CARR PENS SUPER LEAGUE CONTRACT

Young Centre Connor Carr has penned a professional two-year Betfred Super League deal with the Huddersfield Giants.

The Giants are excited to announce that academy product, 20-year-old, centre, Connor Carr has signed a 2-year Betfred Super League contract with the Huddersfield Giants starting for the 2024 season. 

Connor, who has come through the Giants pathway system, a system he started in when he was only 14, spent 2023 on-loan at League 1 Oldham, where he scored 14 tries in 31 appearances.

After a great season in Betfred League 1, Connor has been awarded a professional two-year super L ague deal, which also sees him combine his studies at Syngenta with playing the professional game.

Connor adds depth to the centre roles at the Giants, and will look to continue his fine form and break into the first team in 2024.

Speaking to Connor, he said:

"It's brilliant to be fair. I've been here for 6 years now and it's all I've been working towards for all them years, and it's just brilliant to get that hard work recognised and I'm really looking forward to what is to come in the next 2 years!"

At the Scholarship Launch earlier this week, Steve Fox broke the exciting news to the new scholars and paid tribute to Carr as an example of what can be achieved through hard work and desire: 

"I never had the chance to coach Connor at Scholarship but I did at the Academy level, he's an outstanding young man and he took a really tough pathway. Andy Kelly saw something in him and said, we can't release this lad, as it during a period where the RFL decided that U19s would become U18s. So we had to make a decision on him, and at the time he just wasn't ready for that level, but Andy Kelly wouldn't let him go. So we put him on a reserve contract, but we felt that he needed a challenge. So he's been out on loan at Oldham this year, where he has stuck at it, played really well and now achieved what he wanted to achieve!"

The club would like to put on record a huge thanks to Syngenta for allowing Connor to continue his studies while playing professionally, and to Rugby Manager Andy Kelly for facilitating this.