{"id":182445,"date":"2025-10-01T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:51:44","slug":"tigers-confirm-six-player-departures-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182445\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers confirm SIX player departures – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wests Tigers<\/a> have confirmed their list of player departures at the end of the 2025 season will total six, leaving none off-contract heading into next year.<\/p>\n

Solomona Faataape<\/a> and Charlie Staines<\/a> (both Catalans Dragons<\/a>) were already locked in to leave the joint-venture at the end of 2025, while Tallyn Da Silva<\/a> (Parramatta Eels<\/a>) and Lachlan Galvin<\/a> (Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>) both left in the middle of the season and were not included on the six-player list.<\/p>\n

The four new names to be confirmed as departures from the Tigers are Brent Naden<\/a>, Justin Matamua<\/a>, Josh Feledy<\/a> and Brandon Tumeth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naden may come as the biggest shock, with reports throughout the year that he was set to re-sign on a new contract with the outfit.<\/p>\n

That came after the club’s recruitment team and coaching staff changed their mind over his future, having previously indicated he would not be retained.<\/p>\n

That is now the case, and the outside back will be searching for a new club.<\/p>\n

Justin Matamua<\/a> is the other name on the list with more than single-digit first-grade experience, with the young forward impressing, but falling down the pecking order at Concord in 2025.<\/p>\n

He has played 14 NRL<\/a> games, but didn’t take to the park at the top level in 2025.<\/p>\n

Josh Feledy<\/a> and Brandon Tumeth<\/a> had both worked their way through the club’s pathways, but failed to crack anything approaching regular first-grade.<\/p>\n

Tumeth, a 22-year-old second-rower, made his NRL<\/a> debut in 2023 but failed to add another game, while Feledy also debuted in 2023, added another two games in 2024, and then failed to play first-grade in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Tigers already have a full squad of 30 for 2026<\/a> following the recent additions of Javon Andrews<\/a>, Ethan Roberts<\/a> and Mavrik Geyer<\/a>, with the club also welcoming Jock Madden<\/a> and Kai Pearce-Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They will likely have a solitary spot opened up if Jayden Sullivan<\/a> remains with the South Sydney Rabbitohs<\/a> into 2026 after playing there on loan in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wests Tigers have confirmed their list of player departures at the end of the 2025 season will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-182445","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\/182445","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=182445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}