{"id":20795,"date":"2025-10-08T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rob-du-preez-sale-sharks-back-to-leave-club-at-the-end-of-the-season\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:03:14","slug":"rob-du-preez-sale-sharks-back-to-leave-club-at-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/rob-du-preez-sale-sharks-back-to-leave-club-at-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob du Preez: Sale Sharks back to leave club at the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sale Sharks back Rob du Preez will leave the club at the end of the 2025-26 campaign to &#8220;pursue an opportunity abroad&#8221;, the club have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old South African plays at fly-half or centre and has made more than 160 appearances for the Sharks since signing initially on loan in 2018, before making the move permanent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He holds the record for the most consecutive starts in Prem matches, with 76.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Du Preez, who is out of contract at the end of the campaign, said the decision to leave had been a &#8220;really difficult&#8221; one to make.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c80gzr3rypro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale Sharks back Rob du Preez will leave the club at the end of the 2025-26 campaign to &#8220;pursue an opportunity abroad&#8221;, the club have said. The 32-year-old South African plays at fly-half or centre and has made more than 160 appearances for the Sharks since signing initially on loan in 2018, before making the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20797,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions\/20797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}