{"id":403777,"date":"2026-01-10T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403777\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T08:11:08","slug":"storm-duo-confirm-new-club-for-2027-on-long-term-deals-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403777\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm duo confirm new club for 2027 on long-term deals – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perth Bears<\/a> have landed a major blow on the recruitment market, signing both Tyran Wishart<\/a> and Nick Meaney<\/a> from the Melbourne Storm<\/a> on long-term deals.<\/p>\n

The duo are players nine and ten for the Bears, who have previously locked up the services of Emarly Bitungane<\/a>, Josh Curran<\/a>, Iszac Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a>, Liam Henry<\/a>, Harry Newman<\/a>, Sean Russell<\/a>, Toby Sexton<\/a> and Luke Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two latest players both come out of a winning system and are set to join Perth for the long haul, with Wishart signing a five-year deal to the end of 2031, and Meaney a three-year contract until the end of 2029.<\/p>\n

Perth Bears signing tracker<\/a><\/p>\n

Wishart, who will likely form the club’s first halves combination alongside Toby Sexton<\/a>, said he was looking forward to heading west.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see this is an opportunity to continue to evolve my game and be a part of something special for the NRL<\/a> and sport in our country,” the utility said in a club statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is already so much buzz about the Perth Bears<\/a> and I’m excited to have the opportunity to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meaney meanwhile has become something of Melbourne’s Mr. Fix It during his time in the Victorian capital, and could play a similar role for Mal Meninga<\/a> in Perth, with the back able to play anywhere between one and seven.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Perth Bears<\/a> provide a unique chance for my family and I to move to Western Australia<\/a> and be a part of a new club that is essentially starting from scratch,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s 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’ll be ready to go for the Bears.”<\/p>\n

Meaney is also likely to be the club’s first goal-kicker.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time Melbourne have been raided by an expansion club, with the Dolphins<\/a> doing the same ahead of their inaugural season when they signed all of Jesse Bromwich<\/a>, Kenneath Bromwich<\/a> and Felise Kaufusi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wishart and Meaney will link up with the Bears for the start of the club’s inaugural pre-season in November after finishing their time with the Storm.<\/p>\n

Melbourne will also now actively head to the free agency market in pursuing replacements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears have landed a major blow on the recruitment market, signing both Tyran Wishart and Nick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-403777","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\/403777","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=403777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}