a special group of players,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was an easy decision for me to re-sign with a club and city I love and have built a special connection with during my five years here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a proud club with some lofty ambitions, and I&#8217;ll be doing everything in my power to help us achieve them and, ultimately, bring some silverware to the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club did not specify the length of Harding&#8217;s new contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol are next in action against Saracens at StoneX Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Bears captain Fitz Harding has signed a new contract fresh off his 100th appearance for the club.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-469601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115307076981107651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469601","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=469601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}