{"id":443327,"date":"2025-03-12T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=443327"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:11:42","slug":"proud-moment-as-icons-grandson-signs-with-roosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=443327","title":{"rendered":"'Proud' moment as icon's grandson signs with Roosters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The grandson of Arthur Beetson<\/a> has signed a three year deal with the Roosters<\/a> – the club where the popular Immortal shone as both captain and coach some 50 years ago.<\/p>\n

Billy Beetson is only 15 but has shown so much potential in the Roosters' junior league that the club has locked him in until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

Beetson is training with the Roosters' Harold Matts team – alongside players older than him – and is already holding his own.<\/p>\n

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"It's a proud day for our family," Billy's dad Mark Beetson told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

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"To say he is happy is an understatement and as for the family, we will support him until the end of the earth as he follows his dreams.<\/p>\n

"I know dad would have been especially proud to see his grandson wearing the Roosters colours."<\/p>\n

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Billy is a rising backrower.<\/p>\n

Regarded as the best forward in his era, Beetson hailed from Redcliffe and moved to Sydney in the 1960s, joining Balmain – but it was at the Tricolours where he came of age, captaining the club to consecutive grand final wins in 1974 and 1975.<\/p>\n

He then went on to coach the Roosters with considerable success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The grandson of Arthur Beetson has signed a three year deal with the Roosters – the club where the popular Immortal shone as both captain […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443331,"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\/443327"}],"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=443327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443334,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443327\/revisions\/443334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/443331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}