{"id":566277,"date":"2025-11-12T21:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:44:27","slug":"castleford-hooker-aiden-doolan-joins-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566277\/","title":{"rendered":"Castleford: Hooker Aiden Doolan joins on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Castleford Tigers have signed hooker Aiden Doolan on a two-year contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old joins new head coach Ryan Carr&#8217;s Tigers squad for the 2026 season,  having most recently had a spell with Championship side Barrow Raiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Englishman came through the academy before spending a year in Australia with South Sydney Rabbitohs on a trial and train contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m over the moon to have got the deal sorted,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/castlefordtigers.com\/article\/85\/tigers-sign-aiden-doolan-on-a-two-year-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the club&#8217;s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge opportunity for me to really kick on and develop as a player, with good players and coaching staff around me.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Castleford Tigers have signed hooker Aiden Doolan on a two-year contract. The 22-year-old joins new head coach Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-566277","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566277","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=566277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}