{"id":551929,"date":"2025-11-06T02:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551929\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T02:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:11:11","slug":"bradford-bulls-waqa-blake-signs-new-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/551929\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls: Waqa Blake signs new two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bradford Bulls centre Waqa Blake has signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until the 2027 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old joined the Bulls on a two-year deal prior to the start of the 2025 campaign and made 31 appearances in all competitions, scoring 14 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blake previously played for Penrith Panthers, Paramatta Eels and St Helens before making the move to West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I came on board and Waqa had already signed it was something I was really excited about, he is someone I am really looking forward to working with,&#8221; Bulls head coach Kurt Haggerty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradfordbulls.co.uk\/article\/3371\/blake-pens-new-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford Bulls centre Waqa Blake has signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-551929","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\/115500330881000451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551929","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=551929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}