{"id":144006,"date":"2021-10-14T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=144006"},"modified":"2021-10-14T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T07:58:13","slug":"tigers-to-pounce-on-disgruntled-raiders-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=144006","title":{"rendered":"Tigers to pounce on disgruntled Raiders star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/wests-tigers\" title=\"Wests Tigers\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wests Tigers<\/a> are on the verge of signing star English hooker Josh Hodgson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/free-to-leave-wests-tigers-offer-raiders-star-josh-hodgson-two-year-deal-20211014-p59041.html\" title=\"according to the Sydney Morning Herald\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgson has a year to run on his deal with Canberra, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/canberra-raiders\" title=\"Raiders \" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raiders <\/a>are reportedly prepared to let him leave immediately, although would also let him stay in the nation&#x27;s capital to see out his contract if need be.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgson&#x27;s 2022 contract is said to be worth $900,000, and the Raiders would need to tip in part of that even if he played for the Tigers next year.<\/p>\n<p>He will be 32 by the time next season begins but is considered one of the best hookers in the NRL still. It was only a couple of years ago he was considered the second best in the game, behind Cameron Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgson endured a rough 2021 at Canberra, relinquishing the captaincy mid-season following a confrontation with coach Ricky Stuart.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6277032244001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/10\/386616\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Legends\u00a0pay\u00a0tribute\u00a0to\u00a0Immortal\u00a0Norm\u00a0Provan\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckuqj4tah00050jpfiftdcntm\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fellow Englishmen, George Williams and John Bateman, also left the club in acrimonious circumstances in the space of a few months.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos had been keen to sign the experienced rake but it appears the Tigers will not benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers had a horror 2021 season, which <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/michael-maguire-wests-tigers-statement-coaching-role-confirmed-for-2022\/ce40579b-8dc3-46d7-8c5e-f4bb9e1e0d07\" title=\"almost cost coach Michael Maguire his job\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost cost coach Michael Maguire his job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire was spared the axe, and this week they announced their first significant signing with <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/tyrone-peachey-signs-with-wests-tigers-after-leaving-gold-coast-titans\/fabd5508-8208-4c72-98f7-b79e11c8ff62\" title=\"Tyrone Peachey to come on board\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyrone Peachey to come on board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Wests Tigers are on the verge of signing star English hooker Josh Hodgson, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Hodgson has a year to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=144006\" title=\"Tigers to pounce on disgruntled Raiders star\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144008,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144006\/revisions\/144008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}