{"id":654469,"date":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654469\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:11:11","slug":"former-nrl-utility-keen-on-a-return-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654469\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRL utility keen on a return to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of 2025 Tyson Smoothy<\/a> announced he would be joining Wakefield Trinity<\/a> on a three-year deal, considered a massive steal by the Super League<\/a> outfit.<\/p>\n

Following the announcement, Smoothy went on to have a breakout season in which he won a premiership with the Brisbane Broncos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The form has continued at Wakefield too, but the 26-year-old reportedly has no desire to see out the remainder of his contract.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Love Rugby League,\u00a0Smoothy’s family is keen to return to Australia<\/a>, and\u00a0the hooker has approached the club about an early release.<\/p>\n

It has also been reported Wakefield have no desire to let him go mid-season, but are not against severing ties at the season’s end.<\/p>\n

\"BrisbaneBRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 20: Tyson Smoothy in action during a Brisbane Broncos NRL training session at Suncorp Stadium on September 20, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Albert Perez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Prior to his move overseas, Smoothy had told the media he was keen on the new challenge and ready for something different.<\/p>\n

“It was just opportunity, really,” Smoothy said.<\/p>\n

“There’s always going to be challenges and other people who are fighting for positions, so it wasn’t feeling like I’ve been pushed out.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never even been over there, but I’ve heard so many good things about England <\/a>and the footy and how much they love it, so I will get to experience something different.”<\/p>\n

If he were to return to Australia<\/a> next season, it is a near certainty that he would be picked up by an NRL<\/a> club, with the Perth Bears<\/a> still after a hooker as just one option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the beginning of 2025 Tyson Smoothy announced he would be joining Wakefield Trinity on a three-year deal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-654469","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\/654469","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=654469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}