Scotland back-row Liam McConnell has been rewarded for his “exceptional” form with a new two-year contract at Edinburgh.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Edinburgh academy graduate has impressed this season and made his Scotland debut in the win over the USA last month.<\/p>\n
“Liam’s form at the start of this season has been nothing short of exceptional,” said Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt.<\/p>\n
“He has played with a maturity well beyond his years. He has a very special future ahead of him, both for Edinburgh and for Scotland. He is exactly the type of player we want in our squad.<\/p>\n
“A local lad who understands what this club means and has the drive to become a legend here.”<\/p>\n
McConnell is “incredibly proud” to extend his stay at his hometown club until June 2028.<\/p>\n
“It was always the dream. There is something incredibly special about pulling on this jersey – you aren’t just playing for a club, you’re representing your home,” he added.<\/p>\n
“To be part of this young crop of Scottish players coming through together is brilliant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland back-row Liam McConnell has been rewarded for his “exceptional” form with a new two-year contract at Edinburgh.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115741101425614734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640402","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=640402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}