\n Having established himself as one of the country’s finest young talents in leading the club’s Academy side to Grand Final glory in 2025 before shining on the team’s post-season tour of Australia, the 17-year-old half-back was catching the eye of several NRL clubs.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, the club have confirmed that Irwin, who made three first-team appearances during last season, has now penned a five-year deal to keep him at the club until the end of 2030.\n<\/p>\n
\n Irwin showed glimpses of his prodigious talent in his first senior start at Hull KR in Round 27, setting up two second-half tries, and he has been given squad number 18 for 2026.\n<\/p>\n
\n Increased first-team involvement appears likely for the teenage talent, but the man himself is focused on improving.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m glad to have committed my future to the cub and I\u2019m really excited for the challenges ahead,” he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a competitive environment, and that\u2019s exactly where you want to be. Academy and reserves level is very strong, but this is a step up now into the first team and I\u2019m looking forward to what\u2019s next.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI want to take it game by game, put my best foot forward, and see where it takes me.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Head coach Sam Burgess added: \u201cI\u2019m really excited Ewan\u2019s committed his future to the club for the next five years.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He\u2019s shown great potential and leadership with the U18s and reserves last year. Hopefully he continues with his progression next season and beyond.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Above all else he\u2019s an outstanding young man with a bright future ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having established himself as one of the country’s finest young talents in leading the club’s Academy side to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-585803","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\/115590758706542971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585803","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=585803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}