{"id":5862,"date":"2020-12-05T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T21:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2020-12-06T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T10:40:15","slug":"ex-bulldogs-halfback-headed-to-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5862","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bulldogs halfback headed to Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/canterbury-bulldogs\" title=\"Canterbury-Bankstown\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canterbury-Bankstown<\/a> playmaker Jack Cogger is set for a move to the Super League in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has agreed to join the Huddersfield Giants on a two-year-deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Wide World of Sports<\/em> can reveal the formalities of the deal were finalised over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s also understood the second year of the contract is an option in Cogger&#x27;s favour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ea1d1f16-1e53-4825-b18c-6495a4c76da3\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ea1d1f16-1e53-4825-b18c-6495a4c76da3\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former Australian Schoolboy began his professional career with Newcastle, where he debuted in 2016 before moving to the Bulldogs in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not re-signed by the Belmore based franchise and with limited opportunities in the NRL, Cogger leaves Australia with 42 top-flight games to his name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cogger joins former Knights Joe Wardle and James Gavet at the Giants, while gun playmaker Aidan Sezer is also at the club on a marquee deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Giants are building quite the team, having recently signed former State of Origin backrower Chris McQueen, while former Eels enforcer Kenny Edwards also joined the team in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Super League franchise are expected to confirm Cogger&#x27;s signing on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Canterbury-Bankstown playmaker Jack Cogger is set for a move to the Super League in 2021. The 23-year-old has agreed to join the Huddersfield Giants <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5862\" title=\"Ex-Bulldogs halfback headed to Super League\">[&#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\/5862"}],"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=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}