{"id":338168,"date":"2025-12-09T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338168\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:23:15","slug":"oryn-keeley-signs-for-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338168\/","title":{"rendered":"Oryn Keeley signs for Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm is excited to announce the signing of Dolphins second-rower Oryn Keeley.<\/p>\n<p>Keeley, one of the most impressive young forwards in the NRL, will join the Club on a two-year deal from the start of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>A Central Coast junior, Keeley developed through the Newcastle Knights pathway after playing his early rugby league with the Northern Lakes Warriors and The Entrance Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>He progressed through Newcastle\u2019s Harold Matthews, SG Ball and Jersey Flegg teams before making his NRL debut for the Knights in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Keeley joined the Dolphins in 2024, where he continued his development and enjoyed a strong 2025 season, playing 16 NRL games, scoring four tries, and making 1,182 metres, 347 tackles and eight offloads.<\/p>\n<p>Storm Director of Football Frank Ponissi said the Club was thrilled to secure Keeley\u2019s signature for 2027 and 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOryn is a talented young player who has already made a strong impression at first-grade level, demonstrating both skill and hard work,\u201d Ponissi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe Oryn will thrive in our system and become an important member of our forward pack in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome Oryn and his family to Melbourne for the 2027 season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm is excited to announce the signing of Dolphins second-rower Oryn Keeley. Keeley, one of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-338168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338168","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=338168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}