{"id":338260,"date":"2025-12-10T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338260\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:16:10","slug":"perth-bears-sign-penrith-panthers-2024-premiership-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338260\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Bears sign Penrith Panthers 2024 premiership winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Bears coach Mal Meninga on Wednesday labelled Henry \u201cone of the most exciting middle-forward prospects in the NRL\u201d, after his 50 games for the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about the opportunity to be a part of history and continue my career with the Perth Bears from 2027,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not every day you get the chance to be a part of a new team in a new city and it\u2019s that opportunity that excites me the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry\u2019s signing comes as Penrith again face a battle to hang onto their premiership-winning talent over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Smith, Scott Sorensen and Luke Garner are all off contract at the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Fa\u2019asuamaleaui\u2019s signing comes after the Bears have made no secret of their desire to lure his brother Tino west.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Titans skipper Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui is in demand.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ecfefbccea03fd1c733ab0e80da942889602fc8e.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Titans skipper Tino Fa\u2019asuamaleaui is in demand.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Coast captain has an option to leave the Titans at the end of next year, and is keen to see how the club looks under new coach Josh Hannay.<\/p>\n<p>Iszac Fa\u2019asuamaleaui himself finished at Gold Coast at the end of last season, before the forward moved to Catalans in the Super League for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Perth have missed out in the pursuit of two other Titans stars, with Jayden Campbell and Beau Fermor both opting to say on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The 18th franchise have signed Sexton, English centre Harry Newman, ex-Canterbury forward Luke Smith and Tanzanian-born Emarly Bitungane from the Super League.<\/p>\n<p>AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loading Bears coach Mal Meninga on Wednesday labelled Henry \u201cone of the most exciting middle-forward prospects in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-338260","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\/338260","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=338260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}