{"id":584400,"date":"2026-04-04T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:57:09","slug":"bombshell-dropped-on-perth-bears-as-secret-contract-clauses-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584400\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell dropped on Perth Bears as secret contract clauses revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Perth Bears<\/a> have been rocked by a contract revelation as they build for their first season in the NRL<\/a>, with three players no guarantee of seeing out their deals.<\/p>\n

The Bears currently have 16 signings for 2027, with 14 roster spots still to fill.<\/p>\n

The best of those players include Nick Meaney<\/a> (Melbourne Storm<\/a>), Siosifa Talakai<\/a> (Cronulla Sharks<\/a>), a number of Super League<\/a> players including former Bulldog Toby Sexton<\/a>, and the trio of Tyran Wishart<\/a> (Melbourne Storm<\/a>), Liam Henry<\/a> (Penrith Panthers<\/a>) and Josh Curran<\/a> (Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u00bb Perth Bears signing tracker<\/a><\/p>\n

News Corp has revealed the last three players on that list all have get out clauses in their contracts, more commonly known as player options.<\/p>\n

Wishart has signed the longest deal with the Bears – a five-year contract from 2027 through to the end of 2031 – but it has been revealed the final year is no guarantee, with Wishart having an option in his favour.<\/p>\n

The Bears do, however, get four confirmed years out of the emerging talent, who could play five-eighth or hooker in the Perth’s inaugural team.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear exactly what the club see him as at this stage, although it’s likely their current best halves combination is Wishart and Sexton<\/a>, who will join from the Catalans Dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bears are still believed to be in talks with other halves and do not yet have a specialist hooker on their roster for their first season.<\/p>\n

Henry<\/a>, who is set to lead the club’s forward pack after agreeing to leave the Penrith Panthers<\/a> and step out of the shadows created by Lindsay Smith<\/a> and Moses Leota<\/a>, is contracted through to the end of 2030 on a four-year deal.<\/p>\n

The final two years of that serve as an option in his favour though, so he may only play two years in the west.<\/p>\n

Henry is currently expected to be a starting prop alongside Mikolaj Oledzki<\/a>, with the club having missed other props since they could commence negotiations on November 1, including Tino Fa’asuamaleaui<\/a> who re-signed with the Gold Coast Titans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curran<\/a>, who is currently expected to start at lock but could play in the second-row or at prop, is the other player with an option in his favour.<\/p>\n

Signed until the end of 2029, only the first two seasons are locked in for the current Bulldogs forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Bears have been rocked by a contract revelation as they build for their first season in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-584400","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\/584400","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=584400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}