{"id":148787,"date":"2025-09-17T02:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:48:12","slug":"talty-grateful-for-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148787\/","title":{"rendered":"Talty “Grateful” For Two-Year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Ben Talty was playing in the New South Wales Cup just a few months ago, he was blissfully unaware of what lay ahead for the rest of his 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was happy with where I was, but I was always curious to know where I\u2019d end up,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old signed a train and trial contract with the Broncos in Round 15 and in a whirlwind three-weeks, made his NRL debut just a few rounds later against the Bulldogs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a rapid rise for the middle forward who once thought his dream of playing in the NRL was falling out of reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Talty is now nine games into his first-grade career and has been upgraded to a two-year contract extension with the top 30 squad, through to 2027.<\/p>\n

He said he was grateful for the opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cExtending my time here at the Broncos, it\u2019s awesome that I keep getting to live this feeling and something I won\u2019t take for granted,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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It\u2019s something I\u2019d never thought would happen, I just can\u2019t describe what it means to me.<\/p>\n


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Talty was a Knights junior and played more than 85 New South Wales Cup games for the Newcastle based side and the North-Sydney Bears.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was on the verge of first grade debuts, after playing several pre-season trial games with the Melbourne Storm but was never given the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Since his debut with the Broncos, Talty has scored three tries in nine games and has quickly become a consistent member of the Broncos forward pack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He averages 70 run metres per game and barely misses a tackle with a 92 per cent tackle efficiency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Talty said he\u2019s \u201clearned an awful lot\u201d but has more to give.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a variety of people to learn off like Payne [Haas] and Patty [Carrigan].\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just going to help me get better, being around those guys.<\/p>\n


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When you go and play at Suncorp Stadium and there\u2019s 40,000 people cheering you on, you never get sick of that feeling and it\u2019s something I want to keep doing.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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General Manager of Football Operations, Troy Thomson, said Talty has been a great addition to the squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the moment Talts got here, he worked hard for his opportunity and had a great attitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a smooth transition into first grade and has\u00a0grown a lot in a short amount of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has brought plenty of impact off the bench and we are confident he\u2019s only going to get better so it\u2019s great to lock him in for another two-seasons.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Ben Talty was playing in the New South Wales Cup just a few months ago, he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-148787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}