The Perth Bears are delighted to announce Tyran Wishart and Nick Meaney have agreed to join the club on long-term deals to start in 2027.<\/p>\n
Wishart has signed a five-year deal while Meaney has committed to the Bears for three years.<\/p>\n
Since making his debut in 2022, Tyran Wishart has played 84 First Grade games for the Melbourne Storm and represented the Australia Prime Minister\u2019s XIII in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old was awarded the Storm\u2019s Rookie of the Year in 2022 and has scored 21 tries across his career.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m really excited about the challenge of being a part of a new team and creating a legacy for the Perth Bears, as well as representing the past players and fans of the Bears and Reds franchises,\u201d Wishart said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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I see this is an opportunity to continue to evolve my game and be a part of something special for the NRL and sport in our country.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere is already so much buzz about the Perth Bears and I\u2019m excited to have the opportunity to be a part of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joining Wishart in Perth will be his Melbourne Storm teammate Nick Meaney.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since debuting for the Newcastle Knights in 2018, Meaney has scored 62 tries and kicked 351 goals in 159 First Grade games.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Lismore product provides the Bears with versatility in the backline having covered multiple positions across his seven-year NRL career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meaney said the opportunity to move his young family to Perth coupled with a desire to be a part of the Bears inaugural roster was too hard to ignore.<\/p>\n
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Nick Meaney’s 2025 try-scoring season<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Perth Bears provide a unique chance for my family and I to move to Western Australia and be a part of a new club that is essentially starting from scratch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic opportunity for me to help build the Bears but also set up my young family.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy focus is going one better with the Storm this year; but in 2027 I\u2019ll be ready to go for the Bears.”<\/p>\n
Perth Bears Head Coach Mal Meninga said he was delighted to have secured the signature of two of the NRL\u2019s most prized 2027 free agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTyran and Nick are exceptional players that will bring a wealth of experience and leadership to our club,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“I am absolutely thrilled to welcome them to the Perth Bears.<\/p>\n
\u201cTyran\u2019s energy and effort across all levels of his game make him a player that others want to play with.<\/p>\n
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Tyran Wishart Try<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is highly skilled, tough as nails and will set the standards for us both on and off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cNick provides us with creativity and spark in attack and is also an excellent defender.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can play multiple positions in the backline, is an exceptional goalkicker and like Tyran will be a leader at our club.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbove all, Tyran and Nick are exceptional people who will help us set the standards for Perth Bears for 2027 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meninga noted Wishart and Meaney will join Josh Curran, Liam Henry, Toby Sexton, Sean Russell, Harry Newman, Isaza Fa\u2019asuamaleaui, Luke Smith and Emarly Bitugane in the Perth Bears\u2019 inaugural 2027 squad; an emerging leadership group tasked with establishing the standards, values and foundations upon which the club\u2019s NRL franchise will be built.<\/p>\n
Perth Bears CEO Anthony De Ceglie said he was exceptionally proud of the roster the Football Department was putting together.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe philosophy from the outside has been to recruit the right people for the right reasons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Perth Bears want to be a family-orientated club that the State of Western Australia and North Sydney can be proud of.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is exactly the roster our Football Department under Head Coach Mal Meninga and General Manager David Sharpe is putting together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears are delighted to announce Tyran Wishart and Nick Meaney have agreed to join the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-403695","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\/403695","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=403695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}