{"id":33788,"date":"2026-08-18T04:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/oscar-usher-newcastle-red-bulls-lock-signs-new-three-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T04:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:28:20","slug":"oscar-usher-newcastle-red-bulls-lock-signs-new-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/oscar-usher-newcastle-red-bulls-lock-signs-new-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Usher: Newcastle Red Bulls lock signs new three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Newcastle Red Bulls lock Oscar Usher has signed a new three-year deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old won the club&#8217;s young player of the year award last season in his first full year as a professional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Creating opportunities for young local players is a massive part of what Newcastle Red Bulls are about, and Oscar has seized his chance by showing a tremendous work ethic and desire to improve,&#8221; head coach Dan McFarland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcastleredbulls.com\/en\/articles\/oscar-usher-signs-new-three-year-deal\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Oscar is a great example of a player stepping up and taking his opportunity, and I am very much looking forward to working with him over the next few seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ckg3vrm15rno?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Red Bulls lock Oscar Usher has signed a new three-year deal. The 22-year-old won the club&#8217;s young player of the year award last season in his first full year as a professional. &#8220;Creating opportunities for young local players is a massive part of what Newcastle Red Bulls are about, and Oscar has seized his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33788","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\/33788","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=33788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33790,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33788\/revisions\/33790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}