{"id":29165,"date":"2026-05-05T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sale-sharks-ben-bamber-signs-new-long-term-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:24:22","slug":"sale-sharks-ben-bamber-signs-new-long-term-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sale-sharks-ben-bamber-signs-new-long-term-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale Sharks: Ben Bamber signs new long-term contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sale Sharks lock Ben Bamber has extended his contract with the club until 2030.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 6ft 9in-tall Bamber, 25, has played 77 times for Sale since his debut in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I grew up around the corner and the club holds a really special place in my heart,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesharks.com\/2026\/05\/05\/bamber-signs-long-term-sharks-deal\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the club&#8217;s website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can see what&#8217;s building here and where the club wants to go. I know it&#8217;s not been the best season but everyone here wants to make this happen and I want to be a part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharks are seventh in The Prem with four matches to go this season, having lost 10 of their 14 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sale&#8217;s director of rugby Alex Sanderson added: &#8220;I love what Ben Bamber is all about and I love what he represents for this part of the world and how that represents the kind of club we want to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/clype9qknvvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale Sharks lock Ben Bamber has extended his contract with the club until 2030. The 6ft 9in-tall Bamber, 25, has played 77 times for Sale since his debut in 2022. &#8220;I grew up around the corner and the club holds a really special place in my heart,&#8221; he told the club&#8217;s website., external &#8220;You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29165","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\/29165","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=29165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29167,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29165\/revisions\/29167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}