{"id":6706,"date":"2026-01-23T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:16:52","slug":"joe-owen-versatile-forward-agrees-new-contract-with-bristol-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6706","title":{"rendered":"Joe Owen: Versatile forward agrees new contract with Bristol Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Forward Joe Owen has signed a new long-term contract with Bristol Bears to stay with the Prem club beyond this season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old has played 51 games for Bristol since signing in 2022 from National Two West side Clifton in the fourth tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owen, who can play in the second or back row, also made his debut for England A last November, coming on from the bench as they beat Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director of rugby at Bristol Pat Lam said he believes Owen has the potential to continue developing &#8220;towards international honours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a great example that you don&#8217;t have to come through a traditional academy pathway to achieve your rugby ambitions,&#8221; director of Bristol Pat Lam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Joe has worked incredibly hard on every aspect of his game &#8211; developing physically and mentally, while significantly improving his skillset and understanding of what it takes to perform at the highest level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward Joe Owen has signed a new long-term contract with Bristol Bears to stay with the Prem club beyond this season. The 24-year-old has played 51 games for Bristol since signing in 2022 from National Two West side Clifton in the fourth tier. Owen, who can play in the second or back row, also made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}